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Issue: More Fun Comics #75
Publication Date: January 1942
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Issues: #75 of 119 Issues (121 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagDC
Brand: A Superman DC PublicationView Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: Detective Comics Inc.
On Sale Date: 11/18/1941
Volume: none
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 22 (8 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Whitney Ellsworth [as F. W. Ellsworth] (credited editor); Mort Weisinger (actual editor)
Disclose Notes: On-sale date from copyright registration.
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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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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): Howard Sherman
Inker(s): Howard Sherman
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: occult, superhero
Feature(s): Doctor Fate
Character(s): Doctor Fate [Kent Nelson]
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In Content Item: FlagGolden Age Doctor Fate Archives #1 published September 2007
as More Fun #75 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Superman Krypto-Raygun
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside front cover.
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The Battle Against Time

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Gardner Fox
Penciller(s): Howard Sherman
Inker(s): Howard Sherman
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Howard Sherman
Subject Matter
Genres: occult, superhero
Feature(s): Doctor Fate
Character(s): Doctor Fate [Kent Nelson]; Inza Kramer; Bert Wescott; The Dude (villain, introduction)
Synopsis: Inza asks Dr. Fate to help clear a convicted murderer before his scheduled execution time at midnight.
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In Content Item: FlagGolden Age Doctor Fate Archives #1 published September 2007
as The Battle Against Time [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 10
Disclose Notes: Inza's last name given as "Sanders".
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Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Baby Ruth
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Pages: 1
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Crime College

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Mort Weisinger
Penciller(s): George Papp (signed)
Inker(s): George Papp (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): The Green Arrow
Character(s): Green Arrow [Oliver Queen]; Speedy [Roy Harper]; Professor Merlin (villain, introduction)
First Line: When Professor Merlin and his crime college crack down on society...
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Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Story title from reprint in Green Arrow: The Golden Age Omnibus (DC, 2017 series) Volume 1.
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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
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Pages: 1
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Chad Grothkopf
Inker(s): Chad Grothkopf
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: mystery
Feature(s): Radio Squad
Character(s): Radio Squad [Sandy Keene; Larry Trent]
First Line: Mighty trucks rumble through the night...
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Pages: 6
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Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Henry Boltinoff (signed)
Penciller(s): Henry Boltinoff (signed)
Inker(s): Henry Boltinoff (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Henry Boltinoff
Subject Matter
Genres: informational
Feature(s): Facts!
First Line: The world's record blue marlin was caught by a woman...
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Pages: 0.67
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Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Chemcraft
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Pages: 0.33
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Mort Weisinger
Penciller(s): Paul Norris
Inker(s): Paul Norris
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Aquaman
Character(s): Aquaman; Keoki; Loana; Black Jack (villain)
First Line: Swimming deep in the southern seas near his hidden ocean lair...
Synopsis: Black Jack survives his ship's explosion and is rescued by a tribe of South Sea natives who live on a remote island and make him their leader. Black Jack, knowing their greed for money, orders his subjects to unearth treasures of the seabed, but one of his subjects drowns and the other is rescued by Aquaman, who discovers their plans. Aquaman ends Black Jack's plans, but not before facing the shark devil, the protector of the island.
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Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Aquaman has a secret underwater hideout in the Ancient Lost City (of Atlantis?) that he keeps filled with air.
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Good Books for Christmas

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Josette Frank
Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 0.67
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Editorial Advisory Board of the Superman DC Comics

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 0.33
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Mort Weisinger
Penciller(s): Jerry Robinson
Inker(s): Mort Meskin
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Johnny Quick
Character(s): Johnny Quick [Johnny Chambers]; Tubby Watts; J. S. Thorndyke (death); Lefty Burman; Mr. Zero (villain, introduction); Dugan (villain); Trigger Louie (villain)
First Line: Meet Mr. Zero, the man of a million murders, as he races Johnny Quick...
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Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Johnny uses the formula Z 25Y (2AB) 8 to slow down.
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Be Sure Your Christmas Bike Has This Coaster Brake

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Morrow Coaster Brake
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Pages: 0.5
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Prize Comics
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Pages: 0.33
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Penciller(s): ?
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Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 0.17
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Thoroughbred

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Edgar Weston (signed)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
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Pages: 2
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): George Papp
Inker(s): George Papp
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Clip Carson
Character(s): Clip Carson; Jane Daw; Garcia
First Line: Montevideo, the capitol of Uruguay, is a peaceful city...
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Pages: 6
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Jim Corrigan Lives Again

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Jerry Siegel (signed)
Penciller(s): Bernard Baily (signed)
Inker(s): Bernard Baily (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: occult, superhero
Feature(s): The Spectre
Character(s): The Spectre [Jim Corrigan]; Clarice Winston; Percival Popp; Gat Chenney (villain); Armand (villain)
Synopsis: After Popp gets in trouble trying to protect Corrigan from Gat Chenney, the Spectre leaves him on another planet so that he can get a good night's sleep. Meanwhile an artist imprisons Clarice's soul in a painting. The Spectre resurrects Corrigan's body to keep if from being discovered.
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Pages: 10
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And Now the 'Big Seven' Becomes the 'Big Eight'!

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Letterer(s): ?
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Pages: 1
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Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): National Radio Institute
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside back cover.
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Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Daisy Air Rifles
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Back cover.

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