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Doll Man #44

Feb 1953 · Quality Comics · 0.10 USD
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# Doll Man #44 (February 1953) The issue contains two main stories. In "Who Can Stop the Radioactive Man?", Doll Man confronts a villain in a radiation suit who steals uranium and attacks with dangerous force, with Doll Man battling the criminal and his henchmen. In "The Raiser of the Dead!", scientist Darrel Dane's fiancée Martha Roberts attends a spiritualist séance featuring a fake medium named Yogi who claims to contact the dead; when the Governor requests Darrel's help to expose criminals through the medium's supposed supernatural abilities, Darrel must unmask the fraud and protect the state's list of suggested convicts from falling into criminal hands.

Contains 4 stories
Radioactive Man
10 pp · Superhero
Doll Man [Darrel Dane]Doll Girl [Martha Roberts]Radioactive Man [Harvey Kane] (villain, introduction, death)

Doll Man and Doll Girl spring into action when a suspected spy named Harvey Kane is caught infiltrating an experimental atomic facility—but Kane plants a bomb and escapes, only to suffer a catastrophic radiation exposure that transforms him into a walking atom bomb. Now calling himself Radioactive Man, the desperate villain sets his sights on sabotaging an atom-powered locomotive carrying the world's most important figures, forcing the World's Mightiest Mites into a battle against their most lethal foe yet.

Look Your Best in the West
4 pp · Humor
Torchy ToddTessTwo crooks (first appearancevillains)

Torchy Todd and her friend Tess get trapped in M.H. Racy's Department Store after a stuck zipper during a Western outfit fitting keeps them past closing time—and when two crooks arrive planning a jewelry heist, the pair must find a way to outsmart them without being detected. With Tess playing it cool as a mannequin and Torchy ready to lasso trouble, this humorous Western-themed caper proves that sometimes the best way to look your best is to stay one step ahead of the bad guys.

The Raiser of the Dead
7 pp · Superhero
Doll Man [Darrel Dane]Doll Girl [Martha Roberts]Yogi [Thomas Turb] (villain, introduction)Yogi's gang (villains, introduction for all)

When Darrel Dane attends a spiritualist performance by the charlatan Yogi the Medium, he's outraged by the exploitation of grieving war families—and challenges the phony to raise his supposedly fallen brother. The scheme backfires when Yogi's gang tries to eliminate Doll Man and Doll Girl, forcing the diminutive duo to shrink and infiltrate the medium's operation. As they close in on Yogi's true identity and criminal operation, they're about to uncover far darker secrets than simple fraud.

Wanted, Darrel Dane
7 pp · Superhero
Doll Man [Darrel Dane]Doll Girl [Martha Roberts]The Mask (villain, introduction)The Mask Gang [Joe RykerEd Ryker] (villains, introduction for both)

Darrel Dane's generous offer to train reformed convicts in his laboratory becomes a nightmare when The Mask and his gang kidnap him and forge documents to spring a dozen dangerous criminals—including Ed Ryker—from prison. Now, as Doll Man, Dane must clear his name and stop the escaped convicts from using his identity and resources to run their extortion racket against construction companies, all while proving his alter ego innocent of the betrayal.

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Raw (Good) $100
CGC 8.5 · 1 in census $1,794
CGC 8.0 none in existence
CGC 7.5 · 1 in census $1,080
CGC 7.0 none in existence
CGC 6.5 · 2 in census $753*
CGC 6.0 · 2 in census $651*
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CGC 5.5 · 1 in census $547*
CGC 5.0 · 1 in census $520*
CGC 4.5 none in existence
CGC 4.0 none in existence
CGC 3.5 none in existence
CGC 3.0 · 3 in census $305*
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Full credits

artist, inker Frank Bolle
cover pencils, inks Dan Zolnerowich

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