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Issue: More Fun Comics #4 (16)
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Publisher: FlagDC
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Nicholson Publishing Co. Inc.
On Sale Date: 11/30/1936
Volume: 2
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 42 (29 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson (editor); Vin Sullivan (associate editor); F. Whitney Ellsworth (associate editor)
Disclose Notes: The indicia has "VOL. 2 No. 4", but the cover has "NO. 16".

On sale date from the publication date as submitted to the U.S. Copyright Office found in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1936, New Series, Volume 31, Number 4. Class B periodical. Copyright registration number B 325541.
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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
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Xmas Number

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humorous
Santa Claus
Kid bear-trapping Santa Claus.
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Johnson Smith & Co.
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Inside front cover.
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Johnson Smith & Company
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The Resbian Affair, Part 3

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mystery
Sandra of the Secret Service
Sandra; Lorenz
Sandra, disguised as an old apple woman...
Sandra attempts to rescue Lorenz from a Resbian prison.
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Vin Sullivan
Vin Sullivan
Vin Sullivan
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childrens, humorous
Pincus
Pincus
No Swimming Allowed
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humorous
Hey! This is only a play!
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Prince of Patrania, Part 14

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adventure
Spike Spalding
Spike Spalding; Pincus; The Sailor
Their escape is discovered!
Spike and his friends reach dry land ahead of their former captors.
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Episode 6

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historical
The Three Musketeers
D'Artagnan; Athos; Porthos; Aramis; De Treville
D'Artagnan and the three musketeers...
The four await an audience with the king which is cancelled at the last minute.
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adapted from the Alexandre Dumas novel
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Koth and the Seven, Part 4

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occult
Dr. Occult
Doctor Occult; Zator, the Seven; Koth (villain, origin in flashback)
Sent to an Egyptian tomb...
Koth, an alien marooned on Earth when his spaceship crashed, is preparing to wipe out the population.
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Sea Gold [Part 1]

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historical
Captain Grim
Captain Grim; Capt. MacPherson; Buck Wilson; Tyner (introduction, villain)
Grim begins telling tales of his younger years.
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Script was formerly credited to Tom Cooper, but Keith Chandler has found no information to support the idea that Cooper was a writer.
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Episode 15

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historical
Ivanhoe
Ivanhoe; The Black Knight; Cedric; Rowena; The Templar; Rebecca; Athelstane (death); Ulrica
The Black Knight arrives at the burning chamber...
Ivanhoe and Rowena are rescued from the burning castle, while The Templar abducts Rebecca.
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adapted from the Sir Walter Scott novel
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adventure
Pep Morgan
Pep Morgan
Well, Pep, what's the dope on the game to-day!
Pep has to play football after fighting off hooligans who attempt to prevent him from reaching the game.
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Script was formerly credited to Creig Flessel, but Keith Chandler has found no information to support the idea that Flessel was a writer on this strip.
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Fun Club
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Gold Gulch, Part 3

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anthropomorphic
Pelion and Ossa
Pelion; Ossa
What a break!!
An Indian sells the boys a pot which causes nothing but trouble.
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Duotone in red and black.
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Captain Hale, Gun-Runner, Part 3

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historical
Midshipman Dewey
Dewey; Captain Hale; Dorgan; Blackbirder; Captain Smith
Dewey has discovered...
Dewey has discovered that Captain Hale is gun-running.
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Script was formerly credited to Tom Cooper, but Keith Chandler has found no information to support the idea that Cooper was a writer.
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Fang Gow of China [Part 16]

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adventure
Barry O'Neill and Fang Gow of China
Barry O'Neil; Fang Gow; LeGrand
Barry and LeGrand escape from the sewers, but Fang Gow disappears.
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People of the Red Planet, Part 2

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science fiction
Mark Marson of the Interplanetary Police
Mark Marson; Sgt. Monty Montague; Sarno; Hillary's daughter
I'm assigning Sergeant Montague to this case also...
Mark is assigned the case of finding Professor Hillary, but he is being tailed by Sarno's men.
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Script was formerly credited to Tom Hickey, but Keith Chandler has found no information to support the idea that Hickey was a writer.
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In the Wilderness, Part 4

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adventure
The Bradley Boys
Tom Bradley; Jack Bradley; Harry Mattson (introduction)
For many months...
Lost in the woods, Tom and Jack meet Harry Mattson, a wanted man.
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Duotone in red and black.

