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MORE FUN COMICS #86

Cover Date: December 1942
Cover Price: $.10

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Cover Credits:
Art: Mort Meskin

Story: "The Man Who Purchased Lives" (13 Pages)

Credits:

Pencils	Cliff Young
Inks	Steve Brody
Editing	Mort Weisinger

Feature Character(s):

Green Arrow

Speedy

Villain(s):

Mr. Mephisto (Dogfoot; first appearance; gets hobos to commit crimes for him by posing as Mephistopheles; dies)

Comment(s):

The characters in this story are the Earth-2 Green Arrow and Speedy.

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Second Story: "The Man Who Wanted No Medals" (10 Pages)

Credits:

Story	Gardner Fox
Art	Howard Sherman
Lettering	Howard Sherman
Editing	Mort Weisinger

Feature Character(s):

Doctor Fate (last in Young All-Stars Annual #1; next in All-Star Comics #14/Young All-Stars #27)

Supporting Character(s):

Inza Cramer (not named, but a nurse is shown and also accompanies him to an awards banquet; next in All-Star Comics #15/flashback in Starman Vol. 2 #69)

Location(s):

New York City, NY

Story Reprinted in:

Golden Age Doctor Fate Archives #1 (2007)

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Third Story: "Hook, Line and Thinker!" (6 Pages)

Credits:

Art	Cliff Young
Editing	Mort Weisinger

Feature Character(s):

Sandy Kean

Larry Trent

Villain(s):

Bank robbers (first appearance for all)

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Fourth Story: "Race Around The World" (10 Pages)

Credits:

Story	Joseph Greene
Art	Louis Cazeneuve
Lettering	Louis Cazeneuve
Editing	Mort Weisinger

Feature Character(s):

Aquaman

Villain(s):

Black Jack

Location(s):

Hollywood, CA

Cape of Good Hope, Africa

Indian Ocean

Comment(s):

The Aquaman seen here is the Earth-Two version.

Joseph Greene credited as writer.

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Fifth Story: "Four Hundred Years in a Day!" (8 Pages)

Credits:

Pencils	Mort Meskin
Inks	Cliff Young
Lettering	Mort Meskin
Editing	Mort Weisinger

Feature Character(s):

Johnny Quick

Supporting Character(s):

Tubby Watts

Villain(s):

Tapper and Gus Schmaltz (first appearance for both; two crooks who hide out in a club for elderly men trying to complete hundred-year projects)

Comment(s):

Mort Meskin credited as Mort Morton, Jr..

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Sixth Story: "The Man Who Knew All The Angles!" (10 Pages)

Credits:

Story	Jerry Siegel
Art	Bernard Baily
Lettering	Howard Ferguson
Editing	Mort Weisinger

Feature Character(s):

Spectre (next in All-Star Comics #14/Young All-Stars #27)

Supporting Character(s):

Percival Popp

Villain(s):

Smokey Storey (first appearance; a crook who has "all the angles")

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