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Issue: More Fun Comics #63
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Variant: Without Canadian Price
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Publisher: FlagDC
Indicia Publisher: Detective Comics Inc.
On Sale Date: 11/27/1940
Volume: none
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 27 (10 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Whitney Ellsworth [as F. W. Ellsworth]
Disclose Notes: Ellsworth credit from Statement of Ownership.

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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color cover; color, duotone, and black and white interior (#9-47); color interior (#48 onwards)
Dimensions: standard Golden Age US
Paper Stock: newsprint interior, paper covers (#9-11); glossy covers (#12 onwards)
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
Format Notes:  
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
Indicia on this Page
 
 

Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
Indicia on this Page
 
 

Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
Indicia on this Page
 
 
Assets2
 
 

Statement of Ownership
 
 
[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Bernard Baily (signed)
Bernard Baily (signed)
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Subject Matter
occult, superhero
The Spectre
The Spectre
Reprinting
FlagThe Golden Age Spectre Archives #1 published May 2003
as [untitled] [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
1
[untitled]

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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typeset
Subject Matter
Johnson Smith & Co.
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Miscellaneous
1
Inside front cover.
Trigger Daniel's Death Curse

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Jerry Siegel (signed)
Bernard Baily (signed)
Bernard Baily (signed)
?
Bernard Baily
Subject Matter
occult, superhero
The Spectre
The Spectre [Jim Corrigan]; The Chief; Trigger Daniels (villain); Bugs O'Leary (villain)
The murder of a famed philanthroptist lands Trigger Daniels to prison and the death sentence, leading the Spectre to have to fight his ghost that comes to Earth to exact revenge on those responsible for his arrest and death.
Reprinting
FlagThe Golden Age Spectre Archives #1 published May 2003
as Trigger Daniels' Death Curse [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
10
[untitled]

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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typeset
Subject Matter
Butterfinger
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Miscellaneous
1
The Panama Plot

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Joe Donohoe (signed)
Joe Donohoe (signed)
Joe Donohoe (signed)
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?
Subject Matter
mystery
Detective Sergeant Carey
Sergeant Carey; Sleepy
Sleepy and the Sergeant thwart a plot to blow up the Panama Canal using a stolen plane.
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
4
The Jungle Scientist

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Frank Belknap Long ?
George Papp
George Papp
?
?
Subject Matter
jungle
Congo Bill
Congo Bill; Prof. Kent; Nero (lion); Nagaka
Congo Bill and the professor encounter a mad scientist and his beautiful daughter in the middle of the jungle. The scientist is creating flesh-eating plants.
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
6
None of the hallmarks of the scripter of the Congo Bill feature in More Fun Comics (DC, 1936 series) #56-58 are present here. Bails' Whos Who indicates a script credit for Long in 1940.
[untitled]

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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typeset
Subject Matter
Bendix Coaster Brake
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Miscellaneous
0.5
Crossword puzzle for a free pennant.
Tale of Two Cities, by Charles Dickens

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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typeset
Subject Matter
Book Review
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Miscellaneous
0.5
[untitled]

Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Hal Sherman (signed)
Hal Sherman (signed)
Hal Sherman (signed)
?
?
Subject Matter
humorous
Silly Situations
You'd have been proud to see the way I parked downtown today...
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Miscellaneous
0.5
[untitled]

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
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Subject Matter
Built-Rite Toys
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Miscellaneous
0.5
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Ed Winiarski [as Win] (signed)
Ed Winiarski [as Win] (signed)
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?
Subject Matter
adventure, aviation
Captain Desmo
Captain Desmo; Gabby McGuire; Jean Black; Blackie Mason
A speedy plane cut across the blue Pacific...
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
6
The Man Who Was Dead

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Jerry Siegel
Fred Ray
Fred Ray
?
?
Subject Matter
mystery
Radio Squad
Radio Squad [Larry Trent; Sandy Kean]
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
6
Superman Radio Program

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
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typeset
Subject Matter
The Adventures of Superman
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
0.25
In the left-hand column of the first page of the text story.
Cold Theory

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Alec Leighton (signed)
typeset
Subject Matter
adventure
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
1.1
Across two pages.
[untitled]

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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?
Subject Matter
Model Airplane News
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Miscellaneous
0.33
On the bottom of the second page of the text story.
[untitled]

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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typeset
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Miscellaneous
0.33
Several small ads on both pages of the text story.
The Besieged City

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Bob Hirsch
Rusty Lehman
Rusty Lehman
?
?
Subject Matter
war
Lieutenant Bob Neal
Bob Neal; Tubby; Steve Wright
Bob and Tubby help refugees escape from Moravia.
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
6
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Albert Sulman (signed)
Joe Sulman (signed)
Joe Sulman (signed)
?
?
Subject Matter
adventure
Biff Bronson
Biff Bronzon; Rupert Hayes; Dan Druff; Joe Pagelli
The police are baffled by several deaths by poison...
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
6
[untitled]

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
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?
?
typeset
Subject Matter
More Fun Stamp Page
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Miscellaneous
1
Page is mostly small ads for stamps dealers.
[untitled]

Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Henry Boltinoff
Henry Boltinoff
Henry Boltinoff
?
Henry Boltinoff
Subject Matter
humorous
Gags
I'm not one for bragging!
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
0.44
Statement of Ownership

Statement of Ownership  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Jack Liebowitz
typeset
Subject Matter
informational
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
0.22
Publisher:Detective Comics Inc.
480 Lexington Ave, NY, NY
Editor: W. F. Ellsworth
Owners: Harry Donenfeld; P. H. Sampliner
[untitled]

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
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typeset
Subject Matter
Chemcraft
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
0.33
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Jack Lehti (signed)
Jack Lehti (signed)
?
?
Subject Matter
adventure
Sergeant O'Malley of the Red Coat Patrol
Sgt. O'Malley; Black Hawk
Across the frozen wasteland races an outlaw ...
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
6
The Sorcerer

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Gardner Fox
Howard Sherman
Howard Sherman
?
Howard Sherman
Subject Matter
occult, superhero
Doctor Fate
Doctor Fate [Kent Nelson]; Inza Kramer; Haldane the Sorcerer (villain); John Jerome Jr. (villain); John Jerome Sr. (villain)
Doctor Fate responds to Inza's thoughts after a sorceror tries to kill a millionaire with black magic and turns Inza to stone.
Reprinting
FlagGolden Age Doctor Fate Archives #1 published September 2007
as The Sorcerer [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
6
Dr. Fate wears gloves for the first time.

Oddity: Jerome Kern Jr. comes up to Inza in the 2nd panel and tells her that he has read about her in More Fun Comics!
Here It Is -- All-Star No. 3

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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typeset
Subject Matter
All-Star Comics
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
1
[untitled]

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
?
?
typeset
Subject Matter
Superman Krypto-Raygun
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
1
Inside back cover.
[untitled]

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Fred Harman (signed)
Fred Harman (signed)
?
?
Subject Matter
Daisy Air Rifles
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
1
Back cover.

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