Feature Funnies #6 is an issue of the series Feature Funnies (Volume 1) with a cover date of March, 1938.
Synopsis for "Joe Palooka"
(newspaper strip reprints)
Appearing in "Joe Palooka"
Featured Characters:
- Joe Palooka
Supporting Characters:
- Knobby Walsh
Synopsis for Ned Brant: "How Ned Stopped Coleraine"
(newspaper strip reprints)
Appearing in Ned Brant: "How Ned Stopped Coleraine"
Featured Characters:
- Ned Brant
Antagonists:
- Coleraine
Synopsis for "Lala Palooza"
(newspaper strip reprints)
Appearing in "Lala Palooza"
Featured Characters:
- Lala Palooza
Supporting Characters:
- Vincent Palooza
Synopsis for Hawks of the Seas: "Captain Newton's Mutinous Crew"
Reprints from the British comic Wags
Appearing in Hawks of the Seas: "Captain Newton's Mutinous Crew"
Featured Characters:
- The Hawk, as "the Doctor"
- Fluth
- Bogg (Behind the scenes)
- Caleb (Behind the scenes)
- Sagaua (Behind the scenes)
- Pierre (Behind the scenes)
- Burke (Behind the scenes)
Antagonists:
- Newton's mutinous crew
- Claw Carlos
- his pirate crew: Pietro, others (Behind the scenes)
- Morgan, slave trader
- tavern full of notorious characters
Other Characters:
- Spanish Princess
- Captain Newton, of the Manzanillo
- Innkeeper
Locations:
- Spanish Main
- Inagua Island, east of Jamaica
- Blue Boar Inn
- Dakar, Africa (Destination)
Items:
- Inca Ruby (Mentioned only)
Vehicles:
- Manzanillo, small sloop
- Manzanillo's dory
- Carlos' armed sloop
Synopsis for Slim & Tubby: "Episode 6"
(newspaper strip reprints)
Appearing in Slim & Tubby: "Episode 6"
Featured Characters:
- Slim
- Tubby
Synopsis for The Clock Strikes!: "Clyde Hope, Jr. Kidnapped"
The Clock busts a brutal kidnap gang and rescues their hostage.
Appearing in The Clock Strikes!: "Clyde Hope, Jr. Kidnapped"
Featured Characters:
Antagonists:
- Mike "Slick" Sparra
- Slim
- Butch
Other Characters:
- Clyde Hope, Jr.
Locations:
Synopsis for Big Top: "Episode 6"
(newspaper strip reprints)
Appearing in Big Top: "Episode 6"
- 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 Bungle Family: "Home Financing"
(newspaper strip reprints)
Appearing in Bungle Family: "Home Financing"
Featured Characters:
- Bungle Family
Synopsis for Jim Swift: "The Missing Sailors"
(newspaper strip reprints)
Appearing in Jim Swift: "The Missing Sailors"
Featured Characters:
- Jim Swift (Final appearance)
Synopsis for "Dixie Dugan"
(newspaper strip reprints)
Appearing in "Dixie Dugan"
Featured Characters:
- Dixie Dugan
Synopsis for "Mickey Finn"
(newspaper strip reprints)
Appearing in "Mickey Finn"
Featured Characters:
- Mickey Finn
Supporting Characters:
- Uncle Phil
Notes
- The Clock has a torture chamber in his sub-basement HQ, and in this issue he persuades a squealer to squeal by sticking him into an iron maiden.
- The Clock's alter ego of "Snowy Winters" has already been established and used at least once before this issue.
- Last issue for Jim Swift by Ed Cronin.
Trivia
- Will Eisner signs his "Hawks of the Seas" strip as "Willis Rensie"
- 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 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 4 of his Bungle Family pages.
- Modern 'Planes: "Private or Commercial" (Waco C-7) 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 three places in this issue.
- Pirates Ahoy: "Captain Kidd, Who Never Was a Pirate" (text story) by Charles B. Driscoll
- Puzzle Phun: "The Color Twins" by Don DeConn
- Strange As It Seems: "David Glasgow Farragut" by John Hix
- Strange As It Seems: "Professor of Poison" by John Hix
- Strange As It Seems: "The Mountain of Rainbow Snow" by John Hix
- Strange As It Seems: "The Toy War" by John Hix
- They're Still Talking: "...About Gertrude Ederle's conquest of the English Channel" by Bob Zuppke & R.W. Depew
- They're Still Talking: "...About Kilrain and Sullivan's Bare Knuckle Battle" by Bob Zuppke & R.W. Depew
- Toddy by George Marcoux ("Toddy" and "Flossie" share their pages, much like "Jane Arden" and "Lena Pry".)
- Tommy O'Toole by Ed Cronin
See Also