Number 388


Give Doll Man a great big hand!


From Feature Comics #107, February 1947, Doll Man encounters the sound of one hand murdering. "The Hand of Horror" is drawn by John Cassone(?) according to the Grand Comics Database. I don't know the other work of Cassone so I'm unable to judge whether it's by him or not.

Doll Man starred in Feature Comics for a long time, as well as appearing in his own book. I think the appeal to young readers is the tiny in the world of the oversized; The Incredible Shrinking Man or Land of the Giants stuff that fascinates kids. Otherwise Doll Man is kind of a dull man as a super hero. He's got one power, to shrink. Of course, that whole concept was lifted by DC for the Silver Age Atom. Darrell Dane, Doll Man, is a scientist, one of the few good ones in comics. The scientist-villain in "The Hand of Horror" is like most comic book scientists, evil and mad. I wonder how we made so much scientific progress in the 20th Century with all of those evil, mad scientists wreaking havoc?