Doll Man
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| Doll Man | |
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 The World's Mightiest Mite | |
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Real Name |
Darrell Dane |
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First Appearance |
Feature Comics #27 (1939) |
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Original Publisher |
Quality |
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Created by |
Will Eisner |
Contents |
Golden Age Origin 
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Added by CrimsoncrusaderDarrell Dane was a chemist who discovered a liquid that could shrink a human being to only six inches tall but still leave him or her with the strength of a full-grown human. Later, his girlfriend, Martha Roberts, the daughter of Darrell's colleague Dr. Roberts, was threatened by gangsters. Darrell took the formula and used his height to defeat the criminals.
As a super hero, he is assisted by his sidekick, Martha Roberts. For transportation, he uses a bald eagle, a Dollplane (model airplane), and Elmo, a German Shepherd. His power is the ability to shrink to six inches tall but still have the strength of a full-grown man. He can return to his normal size whenever he wants.
Enemies Edit
Doll Man's enemies include the Angle, the Bearded Lady, Beauty, the Black Atom, Black Gondolier, Bollini, Botanist, the Brain, Cateye, the Crimson Claw, the Corpse, the Crimesmith, the Druid, Dr. Thirteen, Fat Catt, the Flame, the Fool Killer, Goon Gibett, Hag, Hand of Horror, the Headless Horseman, the Highwayman, the Huntress, the Hyena, the Image, Iron Mask, King of Beasts, the Knife, the Laughing Puppeteer, Little Miss Murder, Madame Diablo, Mad Hypnotist, Magog, Mandragora, Masked Rider, Master Diablo, Mechanical Man, Mephisto, Mind Monster, the Minstrel, Mr.Curio, Mr. Skeleton, Murder Marionettes, the Night, Nite-Owl, Peacock, Phantom Duelist, Pluvius, Queen Mab, Queen of Ants, Shawunkas the Shaman, Silver Dollar, the Skull, the Sphinx, the Sword Fish, Thrawn the Lord of Lightning, Tom Thumb, the Undertaker, Vibro, and the Vulture.
Public Domain Golden Age Appearances Edit
- Feature Comics #29-139
- Doll Man Quarterly #1-16
- Doll Man #17-32
- Doll Man # 11, 15, 17 (Reprints: I. W. Publishing; Super Comics, 1963)
Copyrighted Golden Age Appearances Edit
- Doll Man #33-47
Notes Edit
- When DC acquired and revived characters from Quality comics, Doll Man was included on a team called the Freedom Fighters who consisted of Uncle Sam (Quality),Ray, Human Bomb, Black Condor, and Phantom Lady. Also, only the original Doll Man from the Golden Age is in the public domain not any subsequent versions from DC comics.
- Should be further noted that DC renewed the copyrights of Doll Man Quarterly #33-47, so stories from those issues, which include those of with Doll Girl, are not public domain. Their right to do so, may be questionable as there's no readily apparent record of there being a transfer of copyrights to DC with the sale of Quality to DC.
- By comparison, when Gaines sold his half of what makes DC, it's apparent in the copyright records that the rights to titles like Leading Comics shifted to DC and it shows up in the records when Busy Arnold gave Columbia Pictures the rights to produce a movie serial based on Blackhawk.
