Odd that you should have a stateroom adjacent to the arsenal! Let's say, for instance, if a man wanted to blow up this ship, where would he put the bomb? 
- — Black X, to the heavily-sweating Jonathan Atcherson
Feature Funnies #14 is an issue of the series Feature Funnies (Volume 1) with a cover date of November, 1938.
Synopsis for "Joe Palooka"
(newspaper strip reprints)
Appearing in "Joe Palooka"
Featured Characters:
- Joe Palooka
Supporting Characters:
- Knobby Walsh
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 "Big Top"
(newspaper strip reprints)
Appearing in "Big Top"
- Appearances not yet listed
Synopsis for Clip Chance at Cliffside: "The Bert Ball Encounter (Part 2 of 2)"
Clip finally punches Bert.
Appearing in Clip Chance at Cliffside: "The Bert Ball Encounter (Part 2 of 2)"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
- Slim
- Coach Barr
Antagonists:
- Bert Ball
Other Characters:
- Lee, Cliffside FB team
- Brud Sullivan, Trent FB team
Locations:
- Cliffside College
Synopsis for Gallant Knight: "Sir Borat's Plan (Part 2 of 2)"
(reprints from the British comic Wags)
Appearing in Gallant Knight: "Sir Borat's Plan (Part 2 of 2)"
Featured Characters:
- Sir Tyrone Neville, the Gallant Knight
Supporting Characters:
- Inez
Antagonists:
- Sir Borat
Other Characters:
- Duke of Berrengar
Locations:
- Europe
- Castle Berrengar
Era:
- Early 9th Century, Reign of Charlemagne
Synopsis for Archie O'Toole: "Gil O. Teen Makes War"
Appearing in Archie O'Toole: "Gil O. Teen Makes War"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
- Sneezheim
- Earl of Wintergreen
Other Characters:
- O'Toole's military commanders
Antagonists:
- Gil O. Teen, ex-dictator
- his starving army
Locations:
- Pyromania
Synopsis for The Bungle Family: "The Old Psychologist"
(newspaper strip reprints)
Appearing in The Bungle Family: "The Old Psychologist"
Featured Characters:
- Bungle Family
Synopsis for The Clock: "The Murder of Mayor Willis"
Mayor Willis gets murdered, so Police Commissioner Litz (who soon will turn out to be the culprit) leans on Captain Kane to make just any old arrest at all, and railroad whoever they have to, to appease the public. Kane instead recruits The Clock to investigate, and a few hours later P.C. Litz is busted.
Appearing in The Clock: "The Murder of Mayor Willis"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
- Captain Kane
Antagonists:
- Commissioner Litz
Locations:
Synopsis for "Mickey Finn"
(newspaper strip reprints)
Appearing in "Mickey Finn"
Featured Characters:
- Mickey Finn
Supporting Characters:
- Uncle Phil
Synopsis for Espionage Starring Black X: "Treachery on the Transatlantic Flight"
Circa probably 1937-Oct, from New York Harbor, the Superior American Airways inaugurated a transatlantic airline service, and the debonair monocled cigarette-smoking Black X was aboard to foil any potential saboteurs, and of course there was one. Disgraced S.A.A. ex-executive Jonathan Atcherson had assembled a bomb on board, and after a few complications and misdirections, Black X defused the bomb and let NYPD dimwit detective Mixy Mulligan get the credit for it, because spies can't get credit.
Appearing in Espionage Starring Black X: "Treachery on the Transatlantic Flight"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
- Major Gale (See Notes.)
Antagonists:
- Jonathan Atcherson, ex-SAA executive.
Other Characters:
- Mixy Mulligan, NYPD
Locations:
Vehicles:
- S.A.A. Clipper airliner
Synopsis for "Dixie Dugan"
(newspaper strip reprints)
Appearing in "Dixie Dugan"
Featured Characters:
- Dixie Dugan
Synopsis for Reynolds of the Mounted: "The Terror"
Appearing in Reynolds of the Mounted: "The Terror"
Featured Characters:
- Sgt. Jim Reynolds, RCMP (First appearance)
Supporting Characters:
- Royal Canadian Mounted Police (First appearance)
- Reynolds' boss, RCMP
Antagonists:
- The Terror (First appearance)
- Pierre Bateau (First appearance)
- their gang
Other Characters:
- fur trappers
- Sanders, Canadian Secret Service
- two more Mounties
Locations:
- Canada
- Upper Valley Section
- Deer Lake
- Skeleton Creek
- Skeleton Creek
- Deer Lake
- Upper Valley Section
Synopsis for "Ned Brant"
(newspaper strip reprints)
Appearing in "Ned Brant"
Featured Characters:
- Ned Brant
Synopsis for Slim and Tubby: "Episode 14"
(newspaper strip reprints)
Appearing in Slim and Tubby: "Episode 14"
Featured Characters:
- Slim
- Tubby
Locations:
- Old West
Synopsis for "Lala Palooza"
(newspaper strip reprints)
Appearing in "Lala Palooza"
Featured Characters:
- Lala Palooza
Supporting Characters:
- Vincent Palooza
Notes
- Published monthly by Comic Favorites, Inc.
- The Clock Strikes:
- The Clock's real identity is revealed for the first time.
- Only one fight takes place in this 5-page story, and it's in a completely darkened room, so it's just four completely blacked-out panels long. That's half a page.
- "Espionage Starring Black X" stories tend to cover (in just 4 to 7 pages) "several weeks" or up to "three months" at a time, so the estimated date of this story is necessarily much earlier than the issue's cover date.
- Black X's boss, identified last issue as "Major Gale" is called only "Black X's superior" and "Black X's chief" in this story.
- Gallant Knight: Spelling of "Castle Berrengar" has changed since last issue, from "Berengar."
- First issue for Reynolds of the Mounted by Art Pinajian.
- This is also apparently the first regular, ongoing appearance of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in a comic book title covered by this Index. The second such series is Red Coat Patrol by Wade Hampton, starting in More Fun Comics #39 (Jan 1939).
- Reynolds gets his first blunt instrument head trauma in this story.
- Also featured in this issue of Feature Funnies were:
- 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.
- "Joe Palooka's Boxing Course" by Ham Fisher, running across the top 1/5 of all 4 of his Joe Palooka 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 (newspaper cartoon reprints), by Jo Metzer
- Off The Record (1-panel gags) by Ed Reed, in two places in this issue.
- Pirates Ahoy: "A Governor Who Hunted Treasure", (text story) by Charles B. Driscoll
- Strange As It Seems: "Edward II of England", by John Hix
- Strange As It Seems: "Eliza McCardle Johnson", by John Hix
- They're Still Talking: "...About the Play that Left the Army Blinking", by Monte Barrett and Russell E. Ross
- Toddy, by George Marcoux ("Toddy" and "Flossie" share their pages, much like "Jane Arden" and "Lena Pry".)
Trivia
- This issue's "Espionage" story ends with Mulligan's co-workers all comically sick and tired of hearing him brag about how he supposedly caught the airliner bomber. None of these guys will be back in future "Espionage" stories.
- Will Eisner signed his Espionage stories as "Will Erwin" and his Archie O'Toole stories as "Bud Thomas".
- George Brenner signed his Clip Chance stories as "Scott Sheridan".
See Also