Feature Funnies #4 is an issue of the series Feature Funnies (Volume 1) with a cover date of January, 1938.
Contents
- 1 Synopsis for "Mickey Finn"
- 2 Appearing in "Mickey Finn"
- 3 Synopsis for "Ned Brant"
- 4 Appearing in "Ned Brant"
- 5 Synopsis for Big Top: "Episode 4"
- 6 Appearing in Big Top: "Episode 4"
- 7 Synopsis for "Dixie Dugan"
- 8 Appearing in "Dixie Dugan"
- 9 Synopsis for "Lala Palooza"
- 10 Appearing in "Lala Palooza"
- 11 Synopsis for "The Clock Versus the Loan Shark"
- 12 Appearing in "The Clock Versus the Loan Shark"
- 13 Synopsis for Slim and Tubby: "Episode 4"
- 14 Appearing in Slim and Tubby: "Episode 4"
- 15 Synopsis for "Jane Arden // Lena Pry"
- 16 Appearing in "Jane Arden // Lena Pry"
- 17 Synopsis for "Off the Record"
- 18 Appearing in "Off the Record"
- 19 Synopsis for The Bungle Family: "Neighbors' Day"
- 20 Appearing in The Bungle Family: "Neighbors' Day"
- 21 Synopsis for "Jim Swift"
- 22 Appearing in "Jim Swift"
- 23 Synopsis for Hawks of the Seas: "The Hawk"
- 24 Appearing in Hawks of the Seas: "The Hawk"
- 25 Synopsis for "Joe Palooka"
- 26 Appearing in "Joe Palooka"
- 27 Trivia
- 28 See Also
- 29 Links and References
Synopsis for "Mickey Finn"
(newspaper strip reprints)
Mickey Finn poses as Santa Claus to bring Christmas to two poor children.
Appearing in "Mickey Finn"
Featured Characters:
- Mickey Finn
Supporting Characters:
- Uncle Phil
Synopsis for "Ned Brant"
(newspaper strip reprints)
Appearing in "Ned Brant"
Featured Characters:
- Ned Brant
Synopsis for Big Top: "Episode 4"
(newspaper strip reprints)
Appearing in Big Top: "Episode 4"
- Appearances not yet listed
Synopsis for "Dixie Dugan"
(newspaper strip reprints)
Appearing in "Dixie Dugan"
Featured Characters:
- Dixie Dugan
Synopsis for "Lala Palooza"
(newspaper strip reprints)
Appearing in "Lala Palooza"
Featured Characters:
- Lala Palooza
Supporting Characters:
- Vincent Palooza
Synopsis for "The Clock Versus the Loan Shark"
The Clock gets a loan shark to confess, by sticking his supposedly-artificial hand into a fireplace, revealing the real hand concealed within, then beating a written confession out of him.
Appearing in "The Clock Versus the Loan Shark"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
- Captain Kane
Antagonists:
- Nichols
Locations:
Synopsis for Slim and Tubby: "Episode 4"
(newspaper strip reprints)
Appearing in Slim and Tubby: "Episode 4"
Featured Characters:
- Slim
- Tubby
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 "Off the Record"
(newspaper cartoon reprints)
Appearing in "Off the Record"
- Appearances not yet listed
Synopsis for The Bungle Family: "Neighbors' Day"
= (newspaper strip reprints)
Appearing in The Bungle Family: "Neighbors' Day"
Featured Characters:
- Bungle Family
Synopsis for "Jim Swift"
(newspaper strip reprints)
Appearing in "Jim Swift"
Featured Characters:
- Jim Swift
Synopsis for Hawks of the Seas: "The Hawk"
Reprints from the British comic Wags
Appearing in Hawks of the Seas: "The Hawk"
Featured Characters:
- The Hawk, American adventurer
- Burke
- Bogg
- Fluth
Antagonists:
- "Claw" Carlos (Wounded)
- his pirate crew: Pietro, others (Some are wounded)
- English Colonial Governor
- Governor's servants
Other Characters:
- Governor's party guests
- Spanish Princess
- Mother Carey, innkeeper
- English Soldiers
Locations:
- Jamaica
- Port Royal
- Jail
- Governor's Mansion
- Little Waterfront Inn
- Kingston
- Inn
- Port Royal
- Inagua Island, east of Jamaica (destination)
- Blue Boar's Head Inn (destination)
- Spanish Main
Items:
- Inca Ruby (Mentioned only)
Vehicles:
- Jamaica Coach, for Kingston
- Manzanillo, sloop, for Inagua Island
Synopsis for "Joe Palooka"
(newspaper strip reprints)
Appearing in "Joe Palooka"
Featured Characters:
- Joe Palooka
Supporting Characters:
- Knobby Walsh
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 ("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 3 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.
- Modern 'Planes: "Kawasaki 88" (observation biplane) by Les Marshall
- Nippie ("He's Often Wrong") by Lank Leonard, running across the top 1/5 of all 5 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: "Shipwreck Made a Pirate of 'Honest John'" (text story) by Charles B. Driscoll
- Puzzle Phun: "Color Twins" by Don DeConn
- Star Snapshots: Charles Laughton, by Bernard Baily
- Statement of Ownership, Management, Circulation, Etc.
- Strange As It Seems "Edward VII", by John Hix
- Strange As It Seems "James A. Garfield", by John Hix
- Strange As It Seems "Vincent van Gogh", by John Hix
- They're Still Talking: "...About Jack Dempsey at Toledo Ohio July 4, 1919" by Bob Zuppke & R.W. Depew
- They're Still Talking: "...About Jim Thorpe's Athletic Tragedy" by Bob Zuppke & R.W. Depew
- Toddy by George Marcoux ("Toddy" and "Flossie" share their pages, much like "Jane Arden" and "Lena Pry".)
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