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Issue: More Fun Comics #80
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Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagDC
Indicia Publisher: Detective Comics Inc.
On Sale Date: 04/18/1942
Volume: none
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 19 (7 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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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
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Assets1
 
 
[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
George Papp
George Papp
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Subject Matter
superhero
The Green Arrow
Green Arrow; Speedy
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Miscellaneous
1
[untitled]

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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typeset
Subject Matter
Daisy Air Rifles
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Miscellaneous
1
Inside front cover.
The Script Calls for Murder

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Mort Weisinger ?
George Papp (signed)
George Papp (signed)
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Subject Matter
superhero
The Green Arrow
Green Arrow [Oliver Queen]; Speedy [Roy Harper]; Laura Dells
Green Arrow agrees to be a stunt double on a motion picture, but someone seems to be sabotaging the whole operation.
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Miscellaneous
13
Green Arrow lives in "a great metropolis on the Eastern Seaboard".
[untitled]

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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Subject Matter
Leading Comics
Meet the Green Arrow...
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Miscellaneous
0.5
[untitled]

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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Subject Matter
All-Star Comics
War calls the Justice Society into action!
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Miscellaneous
0.5
The Octopus

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Gardner Fox
Howard Sherman
Howard Sherman
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Howard Sherman
Subject Matter
occult, superhero
Doctor Fate
Doctor Fate [Kent Nelson]; Inza Kramer; The Octopus (villain)
The Octopus uses his amazing spray gun to condense the gases in the air to form dark clouds. He creates a phony amusement park run by crooks to use that ability to obtain signatures of wealthy people in order to forge their names.
Reprinting
FlagGolden Age Doctor Fate Archives #1 published September 2007
as The Octopus [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
10
Fate wears half-helmet.
[untitled]

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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typeset
Subject Matter
Popsicle
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Miscellaneous
1
The Case of the Bearded Bandits!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Cliff Young
Cliff Young
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?
Subject Matter
mystery
Radio Squad
Radio Squad [Larry Trent; Sandy Keene]
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Miscellaneous
6
The Scourge of the Seven Seas

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Mort Weisinger ?
Paul Norris
Paul Norris
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Subject Matter
superhero
Aquaman
Aquaman; Black Jack (villain)
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Miscellaneous
10
Golden Age Aquaman is not Arthur Curry. His real name is unknown.
Something Heavy

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Eric Carter (credited)
typeset
Subject Matter
adventure
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
1.8
[untitled]

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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typeset
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Miscellaneous
0.2
Editorial Advisory Board

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
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typeset
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Miscellaneous
0.33
[untitled]

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Josette Frank
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typeset
Subject Matter
Good Books Worth Reading
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Miscellaneous
0.67
The Adventure of the Vanished Voice!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Mort Weisinger ?
Mort Meskin [as Mort Morton Jr.] (signed)
Mort Meskin [as Mort Morton Jr.] (signed)
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?
Subject Matter
superhero
Johnny Quick
Johnny Quick [Johnny Chambers]; Tubby Watts; The Adder (villain)
Johnny gets laryngitis and can't say his magic formula.
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Miscellaneous
8
Full of Weisingerisms like "human projectile of mercy" and "Mile a moment marvel of all time"
[untitled]

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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typeset
Subject Matter
Baby Ruth
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Miscellaneous
1
King of Color

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Jerry Siegel (signed)
Bernard Baily (signed)
Bernard Baily (signed)
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Bernard Baily
Subject Matter
occult, superhero
The Spectre
Spectre [Jim Corrigan]; Spectrum (villain); Percival Popp; Clarice Winston; Bubbles Twinkletoes
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Miscellaneous
10
Now on Sale

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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Miscellaneous
1
[untitled]

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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typeset
Subject Matter
Muscle Power Co.
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Miscellaneous
1
Inside back cover.
[untitled]

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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typeset
Subject Matter
Spencer Fireworks Company
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Miscellaneous
1
Back cover.

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