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MORE FUN COMICS #71

Cover Date: September 1941
Cover Price: $.10

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Cover Credits:
Art: Howard Sherman


Story: [No Title] (10 Pages)

Credits:

StoryJerry Siegel
ArtBernard Baily
LetteringBernard Baily
EditingMort Weisinger

Feature Character(s):

Spectre (last in All-Star Comics #6; temporarily transforms into Tom Grant)

Supporting Character(s):

Clarice Winston (between issue #66 and #73/5)

Villain(s):

Allan Tracy (first appearance; best man and a jealous suitor)
Tracy's hired thug (first appearance; shot into interstellar space)

Other Character(s):

Tom Grant and Barbara Newsome (first appearance; an engaged couple who are friends with Corrigan and Winston)
Clyde Wyckliff (first appearance; a jealous suitor)

Comment(s):

The Spectre's powers are weakened due to an stellar alignment.


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Second Story: "The Riddle of the Crying Clown!" (8 Pages)

Credits:

StoryMort Weisinger
ArtChad Grothkopf
LetteringChad Grothkopf
EditingMort Weisinger

Feature Character(s):

Johnny Quick (first appearance; a cameraman for Sees All / Tells All News; also in flashback to his youth and in All-Star Squadron #65 between panels; last in flashback in Secret Origins Vol. 2 #12)

Supporting Character(s):

Tubby Watts (first appearance; a cameraman for Sees All / Tells All News; also in flashback in All-Star Squadron #65 between panels; last in Secret Origins Vol. 2 #7/2)

Villain(s):

Caeser (Sam Leroy; a crooked circus owner)

Other Character(s):

Professor Gill (first appearance; in flashback only; Johnny's guardian; teaches Johnny the Speed Formula)
Sinestro the Lion Tamer (first appearance; a member of the Metropolitan Circus)

Comment(s):

The artist credited here is just a best guess.
The four previous cases shown here are later revealed to be just daydreams. This is considered to be Johnny Quick's first case.


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Third Story: [No Title] (6 Pages)

Credits:

PencilsChad Grothkopf
LetteringChad Grothkopf
EditingMort Weisinger

Feature Character(s):

Sandy Kean
Larry Trent

Villain(s):

Sam Shade (first appearance; a art thief)


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Fourth Story: [No Title] (6 Pages)

Credits:

ArtCliff Young
LetteringCliff Young
EditingMort Weisinger

Feature Character(s):

Captain Desmo

Supporting Character(s):

Gabby McGuire

Villain(s):

Big Ears Mulligan (first appearance; a gangster who tries to hide his loot)

Location(s):

West Coast


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Fifth Story: [No Title] (10 Pages)

Credits:

StoryGardner Fox
ArtHoward Sherman
LetteringHoward Sherman
EditingWhitney Ellsworth

Feature Character(s):

Doctor Fate (Kent Nelson; between All-Star Comics #6 and #7)

Supporting Character(s):

Inza Cramer (between All-Star Comics #6 and #7)

Villain(s):

Adam Igorovich (first appearance; builds powerful electromagnets that stop the Earth's rotation; dies?)
Nickolai (first appearance; Igorovich's assistant; dies?)

Location(s):

Fate's Tower
New York City, NY

Comment(s):

This is the last story with Doctor Fate's full helmet.

Story Reprinted in:

Golden Age Doctor Fate Archives #1 (2007)


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