Feature Comics #85
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeThis 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.
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."
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.
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.
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