Feature Comics #124

From Quality Comics' long-running anthology comes this July 1948 entry spotlighting the mighty-but-miniature Doll Man, shown on the cover bound with thick rope and pressed against what appears to be a clothes iron — a household object turned instrument of danger when you're only a few inches tall. The cover headline promises that "Death Comes in a Black Box," setting an ominously dramatic tone that contrasts wonderfully with the surrounding portrait boxes of the title's lighter-hearted characters — Swing Sisson, Poison Ivy, Big Top, Roscoe, Shenanigan, Perky, Lala Palooza, Blimpy, and Rusty Ryan — reminding readers just how wide a variety of strips this anthology had to offer. Alex Kotzky's cover work captures the peril with crisp, confident linework that makes this a fine snapshot of Quality Comics' late-1940s output.