Comic Title: Star Spangled Comics #123
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: December 1951
Approx. On Sale Date: October 12, 1951 Copyright Date October 10, 1951
Source: Library of Congress, Periodicals 1951
Until 1958 DC did not report actual on sale dates to the copyright office
The publication dates listed in LoC records are NOT release dates.

Cover Price: $0.10
Page Count: 40
Editor: Jack Schiff

Title: "The Dolls of Doom"
Pages: 8

Feature(s):
Doctor 13 (of Earth-1)

Artist: Leonard Starr

Feature Character(s)

• Doctor Thirteen (last appearance in Star Spangled Comics #122; next appearance in Star Spangled Comics #124)

Supporting Character(s)

• Marie Leeds (last name given as Lamont in this story; last appearance in Star Spangled Comics #122; next appearance in Star Spangled Comics #124)

Villain(s)

• Amos Montola (a doll maker; no further appearances)
• Paton Shields (a thief; behind-the-scenes; no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Lyman Maples (millionaire theatre owner; no further appearances)
• Harvey (Maples's assistant; no further appearances)
• Velma Reed (a Hollywood starlet; dies in this story; no further appearances)
• Mrs. Harley Tolls (the wife of a dead senator; no further appearances)
• Howard Dore (a movie star; no further appearances)

Synopsis:
Doctor Thirteen is invited to a Hollywood party where the dead body of actress Velma Reed is discovered. A small wax doll of Reed is found with a hole matching her gunshot wound. Later two more wax dolls are discovered. The dolls are likenesses of a senator and a movie director, both of whom met accidental deaths.

Dr. Thirteen investigates a doll maker, Amos Montola. He admits to making the dolls, but he claims to have sold them. When Dr. Thirteen returns to the store for a second visit, he discovers Montola making a doll resembling him. The doll is stabbed with a pin. Later, Dr. Thirteen finds a similar mark on his own body.

When actor Howard Dore buys a doll of himself for ten thousand dollars, Dr. Thirteen approaches him with a plan to expose the phony voodoo. Dore returns the doll to Montola, during which the doll is stabbed. Dore feigns a heart attack. Montola panics and admits that he created the dolls after the deaths of the others. Dore then reveals he was faking, and Dr. Thirteen exposes another phony supernatural crime.