Digital Comic Museum - Feature Comics 059 (paper)


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Issue: #59
Published: August 1942, Price: 0.10 USD, Pages: 68, Editing: Gill Fox
Color: Color Dimensions: Standard Golden Age US Paper Stock: Glossy Cover; Newsprint Interior Binding: Saddle-stitched Publishing Format: Was On-going Series
Notes: The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1943, New Series, Vol. 38, No. 2.

Comic Contents:

Cover (1 page)
Featuring:	Mickey Finn
Credits:	Pencils: Lank Leonard ? \| Inks: Lank Leonard ?
Genre:	Humor
Characters:	Mickey Finn The Doll Man [Darrel Dane] (inset) Samar (inset) Spin Shaw (inset) Lala Palooza (inset) Fargo Kid (inset) Rusty Ryan (inset) Swing Sisson (inset) Reynolds Of The Mounties (inset) Zero (inset) Poison Ivy (inset)

Comic Story (11 pages)	The Human Manikins
Featuring:	Doll Man
Synopsis:	Martha is kidnapped by De Swank, who owns a department store in which he turns women into lifelike manikins with a serum he intends to sell to Fifth Columnists.
Credits:	Script: ? [as William Erwin Maxwell] (signed) \| Pencils: Reed Crandall \| Inks: Reed Crandall
Genre:	Superhero
Characters:	Doll Man [Darrel Dane] De Swank (villain, Introduction) Samson (villain, Introduction) Von Frolica (villain, Introduction) Un-named Nazi Spies (villains, Introduction For All)

Comic Story (5 pages)
Featuring:	Mickey Finn
Credits:	Script: Lank Leonard \| Pencils: Lank Leonard \| Inks: Lank Leonard
Genre:	Humor

Comic Story (5 pages)	The Caretaker's Ghost
Featuring:	Zero, Ghost Detective
Credits:	Script: Toni Blum \| Pencils: Al Bryant \| Inks: Al Bryant
Genre:	Detective-mystery
Characters:	Zero Jim (introduction) Rick Williams (introduction) A Caretaker's Ghost (villain, Introduction, Death)

Comic Story (1 page)
Featuring:	Big Top
Credits:	Pencils: Bernard Dibble \| Inks: Bernard Dibble
Genre:	Humor

Comic Story (5 pages)	Jungle Storm
Featuring:	Samar
Synopsis:	Samar comes upon a man and woman being attacked by a giant gorilla upon returning to civilization from a gem expedition and saves their lives. But treachery strikes Samar and he goes on the trail of Bill who has forcibly taken the girl. Samar saves both from an elephant stampede and they reunite with Frank and all is well.
Credits:	Script: ? [as John Charles] (credited) \| Pencils: Rafael Astarita \| Inks: Rafael Astarita
Genre:	Jungle
Characters:	Samar Frank (introduction) Jane (introduction) Bill (villain, Introduction, Reforms)

Comic Story (4 pages)	The Great Ghost Herd
Featuring:	Fargo Kid
Credits:	Pencils: Alex Koda \| Inks: Alex Koda
Characters:	The Fargo Kid [Tim Turner] The "Hooded Murderer" And His Gang (first Appearance Villains)

Comic Story (2 pages)
Featuring:	Lala Palooza
Credits:	Pencils: Bernard Dibble \| Inks: Bernard Dibble
Genre:	Humor
Characters:	Lala Palooza

Comic Story (6 pages)	Jack Traxe's Leveraged Buyout
Featuring:	Swing Sisson
Credits:	Script: Phil Martin \| Pencils: Phil Martin \| Inks: Phil Martin
Genre:	Humor Detective-mystery
Characters:	Swing Sisson Jack Traxe (first Appearance Villain) Butcher (first Appearance Eddie (first Appearance

Comic Story (1 page)	The Stepfather's Comeuppance
Featuring:	Poison Ivy
Credits:	Script: Gill Fox \| Pencils: Gill Fox \| Inks: Gill Fox
Genre:	Humor
Characters:	Poison Ivy

Comic Story (5 pages)	The Ghost Ship
Featuring:	Reynolds of the Mounted
Credits:	Pencils: Art Pinajian \| Inks: Art Pinajian
Genre:	Western-frontier
Characters:	Sgt. Jim Reynolds, RCMP Flatfoot A Gang Of Spies (first Appearance Villains)

Comic Story (6 pages)	The Japanese Transformation Drug
Featuring:	Rusty Ryan and the Boyville Brigadiers
Credits:	Script: Paul Gustavson \| Pencils: Paul Gustavson \| Inks: Paul Gustavson \| Letters: Paul Gustavson
Genre:	Adventure Children Spy
Characters:	Rusty Ryan The Boyville Brigadiers [Smiley Scott Ed Whitey Scotty Moi Yutong] Ellen Drew (introduction) An Army Intelligence Agent (introduction) Man Of A Thousand Faces (introduction, Death) The Black Dragon Society (villains, Some Die) Hitasu (villain, Introduction, Death)

Text Story (2 pages)	Out of the Depths
Featuring:	Perry Scott
Credits:	Script: Robert M. Hyatt ? \| Letters: typeset
Genre:	Adventure
Characters:	Perry Scott

Comic Story (1 page)
Featuring:	Homer Doodle and Son
Credits:	Script: Arthur Beeman \| Pencils: Arthur Beeman \| Inks: Arthur Beeman
Genre:	Humor

Comic Story (5 pages)
Featuring:	The Spider Widow, Grandmother of Terror
Synopsis:	Spider Widow investigates a series of mysterious but fatal accidents at the local circus, and discovers the owner, dressed as a clown, is responsible. It seems he owed his performers two years back wages, and, because he couldn't pay them off (and was going to lose ownership of the circus), he decided to murder the acts one at a time!
Credits:	Script: Frank Borth [as Frank M. Borth] (signed) \| Pencils: Frank Borth [as Frank M. Borth] (signed) \| Inks: Frank Borth [as Frank M. Borth] (signed)
Genre:	Superhero
Characters:	The Spider Widow [Dianne Grayton] Bob J. P. Darbun (villain, Introduction)

Comic Story (5 pages)	The General's Daughter
Featuring:	Spin Shaw
Credits:	Pencils: Witmer Williams [as Clark Williams] (signed) \| Inks: Witmer Williams [as Clark Williams] (signed)
Genre:	Aviation
Characters:	Spin Shaw [Capt. S. R. "Spin" Shaw] Gen. T. F. Langer (introduction) Ellen Langer (introduction) The Japanese (villains)

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