Feature Comics #129

When Darrel Dane arrives to pick up his girlfriend Martha, he's intercepted by Sarida Tromm, a desperate young woman fleeing for her life from a mysterious villain called the Vulture—a man she believes murdered her father and brother. As the Doll Man, Darrel tracks the killer to a hidden lair concealed behind a seemingly solid wall, where the Vulture's sinister plan and his connection to Sarida's family fortune are finally revealed.

A penniless job-seeker named Blimpy answers a help-wanted ad and unexpectedly lands a plum executive position at Ajax Company—but there's a catch: the president is counting on him to take over immediately so he can spend his afternoons fishing. When Blimpy must handle a tough business rival by consulting his self-help book "How To Get a Job and Hold It," he discovers that decisive action (and a few choice insults) are exactly what the situation calls for, earning him an impressive salary—until complications arise at home.

When Swing Sisson and his pal Toby take a society gig playing music at a swanky kid's party, they don't expect to run into Babyface Boodle—a small-time crook who's hidden a stolen diamond necklace in Toby's trumpet case and plans to retrieve it under cover of the masked celebration. As the evening unfolds, Swing and Toby find themselves tangled up in a chase that leads straight to the police station, forcing them to come clean about what really happened at the party.

In this 1948 humor tale from Feature Comics #129, Lala quickly improvises a lie to shoo away a persistent salesman, claiming Vincent is the boss of the household. But when Vincent unexpectedly starts playing along with the role, Lala finds herself needing to remind him who’s really in charge.

Rusty Ryan and the Boyville Brigadiers set out to stop the hypnotist villain Shamash the Terrible, who's been bending townspeople to his will and forcing them to commit robbery. When two hypnotized victims attack the group, the friends realize they're dealing with a dangerous criminal operation and hatch a plan to bring the band of bandits to justice. It's a classic adventure where wits and courage take on a powerful, conniving villain.

When Perky stumbles into the strange realm of Fat and Thin Land—a world split between two extremes—he volunteers as a dietician to solve the kingdom's peculiar problem: make the enormously fat king slim and the impossibly thin king plump. Armed with an arsenal of specialized reduction and fattening pills, Perky concocts what seems like a foolproof plan, but his calculations go wildly awry when the two kings sneak midnight snacks and mix up the doses. What begins as a well-intentioned mission to restore balance spirals into comedic chaos as the kings end up looking worse than ever.

Shenanigan gets the case of the Society Safecracker but ends up partnered with Helen Highwater, a fellow officer who's determined to prove her detective skills—and pull her weight on his investigation. When Helen goes undercover as a cook in a wealthy household to trap the thief, her clever detective work points to Dr. Hyde, the prominent family physician, who's been using an unconventional method to crack safes. The trap is set, and it all comes down to whether Helen and Shenanigan can catch their suspect in the act.