Feature Comics #53

This February 1942 anthology from Quality Comics packs a roster of characters — The Doll Man, Samar, Mickey Finn, and Spin Shaw among them — into one ten-cent package, with portrait medallions along the top and left edge previewing even more features like Zero, Poison Ivy, Reynolds of the Mounted, Bruce Blackburn, Big Top, and Rusty Ryan. John Devlin's cover art delivers the laughs with a rotund soldier squeezed into a personal wearable tank labeled "T-483," cheerfully boasting to a wide-eyed woman in red, "They couldn't squeeze me in a tank, Lala — so they built one around me!!" Inside, Reed Crandall illustrates William Erwin Maxwell's "Skies Afire," promising aerial adventure to match the cover's warmly comic spirit.