Spectacular Features Magazine #1
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join free# Samson and Delilah The strong man Samson is seduced by the beautiful Delilah, who uses her wiles to discover the secret of his strength lies in his uncut hair. After she betrays him to the Philistines, they capture and blind him. Samson is enslaved and forced to labor in a temple, but his hair grows back, restoring his power. In a final act of vengeance, he pushes down the temple pillars, destroying the Philistines and dying alongside his beloved Delilah in the collapse.
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Trivia · 8 facts
- The series carries no issue numbered #1; the run begins at #11, with numbering continuing directly from My Confession #10 (Fox, 1949 series), which was itself formerly Western True Crime.
- The first issue of the run — #11 — was published in April 1950 by Fox Feature Syndicate and presented a Bible-themed story: an adaptation of the Samson and Delilah narrative, along with a text story based on Daniel in the Lion's Den.
- Issue #12 shifted the title's genre entirely, adapting the Battle of Iwo Jima in comics form; its cover reproduces the famous Joe Rosenthal photograph of the flag-raising, and the issue also includes a biography of Robert Louis Stevenson.
- Issue #13, the final issue of the series, pivoted again to crime fiction, featuring stories about real-life gangster Lucky Luciano and other criminal figures — a format Fox used across many of its late titles.
- The series ran for only three issues (#11–13) in 1950, all published as 32-page, full-color comics at a cover price of ten cents.
- The title's genre shifted three times across just three issues — from biblical/religious, to war history, to crime — making it one of the more extreme examples of mid-run editorial repositioning in the Golden Age.
- Fox Feature Syndicate filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in July 1950, the same year all three issues of Spectacular Features Magazine were published, placing the entire run within the company's terminal phase.
- The series has no documented key first appearances of original characters and carries no creative credits widely attributed to named individuals across available sources — credits are listed as 'Various' in aggregator databases.
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