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Issue: More Fun Comics #97
Publication Date: May 1944
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Issues: #97 of 119 Issues (121 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagDC
Brand: A Superman DC PublicationView Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: Detective Comics Inc.
On Sale Date: 03/21/1944
Volume: none
Pages: 60
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 19 (8 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Whitney Ellsworth [as F. W. Ellsworth] (credited editor); Jack Schiff (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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When Archers Meet!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): Cliff Young (signed)
Inker(s): Cliff Young (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): The Green Arrow
Character(s): Green Arrow; Speedy
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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): The Weather Man
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside front cover.
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When Archers Meet!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Joe Samachson
Penciller(s): Cliff Young (signed)
Inker(s): Steve Brodie (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): The Green Arrow
Character(s): Green Arrow [Oliver Queen]; Speedy [Roy Harper]; Professor Million (villain)
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 11
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Ray Houlihan
Penciller(s): Ray Houlihan
Inker(s): Ray Houlihan
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, military
Feature(s): Hank the Yank
First Line: Hank, you guard this section!
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Pages: 1
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Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Wheaties
First Line: A guide tol' me she lost 'em in a Athens boarding house...
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Pages: 1
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Trouble at Forty Below!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Don C. Cameron
Penciller(s): Mort Meskin [as Mort Morton Jr.] (signed)
Inker(s): Joe Kubert [as Joe] (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Johnny Quick
Character(s): Johnny Quick [Johnny Chambers]; Tubby Watts; Zero Hawkes (villain)
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Pages: 11
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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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Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Ray Houlihan
Penciller(s): Ray Houlihan
Inker(s): Ray Houlihan
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Life's Little Laffs
First Line: Construction- Admission 10¢
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Pages: 1
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Pharoah's Lamp!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Joe Samachson
Penciller(s): Jon Chester Kozlak
Inker(s): Jon Chester Kozlak
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: occult, superhero
Feature(s): Doctor Fate
Character(s): Doctor Fate [Kent Nelson]; Hairless Harry (villain); Tupper; Dane
Synopsis: A Mr. Tupper gains control over a valuable lamp that supposedly carries the curse of a Pharaoh, leading one Hairless Harry to attempt to get it and Fate out to prove the curse is phony!
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In Content Item: FlagGolden Age Doctor Fate Archives #1 published September 2007
as Pharoah's Lamp [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 5.67
Disclose Notes: Writer ID by Samachson's trademark "EEEHHH".
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Look for This Trademark!

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
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Pages: 0.33
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Penguin Island!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Joe Samachson
Penciller(s): Louis Cazeneuve
Inker(s): Louis Cazeneuve
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Aquaman
Character(s): Aquaman; Archibald; Thomas; Alicia; Phillip
Synopsis: Uncle Archibald, tired of the world and its greed, retires to a south sea island to be alone, but his nieces and nephews won't leave him be.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
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Vendetta

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Ivan Arlen (credited)
Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 2
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Goo Goo the Great!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Whitney Ellsworth
Penciller(s): Henry Boltinoff
Inker(s): Henry Boltinoff
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Dover and Clover
Character(s): Dover; Clover
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Pages: 4
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In Paper There Is Power

Public Service Announcement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Jerry Robinson
Inker(s): Jerry Robinson
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: opinion, superhero
Feature(s): Batman and Robin
Character(s): Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Johnny Smith
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Pages: 1
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Nerves Take a Holiday!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Gardner Fox ?
Penciller(s): Bernard Baily
Inker(s): Bernard Baily
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: occult, superhero
Feature(s): The Spectre with Percival Popp, the Super-Cop
Character(s): The Spectre [Jim Corrigan]; Percival Popp; Tack Lawson; Hjalmar Dane (villain)
Synopsis: A neurologist invents a ray gun which paralyzes people's muscles, just the thing for a bank robber.
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Pages: 7.67
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Public Service Announcement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: opinion
First Line: Excellent statue of true friend of Japan!
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Pages: 0.33
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Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Invention Company
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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): Let's Go to College
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside back cover.
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Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Frank Beaven (signed)
Inker(s): Frank Beaven (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Eveready
First Line: Tell the Mess Sergeant to look up the recipe for turtle soup.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Back cover.

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