Feature Comics #79 Mile High pedigree (Quality, 1944) Condition: NM. Al Bryant drew more Doll Man stories than anyone, and t...

Record Price at Heritage Auctions: $537.75

Sold: Sep 9, 2006

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Publisher: Quality Comics, 1944

About Feature Comics #79

Doll Man cover by Al Bryant. Rudy Palais art.

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COVER DETAILS

Title: The Little Luck God!

Characters: Doll Man [Darrel Dane]; Blimpy [Rufus Rastas Sassafrass O'Brain] (inset); Rusty Ryan (inset); Mickey Finn (inset); Lala Palooza (inset)

Pencils: Al Bryant (signed)

Inks: Al Bryant (signed)

STORY DETAILS

(14 Stories)

Title: The Little Luck God

Characters: Doll Man [Darrel Dane]; Anson Mull (villain); Wayne Tyler (framed of murder); Pug Shuman (blackmailer); Martha Roberts

Synopsis: The superstitious Anson Mull has bought the Little Luck God to be able to conquer everything by good luck.

Pages: 13.000

Pencils: Mort Leav

Notes: Originally credited "Al Bryant?", but this is Mort Leav; he is identified by his lively faces and figures and by his large hands.

Characters: Butch; Boss Jefferson Bangs; doctor

Synopsis: Boss decides to give clown Butch a raise because his fan mail proves he's popular. Until Butch is diagnosed with writer's cramp...

Pages: 1.000

Script: Bernard Dibble

Pencils: Bernard Dibble

Inks: Bernard Dibble

Characters: Blimpy [aka Rufus Rastas Sassafrass O'Brain]

Synopsis: Blimpy ventures out into outer space to other planets and is view as "rather strange looking".

Pages: 7.000

Pencils: Tony DiPreta (signed)

Inks: Tony DiPreta (signed)

Notes: DiPreta script credit removed by Craig Delich. DiPreta did very little writing in his career that is documented and it is very unlikely that he wrote this feature.

Characters: Spin Shaw [Capt. S. R. "Spin" Shaw]

Synopsis: Spin Shaw finds a tribe of New Guinea head-hunters.

Pages: 5.000

Pencils: Bill Quackenbush

Inks: Bill Quackenbush ?

Notes: A few heads in 3/4 backview with the jawbone going back behind the ear could point to Irving Tirman, but the many short figures and narrow heads in sideview look more like Quackenbush.

Characters: Rusty Ryan; The Boyville Brigadiers [Pierpont Lee; Alababa]

Synopsis: Both American and Japanese survivors get ashore on the same Pacific island.

Pages: 7.000

Pencils: Mort Leav

Notes: Art is by Mort Leav, with his large hands, lively figures and a special crouching way of running, with thighs lifted high.

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CGC Census Report*

Grade	NG	PG	CVR	0.5	1.0	1.5	1.8	2.0	2.5	3.0	3.5	4.0	4.5	5.0	5.5	6.0	6.5	7.0	7.5	8.0	8.5	9.0	9.2	9.4	9.6	9.8	9.9	10.0	Total
Universal	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1
Qualified	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Signature Series	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
CGCxJSA	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Restored	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Total	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1

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