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Issue: More Fun Comics #78
Publication Date: April 1942
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Issues: #78 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: 02/17/1942
Volume: none
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 21 (11 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
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
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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Green Arrow; Speedy
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Pages: 1
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Editorial Advisory Board

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Pages: 0.33
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Liberty of Death

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Feature(s): Good Books Worth Reading
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Pages: 0.67
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The Black Raider!

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Green Arrow [Oliver Queen]; Speedy [Roy Harper]; Black Raider (boat); Captain Kilgore (villain); Johnny James
Synopsis: Green Arrow battles pirates on the high seas.
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Pages: 13
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Genres: humorous
First Line: This sea life is great
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Feature(s): All-Star Comics
First Line: 500 years into the future...
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The Wax Museum Killers

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Genres: occult, superhero
Character(s): Doctor Fate [Kent Nelson]; Inza Carmer; Goliath (villain); Jesse James; Nero; Captain Kidd
Synopsis: Doctor Fate must face the prospect of battling wax figures of history's greatest villains that have come to life.
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In Content Item: FlagGolden Age Doctor Fate Archives #1 published September 2007
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Pages: 10
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Feature(s): "Super" Duper; Canada Dry Ginger Ale
First Line: Gosh! That ice cream hi-ball tasted good!
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The Case of the Phantom Fugitive

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Genres: mystery
Character(s): James Hart; Lois Hart; Joe Leeds; Pete
First Line: Twice the desperate young man escaped from the police, who suspected him of kidnapping a banker's daughter -- and the second time meant trouble at headquarters for Larry Trent and Sandy Keene, radio squad aces --- the way out of that trouble led...
Synopsis: A banker's daughter is kidnapped and her boyfriend is the prime suspect.
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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Aquaman; Master Sargasso (villain)
First Line: The Sargasso Sea! Unfathomable wonder of the waters!
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Pages: 10
Disclose Notes: Writer from Bails' Who's Who. Confirmed by excessive use of passive voice and run on sentences held together by ellipses.
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Strange Acquaintance

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Letterer(s): typeset
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Genres: adventure
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Pages: 1.7
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Genres: humorous
First Line: Boy- That's the life!?
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Death's Dividends

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Johnny Quick [Johnny Chambers]; Dr. Clever (villain); Tubby Watts; A. V. Keith; Silky Smith; Cannonball Carter
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Pages: 8
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Genres: humorous
First Line: No Swimming
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Genres: humorous, military
First Line: There - This bear trap ought to catch any spies luring around...
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Feature(s): Prize Comics
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Feature(s): Adventure Comics
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The Magic Crimes

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Genres: occult, superhero
Character(s): The Spectre [Jim Corrigan]; The Glowing One (villain); Percival Popp; Kati Lugi
Synopsis: Kati Lugi hires Popp to help with his magic act, but a spook called the Glowing One keeps interrupting and robbing the audience...or is it Popp that's doing the robbing?
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Now on Sale

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Letterer(s): typeset
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Feature(s): Baby Ruth
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Back cover.

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