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Issue: More Fun Comics #81
Publication Date: July 1942
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Issues: #81 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: 05/16/1942
Volume: none
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 21 (9 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: Full Color, Duotone, and Black and White (#9-47); Full Color (#48 onwards)
Dimensions: Standard Golden Age U.S.
Paper Stock: Newsprint Interior, Paper Covers (#9-11); Glossy Covers (#12 onwards)
Binding: Saddle-Stitched
Publishing Format: Was ongoing series
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Crime, Incoporated

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Writer(s): ?
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; Speedy
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Editorial Advisory Board

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 0.33
Disclose Notes: Inside front cover.
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Anything Can Happen on the River!

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Josette Frank
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Good Books Worth Reading
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 0.67
Disclose Notes: Inside front cover.
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The Adventure of the Bankrupt Heroes!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Mort Weisinger ?
Penciller(s): George Papp
Inker(s): George Papp
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): The Green Arrow
Character(s): Green Arrow [Oliver Queen]; Speedy [Roy Harper]; Crime, Incorporated (villain)
Synopsis: Oliver has to take a job in a department store when stock market reverses tie up his fortune.
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Pages: 13
Disclose Notes: Green Arrow is blond and Speedy has red hair in this story.
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[untitled]

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): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Laffs
First Line: Well, now that we're here, what do we do?
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Pages: 0.5
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[untitled]

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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): All-Star Comics
First Line: War calls the Justice Society into action!
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Pages: 0.5
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Hall of Lost Heirs

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]; The Clock (villain); Inza Kramer; Stanley Kovacks; Erna Hanley; Hector Borne; Taggart
Synopsis: The Clock supplies phoney lost heirs to collect millions in legacies and kidnaps the real heirs so they can't interfere.
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In Content Item: FlagGolden Age Doctor Fate Archives #1 published September 2007
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Pages: 10
Disclose Notes: Fate wears half-helmet.
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[untitled]

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Popsicle
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Pages: 1
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Joe Samachson ?
Penciller(s): Louis Cazeneuve
Inker(s): Arturo Cazeneuve
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: mystery
Feature(s): Radio Squad
Character(s): Radio Squad [Larry Trent; Sandy Keene]; Leopardess (villain); Irish
First Line: What queer quirk of fate sent gangsters to the hospital?
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Pages: 6
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Champ of the Waves

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Paul Norris
Inker(s): Paul Norris
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Aquaman
Character(s): Aquaman; Dotty; George Riggs; Humber; Roder
Synopsis: Aquaman helps a young man who can't swim win a crooked swimming race.
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Pages: 10
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Hero's Death

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): John Hilton (credited)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
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Pages: 2
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[untitled]

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 0.22
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Henry Boltinoff (signed)
Penciller(s): Henry Boltinoff (signed)
Inker(s): Henry Boltinoff (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, military
Feature(s): Private Pete
First Line: Here we go off on a long hike again!
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Pages: 0.44
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Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Prize Comics
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Pages: 0.33
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Code for Conspirators

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Don C. Cameron ?
Penciller(s): Mort Meskin [as Mort Morton] (signed)
Inker(s): Cliff Young (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Johnny Quick
Character(s): Johnny Quick [Johnny Chambers]; Tubby Watts; Kloven (villain)
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Pages: 8
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Morrow Coaster Brake
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Pages: 0.5
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Henry Boltinoff (signed)
Penciller(s): Henry Boltinoff (signed)
Inker(s): Henry Boltinoff (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Shorty
First Line: It's a swell night!
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Pages: 0.5
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The Case of the Scholarly Spendthrift

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): Bernard Baily
Subject Matter
Genres: occult, superhero
Feature(s): The Spectre
Character(s): The Spectre [Jim Corrigan]; Percival Popp; Claudius Harmon; Sport O'Dea
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Pages: 10
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Now on Sale

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Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
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[untitled]

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Daisy Air Rifles
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside back cover.
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The Tootsie Roll of Honor

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
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Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Tootsie Rolls
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Back cover.

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