Feature Comics Vol 1 67

"Doll Man: "The Ugliest Man in the World"": Matinee idol Frank Rollins, on his way to propose to stage actress Mary Black, has a car crash which nearly kills him and leaves him disfigured, beyond the ability of plastic surgery to help. He flees the hospital, and holes up in a dumpy room, formin

Doll Man: "The Ugliest Man in the World"
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May, 1943
Publisher	Quality Comics
Executive Editor	Gill Fox
Cover Artists	Gill Fox
Doll Man: "The Ugliest Man in the World"
Pencilers	Rudy Palais
Inkers	Rudy Palais
Spider Widow: "The Will of Jacob Pendergast"
Writers	Frank Borth
Pencilers	Frank Borth
Inkers	Frank Borth
Rusty Ryan: "Learn Commando Tactics"
Writers	Paul Gustavson
Pencilers	Paul Gustavson
Inkers	Paul Gustavson
Previous Issue	Feature Comics # 66
Next Issue	Feature Comics # 68

What I'd like to know is ... who taught these natives 'In Der Fuhrer's Face'?

—Rusty Ryan

Feature Comics #67 is an issue of the series [[{{{Title}}} Vol {{{Volume}}}|{{{Title}}} (Volume {{{)]] with a cover date of May, 1943.

Synopsis for Doll Man: "The Ugliest Man in the World"

Matinee idol Frank Rollins, on his way to propose to stage actress Mary Black, has a car crash which nearly kills him and leaves him disfigured, beyond the ability of plastic surgery to help. He flees the hospital, and holes up in a dumpy room, forming a terrible obsession to destroy everything that's beautiful, and fixating on Mary Blake. At one night's performance of Mary's play, Frank leaps on to the stage and attacks both Mary and her leading man, actor Don Ryan, with a knife. Darrel Dane and Martha Roberts are attending this show; Darrel gets small and leaps to the rescue as Doll Man, using a snare drum as a trampoline to jump into the fight. He's winning, until Frank smacks him with a framed mirror, which seems to stun him for a moment despite his astonishing strength. Police charge into the theater but Rollins slips away. Doll Man races back to his box seat before Martha figures out why he's missing (*).

• Oddly, Martha and Darrel are acting as if Martha doesn't know Darrel's double identity, but she's definitely seen Doll Man up close (see Feature Comics #48, p.4), and her dad Professor Roberts definitely knows the score (see Feature Comics #36, p.3, and many other examples).
  

Appearing in Doll Man: "The Ugliest Man in the World"

Featured Characters:

• Doll Man

Supporting Characters:

• Mary Blake

Villains:

• Ugly Man (First appearance)

Other Characters:

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Vehicles:

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Synopsis for Spider Widow: "The Will of Jacob Pendergast"

Bizarre circumstances force the Raven to reveal his true identity. Dianne's Uncle John had become the executor of his friend's considerable fortune, and the will required that four random people would have to compete for that fortune. One of these, Miss Withington, killed one of the other four and moved to attack Dianne when she discovered that she was the Spider Widow. Another one of the four, Tony Grey, finally put a stop to Miss Withington's scheme.....as the Raven!

Appearing in Spider Widow: "The Will of Jacob Pendergast"

Featured Characters:

• Spider Widow

Supporting Characters:

• Raven

Villains:

• Miss Withington

Other Characters:

• Mr. Sivalus
• Mr. Bagert

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Vehicles:

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Synopsis for Rusty Ryan: "Learn Commando Tactics"

In the alleys of a city in northern Africa, Rusty and the Boyville Brigade encounter Pierpont Lee, a fellow young American man, and the Baron, a large and dangerous German officer, with a darkened monocle. The Baron immediately gets into a fistfight with Rusty, and is winning it until Rusty exerts some jiu-jitsu-looking "commando tactics" on him. But the Baron calls in a squad of Nazi soldiers, who capture all of the Brigadiers; Pierpont escapes. Just then the Baron's orderly runs onto the scene with disturbing news: in the city square a group of Arab men are singing Spike Jones's "Der Fuhrer's Face." It takes the Baron a few seconds to catch on but then he flips out and orders his troops to shoot into the crowd with submachine guns. The Boyville boys capitalize on their momentary lapse in attention and resume their hand-to-hand fighting, deploying more commando tactics on the well-armed Germans. Then the local Arabs pull some big knives from under their robes and also join the fight. It soon turns out that the locals learned this song from Pierpont Lee, who now joins up with the Boyville Brigadiers.

• Rusty and the Boyville Brigadiers' uniforms, from the neck down, are almost a stitch-for-stitch copy of Captain America's, only with jodphurs instead of tights.
• Pierpont Lee is an early-1940s comic-book young black man, with an extremely unfortunate speech pattern, a two-foot-long harmonica, and a truly amazing zoot suit.
  

Appearing in Rusty Ryan: "Learn Commando Tactics"

Featured Characters:

• Rusty Ryan

Supporting Characters:

• the Boyville Brigade (four guys)
• Pierpont Lee

Villains:

• The Baron

Other Characters:

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Locations:

• North Africa

Items:

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Vehicles:

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Notes

• Also featured in this issue of Feature Comics were:
  • Mickey Finn: (No Title), by Lank Leonard
  • Swing Sisson: (The Extortionists and the Ape), by Phil Martin
  • Inferior Man: (War Against a Fan), by Al Stahl
    • Inferior Man leaps out of the page and fights a fanboy!
  • Lala Palooza: (No Title), by Bernard Dibble
  • Spin Shaw: (Plans for General Dwight), by Bob Powell
    • Spin wins the Navy Medal of Honor.
  • Zero: (Spirit of the Elemental), by Toni Blum & Witmer Williams
  • Blimpy: (Hobo's Paradise), by Sy Reit & Al Stahl

See Also

• [[:Category:{{{Title}}} Vol {{{Volume}}}|Cover gallery for the Feature Comics series]]
• Images from Feature Comics Vol 1 67

Links and References

• Feature Comics #67 entire issue
• Feature Comics #67 index entry
• Feature Comics #67 Rusty Ryan spoilers