doll man was the lead feature of the anthology series "feature comics" through #139 (october, 1949), with eisner writing the early stories under the pen name "william erwin maxwell", and art contributed first by lou fine, and later by reed crandall. doll man's own self-titled series ran from 1941 until 1953, for forty-seven issues. after the cancellation of "doll man", original stories involving the character were not published again for two decades.