Feature Comics #84

Feature Comics #84 (January 1945) puts the pint-sized powerhouse Doll Man front and center in a genuinely tense cover by Al Bryant — the tiny hero is shown straining against ropes while trapped inside a rapidly filling container, a massive brick bearing down as water churns around him. The cover announces his clash with the Masked Rider in "Death Goes to the Rodeo!," and the sheer peril of the scene makes it hard not to want to flip straight to the story. Rounding out this jam-packed Quality Comics anthology are portrait boxes teasing a roster of characters — Poison Ivy, Spin Shaw, Mickey Finn, Perky, Big Top, Lala Palooza, Swing Sisson, Rusty Ryan, and Blimpy — promising plenty of variety beyond Doll Man's deathtrap dilemma.