Script was formerly credited to Creig Flessel, but Keith Chandler has found no information to support the idea that Flessel was a writer on this strip.
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The Holdup, Part 8

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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mystery
Along the Main Line
Jake; Ed; Slick Carter; Malverne; Dawkins
Jake is fighting for his life...
Jake is taken to Slick Carter's hideout and held prisoner.
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Script was formerly credited to Tom Cooper, but Keith Chandler has found no information to support the idea that Cooper was a writer.
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Lionel Trains
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adventure
Brad Hardy
Brad Hardy; Prince Kardos; Helgar
By a daring piece of strategy...
Brad organizes a jail break.
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Script was formerly credited to Tom Hickey, but Keith Chandler has found no information to support the idea that Hickey was a writer.
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Just Suppose
Henry VIII; Andrew Jackson
That Henry VIII had not been so dissatisfied...
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Duotone in red and black.
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The Menace of Little Wolf, Part 1

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western
Buckskin Jim
Buckskin Jim; Little Wolf
Little Wolf, jealous because Jim is favored by the chief...
Little Wolf forces Jim into a fight.
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Script was formerly credited to Tom Cooper, but Keith Chandler has found no information to support the idea that Cooper was a writer.
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Alaskan Adventure, Part 2

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adventure
Bob Merritt and His Flying Pals
Bob Merritt; Prospector Jake; Saunders
Bob Merritt and his men finally land...
Bob investigates an extinct volcano crater with his rocket plane.
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The Bedouin Adventure, Part 15

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adventure
Wing Brady
Wing Brady; Ali Ben Saad (villain); Lynn Harding; Lieutenant Canfield
Wing Brady and Lynn Harding have been recaptured...
Ali Ben Saad displays his captives to the Foreign Legion, hoping to stave off an attack on his fortress.
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Script was formerly credited to Tom Hickey, but Keith Chandler has found no information to support the idea that Hickey was a writer.
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humorous
Sam the Porter
Sam the Porter
Things is shore tuff 'roun' dis hotel!
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Henry Kiefer
A. D. Kiefer
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informational
Do You Know?
What destroyed the land bridge between America and Asia?
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Mary Patrick (credited)
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Talk about Talkies
Jane Withers (photo)
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movie reviews
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You Asked for It

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
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Vin Sullivan
Vin Sullivan
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Detective Comics
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House ad for Detective Comics #1 with cover date of December 1936, though actual issue is dated March 1937.
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Statement of Ownership

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Fred B. Jeske
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informational
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Nicholson Publishing Company; 373 Fourth Avenue, NY, NY. Editor: Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson; Bus Manager Fred B Jeske, 420 Desoto Ave St. Louis, MO; owners: More Fun Inc; Nicholson Publishing; Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson
Printed in St Louis MO. Managing Editor: Whitney Ellsworth
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Damsel in Distress, Part 13

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western
Jack Woods
Jack Woods; Dolores; Don Miguel; Pancho Villa (villain)
Jack, Dolores and her father...
Jack and his friends are under siege and await rescue by federal troops.
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informational
The Magic Crystal of History
Bobby; Binks; Hannibal; P. Cornelius Scipio
The wars between Rome and Carthage are in progress...
Bobby and Binks gaze into the crystal once again and see Hannibal's conquest of the middle east, and his eventual downfall.
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Script was formerly credited to Homer Fleming, but Keith Chandler has found no information to support the idea that Fleming was a writer on this strip.
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Kidnaped!

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childrens
Little Linda
Ned Flint; Watson; X-42; Linda
You G-Men have had plenty of experience...
Linda leaves a clue to her location.
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fantasy
Don Drake on the Planet Saro
Don Drake; Queen Zira; Betty; Laswan (villain); Krenon (villain)
Laswan's whipsnappers take Queen Zira, Betty and Don captive...
Laswan turns traitor to his own side in hopes of usurping power.
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Island Adventure, Part 6

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humorous
Woozy Watts
Woozy Watts
Watts follows puzzling directions he has found that lead him to a house he's not supposed to enter.
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Episode 5

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historical
Pirate Gold
Captain Dennis; Jeff Roberts; Pedro; the Stranger
Mutiny breaks out...
A stranger on the island saves Captain Dennis and Jeff's lives.
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Script was formerly credited to Sven Elven, but no information in either the Who’s Who or the long article on Elven in Alter Ego #162 (January 2020) support the idea that he was a writer on this strip.
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Fighting for Chivalry

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humorous
Hubert
Hubert
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pantomime; wordless comic
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mystery
Calling All Cars
Sandy Kean
Doggone th' luck! I came too late...
Sandy has to disarm a madman with a reporter's "help".
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humorous
Alger's Variety Show
The poets all tell us, Miss Smith...
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Factory to You

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Remington Rand
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Inside back cover.
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Martin-Cole Company
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Back cover.

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