Feature Comics Vol 1 21

Feature Comics Vol 1 #21

Published

Released

June, 1939

April 28, 1939

Issue Details
Pages 68 Country USA Original Price $0.10

Cover Artists

Ed Cronin

Publisher

Quality Comics

Indicia Publisher

Comic Favorites, Inc.

"Archie O'Tool: "O'Toole Transformed""

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The U.S. Government has been after you and your gang a long time, Baron Basil. America has no place for your theories. I advise you to leave the country!

-- Black X

Appearing in "Joe Palooka"

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Synopsis for "Joe Palooka"

Reprints from the Joe Palooka comic strip

Appearing in Espionage Starring Black X: "Pursued By Baron Basil"

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•  Black X 

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• Baron Basil gets away

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• from New York City to Washington DC

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• The Washington Special
  
  

Synopsis for Espionage Starring Black X: "Pursued By Baron Basil"

Circa 1938-April: The Black X has captured Baron Basil, but Basil escapes, leaving behind some incriminating documents, that will expose a foreign spy. Black X has to make it from New York to Washington with the evidence, before Basil's numerous tireless enemy agents catch up with him, in a fast-paced cross-country passenger-train chase, aboard the Washington Special. Towards the end, Black X eludes two badguys by the "Richard Stanton method," that is, he dresses up like a very dapper old lady, chats them up, and leaves them, with an insulting note pinned to one's coat.

Appearing in "Jane Arden"

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Reprints from the Jane Arden comic strip

Appearing in Gallant Knight: "The Princess of Navaria"

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Synopsis for Gallant Knight: "The Princess of Navaria"

Reprints of the Gallant Knight feature from the British comic Wags

Appearing in "Big Top"

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Reprints from the Big Top comic strip

Appearing in Captain Cook of Scotland Yard: "The Death of Colonel Warren"

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• Captain Cook of Scotland Yard

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Synopsis for Captain Cook of Scotland Yard: "The Death of Colonel Warren"

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  Appearing in Archie O'Tool: "O'Toole Transformed"

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• Archie O'Toole

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Synopsis for Archie O'Tool: "O'Toole Transformed"

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  Appearing in The Clock: "Crime at the International Fair"

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•  The Clock 

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• Chick
• The Boss

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• New York City
  • The New York World's Fair

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Synopsis for The Clock: "Crime at the International Fair"

Brian O'Brien visits the 1939 World's Fair and immediately runs into trouble. He manages to stop the Boss and Chick without ever donning his black silk mask.

Appearing in "Lala Palooza"

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Reprints from the Lala Plaooza comic strip

Appearing in The Bungle Family: "High Words"

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Synopsis for The Bungle Family: "High Words"

Reprints from The Bungle Family comic strip

Appearing in Richard Manners: "Theft by Seaplane"

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• Richard Manners

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  Appearing in Slim and Tubby: "Episode 21"

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Reprints from the Slim and Tubby comic strip

Appearing in "Ned Brant"

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Reprints from the Ned Brant comic strip

Appearing in Reynolds of the Mounted: "Murder among the Cree"

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• Sgt. Jim Reynolds, RCMP

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Synopsis for Reynolds of the Mounted: "Murder among the Cree"

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  Appearing in "Dixie Dugan"

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Synopsis for "Dixie Dugan"

Reprints from the Dixie Dugan comic strip

Appearing in "Mickey Finn"

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Synopsis for "Mickey Finn"

Reprints from the Mickey Finn comic strip

Notes

• First issue under new title of "Feature Comics".
• "Pursued by Baron Basil"
  • Baron Basil starts the story tied to a chair, but he's loose from that before the first page is over, and that's the last we see of him, for now.
  • Baron Basil looks exactly like Basil Taneo (Smash #5), he's thin but jowly and has an almost-handlebar mustache.
    

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See Also

• Discuss Feature Comics Vol 1 21 on the forums
• Cover gallery for the Feature Comics series

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Recommended Reading

• None.

Links and References

• Feature Comics #21 entire issue
• Feature Comics #21 index entry
• Feature Comics #21 spoilers