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Feature Comics #85

Feb 1945 · Quality Comics · 0.10 USD
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This anthology issue contains "The Doll Man," in which the protagonist battles a lion that has escaped from a circus cage, and "Spin Shaw," featuring a U.S. Navy pilot assigned to fly a dangerous bombing mission against Port Satsuma, a major Japanese naval base between Truk and Tokyo. The issue also includes a story involving Larry Lake and his band at the Swan Lake Club, where a conflict erupts over a blackmailing musician and a planned performance at the Camel Hotel.

Contains 10 stories
The King of Beasts
13 pp · Superhero
Doll Man [Darrel Dane]King (villain, introduction, death)King's gang (villains, introduction)

When a rampaging gorilla named Congo breaks loose at the city zoo, Darrel Dane transforms into the diminutive powerhouse Doll Man to stop the beast—but his intervention catches the attention of King, the zoo's sinister curator with the ability to hypnotize and command animals. Realizing that Doll Man is protecting Darrel Dane, King hatches a scheme to eliminate them both and uses his hypnotic powers to kidnap Martha Roberts and lure the tiny hero into a trap. Doll Man must outwit a villain who controls the very creatures around him if he's to save his fiancée and expose King's plans for what he calls "the greatest looting in history."

Untitled Humor story
2 pp · Humor
Allura and the Rising Suns
7 pp · Adventure, Children, Spy
Rusty RyanThe Boyville Brigadiers [AlababaPierpont Lee]Allura (villain, introduction)the Rising Suns (villains, introduction for all)
Untitled Humor story
4 pp · Humor
Untitled Humor story
3 pp · Humor
The Musician of Crime
6 pp · Humor, Detective-Mystery
Swing SissonThe Musician [Larry Lake] (first appearancevillaindeath)
In Toy Land
6 pp · Fantasy
PerkyLucy (first appearancea paper doll)Hortense (first appearancea male toy soldier)

When Perky finds himself stranded in the whimsical world of Toy Land, he stumbles upon Lucy, a paper doll in tears over a broken promise from a toy soldier named Hortense—who vanished on their wedding day. Armed with his quick wit and a dash of toy-store scheming, Perky sets out to reunite the pair, navigating encounters with talking dolls, a conniving teddy bear, and a suspicious tin soldier. What begins as a rescue mission spins into an unexpectedly heartwarming—and chaotic—adventure through a world where bubble gum cannons and magical keys solve problems in the strangest ways.

The Balloon Flight
1 pp · Humor
Poison IvyProf. Wiphill (first appearance)
Mission to Port Satsuma
5 pp · Aviation
Spin Shaw [Capt. S. R. "Spin" Shaw]Sultan of Kowkow (first appearance)The Japanese (villains)
Twerlin the Sorcerer
7 pp · Humor
Blimpy [aka Rufus Rastas Sassafrass O'Brain]Miss Vanderworth (introduction)Twerlin the Sorcerer (villain)The Fraternity of Crime (villains, introduction for all)

When Blimpy accidentally swallows a mysterious purple chemical that was meant for the villainous sorcerer Twerlin's magical brew, he gains unexpected superhuman strength—but the magical effects keep shifting in unpredictable ways. Caught between a scheming sorcerer, members of the Fraternity of Crime, and a kidnapped heiress named Miss Vanderworth, Blimpy must navigate the chaos of a mountaintop tower while the unstable chemical's power plays tricks on him at every turn. It's a rollicking ride of magical mishaps and mistaken identities in this 1945 humor tale.

ComicBooks.com Value

Our Model is In Beta
Raw (Good) $26
CGC 9.6 · 1 in census $1,390
CGC 9.4 none in existence
CGC 9.2 none in existence
CGC 9.0 none in existence
CGC 8.5 none in existence
CGC 8.0 · 2 in census $227
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CGC 7.5 none in existence
CGC 7.0 · 1 in census $151*
CGC 6.5 none in existence
CGC 6.0 none in existence
CGC 5.5 none in existence
CGC 5.0 none in existence
CGC 4.5 none in existence
CGC 4.0 · 1 in census $36*
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Full credits

artist, inker Dan Zolnerowich
cover pencils, inks Al Bryant

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