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MORE FUN COMICS #55

Cover Date: May 1940
Cover Price: $.10

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Cover Credits:
Art: Bernard Baily (signed)


Story: [No Title] (10 Pages)

Credits:

StoryJerry Siegel
ArtBernard Baily
LetteringBernard Baily
EditingWhitney Ellsworth

Feature Character(s):

Spectre

Supporting Character(s):

Waylon Grant (last in flashback in Spectre Vol. 3 #24; next in issue #57)
Clarice Winston (next in issue #57)
Voice

Villain(s):

Simmons (first appearance; a crooked bookkeeper)
Zor (first appearance; a mystical being; next in issue #57)

Other Character(s):

Mrs. Winston

Location(s):

New York City, NY
An unnamed dimension (home of Zor's Castle)

Story Reprinted in:

DC 100-Page Super Spectacular #6 (1971)
Golden Age Spectre Archives #1 (2003)


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Second Story: [No Title] (10 Pages)

Credits:

StoryAlbert Sulman
ArtJoseph Sulman
LetteringJoseph Sulman
EditingWhitney Ellsworth

Feature Character(s):

Biff Bronson

Supporting Character(s):

Dan Druff

Villain(s):

Three con artists (first appearance for all three)

Other Character(s):

Mrs. Druff (Dan's mother)

Location(s):

New York City, NY


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Third Story: "Doctor Fate" (6 Pages)

Credits:

StoryGardner Fox
ArtHoward Sherman
LetteringHoward Sherman
EditingWhitney Ellsworth

Feature Character(s):

Doctor Fate (Kent Nelson; first appearance; a sorcerer who has mastered the mystical abilities of matter and energy conversion; last in flashback in Secret Origins Vol. 2 #24/2)

Supporting Character(s):

Inza Cramer (first appearance; Doctor Fate's agent in the mortal world; last in flashback in Secret Origins Vol. 2 #24/2)

Villain(s):

Wotan (first appearance; a mighty sorcerer who also uses super-science; last in flashback in Secret Origins Vol. 2 #24/2)

Other Character(s):

Thomas Frawley (first appearance; hypnotized by Wotan to attack Inza)

Location(s):

Boston, MA

Comment(s):

This story is also retold in Secret Origins Vol. 2 #24/2 with new details.

Story Reprinted in:

Golden Age Doctor Fate Archives #1 (2007)


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Fourth Story: [No Title] (10 Pages)

Credits:

StoryEd Winiarski
ArtEd Winiarski
LetteringEd Winiarski
EditingWhitney Ellsworth

Feature Character(s):

Captain Desmo

Supporting Character(s):

Gabby

Villain(s):

Society of Assassins (headed by the Grand Assassin)

Other Character(s):

Joyce Allen (first appearance)
Mr. Allen (first appearance; Joyce's father)

Location(s):

Algiers, Algeria

Comment(s):

Winiarski credited as "Win".


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Fifth Story: [No Title] (6 Pages)

Credits:

StoryJerry Siegel
ArtChad Grothkopf
EditingWhitney Ellsworth

Feature Character(s):

Sandy Kean
Larry Trent

Villain(s):

Derek Morley (first appearance; goes on a killing spree)


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