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"Mickey Finn": (newspaper strip reprints)

Quote1 Never mind your jaw, are you going to write out a confession, or do I go to work on you again? Quote2
The Clock

Feature Funnies #11 is an issue of the series Feature Funnies (Volume 1) with a cover date of August, 1938.

Synopsis for "Mickey Finn"

(newspaper strip reprints)

Appearing in "Mickey Finn"

Featured Characters:

  • Mickey Finn

Supporting Characters:

  • Uncle Phil

Synopsis for "Dixie Dugan"

(newspaper strip reprints)

Appearing in "Dixie Dugan"

Featured Characters:

  • Dixie Dugan

Synopsis for "Hawks of the Seas"

(reprints from the British comic Wags)

Appearing in "Hawks of the Seas"

Featured Characters:

  • The Hawk

Supporting Characters:

  • Fluth
  • Sagua
  • Isaac Bogg

Antagonists:

  • Chieko
  • Merrystone
    • Slave Dealers
  • Carlos

Other Characters:

  • several dozen African slaves

Locations:

  • Inagua Bay

Vehicles:

  • Hawk's pirate ship
  • Merrystone's slave ship

Synopsis for "Ned Brant"

(newspaper strip reprints)

Appearing in "Ned Brant"

Featured Characters:

  • Ned Brant

Synopsis for "Big Top"

(newspaper strip reprints)

Appearing in "Big Top"

  • Appearances not yet listed

Synopsis for "Jane Arden // Lena Pry"

(newspaper strip reprints)

Appearing in "Jane Arden // Lena Pry"

Featured Characters:

  • Jane Arden
  • Lena Pry (See Notes.)

Synopsis for The Clock Strikes!: "Silk Basso Frames the Clock"

Silk Basso, gangland's ruler, frames The Clock for the robbery/murder of wealthy real estate broker Tyrone Carron, by printing up some fake copies of his calling cards, and leaving two at the scene of the deadly burglary. He also sets up a deadly trap in his own home, in case of a visit from The Clock, but fatally ends up triggering it himself. The Clock then beats a written confession out of henchman Muscles Mully, and calls in Captain Kane.

Appearing in The Clock Strikes!: "Silk Basso Frames the Clock"

Featured Characters:

Supporting Characters:

  • Captain Kane

Antagonists:

  • Silk Basso
  • Muscles Mulloy

Other Characters:

  • Doyle, a police detective

Locations:

Items:

  • Clock calling cards

Synopsis for "Gallant Knight"

(reprints from the British comic Wags)

Appearing in "Gallant Knight"

Featured Characters:

  • Sir Neville, the Gallant Knight

Antagonists:

  • King Melrot (dead)
  • Sir Giles of Renak
    • his knights and men-at-arms (several die)

Other Characters:

  • new king of Borek
  • unnamed maiden in Renak

Locations:

Era:

Synopsis for "Archie O'Toole"


Appearing in "Archie O'Toole"

Featured Characters:

Supporting Characters:

  • Sneezheim, royal secretary
  • other councilors and minions

Antagonists:

  • Gil O. Teen
  • Spider

Other Characters:

  • school kids

Locations:

  • Pyromania

Synopsis for "Lala Palooza"

(newspaper strip reprints)

Appearing in "Lala Palooza"

Featured Characters:

  • Lala Palooza

Supporting Characters:

  • Vincent Palooza

Synopsis for "Clip Chance at Cliffside"


Appearing in "Clip Chance at Cliffside"

Featured Characters:

Supporting Characters:


Antagonists:


Other Characters:


Locations:


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Vehicles:



Synopsis for "The Bungle Family"

(newspaper strip reprints)

Appearing in "The Bungle Family"

Featured Characters:

  • Bungle Family

Synopsis for Slim & Tubby: "Episode 11"

(newspaper strip reprints)

Appearing in Slim & Tubby: "Episode 11"

Featured Characters:

  • Slim
  • Tubby

Synopsis for "Joe Palooka"

(newspaper strip reprints)

Appearing in "Joe Palooka"

Featured Characters:

  • Joe Palooka

Supporting Characters:

  • Knobby Walsh

Notes

  • Published monthly by Comic Favorites, Inc.
  • The Clock:
    • The Clock's disguise-identity of "Snowy Winters" is a drug addict.
    • Tyrone Carron was murdered two days earlier, on the 19th of April, according to Muscles Mully's written confession.
    • This issue's episode of The Clock Strikes! re-uses exactly the same plot as the "Clock" story in Detective Picture Stories #5, April 1937, right down to the detail of the villain using copies of The Clock's own calling cards to frame him.
  • Also featured in this issue of Feature Funnies were:
    • Exciting Adventures: "The 1036 Pound World Record Tiger Shark!" by Charles B. Driscoll and Terry Gilkison
    • "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 ("Toddy" and "Flossie" share their pages, much like "Jane Arden" and "Lena Pry".)
    • 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.
    • Lena Pry by Monte Barrett and Russell E. Ross, running in the bottom-left 1/4 of all 4 of their Jane Arden pages.
    • Little Brother by H.J. Tuthill, running across the top 1/5 of all 3 of his Bungle Family pages.
    • Nippie ("He's Often Wrong") by Lank Leonard, running across the top 1/5 of all 4 of his Mickey Finn pages.
    • Off Side (1-panel gags) by Jo Metzer
    • Off The Record (1-panel gags) by Ed Reed, in two places in this issue
    • Ordeal of the Cross! by John Hix
    • Pirates Ahoy!: "Two Boys Who Took a Ship from Corsairs" (text story) by Charles B. Driscoll
    • Puzzle Phun: Party Phun by Don DeConn
    • Screen Snapshots: "Boris Karloff" by Bernard Baily
    • Strange As It Seems: "Gem of the Ocean" by John Hix
    • They're Still Talking: "...About Alexander's Striking Out Lazzeri with the Bases Full in a World Series Game" by Bob Zuppke and R.W. Depew
    • They're Still Talking: "...About One of Baseball's Greatest Catches" by Bob Zuppke and R.W. Depew
    • Toddy by George Marcoux ("Toddy" and "Flossie" share their pages, much like "Jane Arden" and "Lena Pry".)
    • Turn About by H.J. Tuthill, running across the top 1/5 of all 3 of his Bungle Family pages.



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