Feature Funnies #1 is an issue of the series Feature Funnies (Volume 1) with a cover date of October, 1937.
Synopsis for "Joe Palooka"
(newspaper strip reprints)
Appearing in "Joe Palooka"
Featured Characters:
- Joe Palooka
Supporting Characters:
- Knobby Walsh
Synopsis for "Jane Arden"
(newspaper strip reprints)
Appearing in "Jane Arden"
Featured Characters:
- Jane Arden
Synopsis for "Mickey Finn"
(newspaper strip reprints)
Appearing in "Mickey Finn"
Featured Characters:
- Mickey Finn
Supporting Characters:
- Uncle Phil
Synopsis for "Lala Palooza"
(newspaper strip reprints)
Appearing in "Lala Palooza"
Featured Characters:
- Lala Palooza
Supporting Characters:
- Vincent Palooza
Synopsis for Slim and Tubby: "Episode 1"
(newspaper strip reprints)
Appearing in Slim and Tubby: "Episode 1"
Featured Characters:
- Slim
- Tubby
Synopsis for "Crack Casey"
Appearing in "Crack Casey"
Featured Characters:
- Crack Casey (Single appearance)
Synopsis for "Ned Brant"
(newspaper strip reprints)
Appearing in "Ned Brant"
Featured Characters:
- Ned Brant
Synopsis for Big Top: "Episode 1"
(newspaper strip reprints)
Appearing in Big Top: "Episode 1"
- Appearances not yet listed
Synopsis for "Dixie Dugan"
(newspaper strip reprints)
Appearing in "Dixie Dugan"
Featured Characters:
- Dixie Dugan
Synopsis for "The Bungle Family"
(newspaper strip reprints)
Appearing in "The Bungle Family"
Featured Characters:
- Bungle Family
Synopsis for Jim Swift: "The Marion Joyce Kidnapping: Part 1"
(newspaper strip reprints)
Appearing in Jim Swift: "The Marion Joyce Kidnapping: Part 1"
Featured Characters:
- Jim Swift
Other Characters:
- Marion Joyce
Notes
- Published monthly by Comic Favorites, Inc., this is the first comic book from Quality Comics. It is almost all newspaper comic strip reprints.
- The only original character is Crack Casey, making him the first Quality character. However, this feature does not return next issue, or ever.
- The Jim Swift story is a comic-strip reprint (you can tell by the way it is formatted), but no record of a Jim Swift comic strip can be found. It is possible the Jim Swift story was made from samples of an unsold comic strip by Ed Cronin. If that is the case, Jim Swift may be a Quality character too (or he may belong to Ed Cronin). Either way, the Jim Swift series ran from this issue until Feature Funnies #6, then vanished.
Trivia
- Also featured in this issue of Feature Comics were:
- "Fisher's History of Boxing" by Ham Fisher, running across the top 1/5 of all 4 of his Joe Palooka pages.
- Flossie by Al Zere
- Good Deed Dotty by J.P. McEvoy and J.H. Striebel, running across the top 1/5 of all 4 of their Dixie Dugan pages.
- Jane Arden by Monte Barrett and Russell E. Ross appears in four consecutive one-page episodes.
- Lena Pry by Monte Barrett and Russell E. Ross appears in one one-page story.
- "Little Brother" by H.J. Tuthill, running across the top 1/5 of all 4 of his Bungle Family pages.
- Modern 'Planes: "Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress" by Les Marshall
- Modern 'Planes: "North American XO-47" experimental observation plane by Les Marshall
- Nippie ("He's Often Wrong") by Lank Leonard, running across the top 1/5 of all 4 of his Mickey Finn pages.
- Off Side by Jo Metzer
- Off The Record (gag cartoons) by Ed Reed appears in four places in this issue.
- Pirates Ahoy (text story) by Charles B. Driscoll
- Puzzle Phun: "Gretchen in Puzzle Town" by Don DeConn
- Puzzle Phun: "Welcome Again to Puzzle Town" by Don DeConn
- Star Snapshots: Marlene Dietrich, by Bernard Baily
- Star Snapshots: Robert Taylor, by Bernard Baily
- Strange As It Seems "The Battle of Sacred Songs", by John Hix
- Strange As It Seems "The Leaning Tower of San Diego", by John Hix
- They're Still Talking: "...About Brick Muller's 70-Yard Pass For a Rose Bowl Touchdown" by Bob Zuppke & R.W. Depew
- They're Still Talking: "...About How Rockne and Dorais Beat the Army With Passes and a 'Limp.'" by Bob Zuppke & R.W. Depew
- Toddy by George Marcoux
See Also