Thanks for your patience lately as I’ve scratched an itch,
and posted select non-jungle characters. Other than today’s spotlighted golden-ager,
only Doll Man and a few humor fillers remain from this classic issue. Today’s “hero”
enjoyed a long comics career (although you might not have even heard of him). Swing
Sisson stars in "Jack Traxe's Leveraged Buyout" from Feature Comics
#59 (Aug. 1942); originally published by Quality, and illustrated by Phil Martin.
Swing was the band leader at The Clover Club whose other performers included
singer Bonnie Baxter and sax player Toby Tucker, both of whom usually helped
out in the two-fisted scrapes Swing inevitably got involved with in the glitzy
but racket-beset night club business of the 1940s. They made occasional forays
into other areas of entertainment, but mostly hung around the club where they
were the stars. Their act ran for years in the back pages of Feature Comics
(the gang was introduced in #49; Oct. 1941). Swing led his band and traded
punches with crooks throughout the 1940s. In fact, he stayed on the job as long
as Feature was published, outlasting all the title's superheroes, even
Doll Man himself. The last issue was #144 (May, 1950), and after that Swing
Sisson was finished. The Catacombs acknowledges "The Digital Comic
Museum", as the source of this classic comic story. Note: The
copyright for this issue, its contents and artwork belongs to the original
publisher and/or creators and is reproduced here solely for entertainment
purposes. Enjoy!
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