Feature Funnies #5 is an issue of the series Feature Funnies (Volume 1) with a cover date of February, 1938.
Synopsis for "Joe Palooka"
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Appearing in "Joe Palooka"
Featured Characters:
- Joe Palooka
Supporting Characters:
- Knobby Walsh
Synopsis for "Ned Brant"
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Appearing in "Ned Brant"
Featured Characters:
- Ned Brant
Synopsis for "Lala Palooza"
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Appearing in "Lala Palooza"
Featured Characters:
- Lala Palooza
Supporting Characters:
- Vincent Palooza
Synopsis for "Big Top"
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Appearing in "Big Top"
- Appearances not yet listed
Synopsis for "The Bungle Family"
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Appearing in "The Bungle Family"
Featured Characters:
- The Bungle Family
Synopsis for The Clock Strikes: "'Velvet' Marcon"
When imprisoned extortionist "Velvet" Marcon is released at the end of his sentence, he undertakes the fulfillment of his vow of revenge against Judge Justin Wright. The Clock convinces the judge to set a trap for Marcon, at the Judge's country home. Marcon goes there, sneaks up on the Clock, and head-konks him unconscious with a pistol butt, then enters the house to confront Wright at gunpoint. He then wastes so much time talking smack to the judge that the Clock has time to recover consciousness, run into the house, and grab him. Four punches later, Marcon is laid out unconscious and tied up. The Clock then asks the judge to contribute twenty thousand dollars to the city orphanage's building fund, and the judge is happy to donate.
Appearing in The Clock Strikes: "'Velvet' Marcon"
Featured Characters:
Antagonists:
- "Velvet" Marcon
Other Characters:
- Judge Justin Wright
- Gown and Gavel Club
Locations:
Synopsis for "Jane Arden // Lena Pry"
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Appearing in "Jane Arden // Lena Pry"
Featured Characters:
- Jane Arden
- Lena Pry (See Notes.)
Synopsis for "Slim and Tubby"
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Appearing in "Slim and Tubby"
Featured Characters:
- Slim
- Tubby
Synopsis for "Dixie Dugan"
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Appearing in "Dixie Dugan"
Featured Characters:
- Dixie Dugan
Synopsis for Hawks of the Seas: "The Doctor"
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Appearing in Hawks of the Seas: "The Doctor"
Featured Characters:
- The Hawk, as "the Doctor"
- Bogg
- Fluth
- Caleb
- Sagaua
- Pierre
- Burke
Antagonists:
- "Claw" Carlos (Behind the scenes)
- his pirate crew: Pietro, others (Behind the scenes)
- English Colonial Governor
- Governor's couriers and messengers
- Newton's mutinous crew
Other Characters:
- Captain Newton, of the Manzanillo
- Spanish Princess
Locations:
- Jamaica
- Port Royal
- Jail
- Governor's Mansion
- Kingston
- Inn
- Port Royal
- Inagua Island, east of Jamaica (destination)
- Blue Boar's Head Inn (destination)
- Spanish Main
Items:
- Inca Ruby (Mentioned only)
Vehicles:
- Manzanillo, small sloop
Synopsis for "Jim Swift"
Appearing in "Jim Swift"
Featured Characters:
- Jim Swift
Synopsis for "Toddy"
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Appearing in "Toddy"
Featured Characters:
- Toddy
Synopsis for "Flossie"
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Appearing in "Flossie"
Featured Characters:
- Flossy
Synopsis for "Mickey Finn"
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Appearing in "Mickey Finn"
Featured Characters:
- Mickey Finn
Supporting Characters:
- Uncle Phil
Notes
- Published monthly by Comic Favorites, Inc.
- The Clock is knocked unconscious, possibly for the first time, with a pistol butt.
Trivia
- Will Eisner signed his "Hawks of the Sea" strip as "Willis Rensie."
- Also featured in this issue of Feature Funnies 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 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.
- Modern 'Planes: "The Winner" (French racing 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: "The Pirate Hero of France" (text story) by Charles B. Driscoll
- Puzzle Phun: "50 OP" by Don DeConn
- Star Snapshots: Luise Rainer, by Bernard Baily
- Strange As It Seems "Frank C. Withers", by John Hix
- Strange As It Seems "The Birth of 1850", by John Hix
- Strange As It Seems: "The Ghost Spy", by John Hix
- Strange As It Seems: "William Penn", by John Hix
- They're Still Talking: "...About the Courage of Glenn Cunningham" by Bob Zuppke & R.W. Depew
- They're Still Talking: "...About How Frank Gotch Made Hackenschmidt Quit" 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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