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More Fun Comics 67

MORE FUN COMICS #67

Cover Date: May 1941
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 issue #64; next in flashback in Spectre Annual Vol. 3 #1)

Villain(s):

Deeja Kathoon (first appearance; a black magician who uses spirits to commit crimes; tossed into interdimensional space)

Comment(s):

The Ring of Life prevents The Spectre from killing patients at a hospital.

Story Reprinted in:

Golden Age Spectre Archives #1 (2003)


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Second Story: [No Title] (6 Pages)

Credits:

ArtGeorge Papp
EditingWhitney Ellsworth

Feature Character(s):

Congo Bill (next in Action Comics #37)

Supporting Character(s):

Professor Kent (next in Action Comics #37)

Villain(s):

Gordon Slade (first appearance; a jewel thief; dies)

Location(s):

Southern Africa


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Third Story: [No Title] (6 Pages)

Credits:

StoryEd Winiarski
ArtEd Winiarski
LetteringEd Winiarski
EditingWhitney Ellsworth

Feature Character(s):

Captain Desmo

Supporting Character(s):

Gabby McGuire

Villain(s):

Difaldo (first appearance; a plantation owner who is part of a fifth column ring)
Dr. Mause (no actual appearance; the head of the spy ring)

Other Character(s):

Rina Roberts (first appearance; a newspaper reporter)

Location(s):

Central America

Comment(s):

Winiarski credited as "Win".


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Fourth Story: [No Title] (6 Pages)

Credits:

StoryJerry Siegel
EditingWhitney Ellsworth

Feature Character(s):

Sandy Kean
Larry Trent

Supporting Character(s):

Lorna Drake

Villain(s):

The Evil One (first appearance; a spy for a foreign nation)


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Fifth Story: [No Title] (6 Pages)

Credits:

StoryAlbert Sulman
ArtJoseph Sulman
LetteringJoseph Sulman
EditingWhitney Ellsworth

Feature Character(s):

Biff Bronson

Supporting Character(s):

Dan Druff

Villain(s):

A dentist (first appearance; a spy and leader of a ring of foreigners trying to bring the US into war)


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Sixth Story: [No Title] (6 Pages)

Credits:

StoryGardner Fox
ArtHoward Sherman
LetteringHoward Sherman
EditingWhitney Ellsworth

Feature Character(s):

Doctor Fate (Kent Nelson; also in flashback to 1920; appears here between the panels of DC Special Series #10, All-Star Squadron #47 and Secret Origins Vol. 2 #24/2)

Supporting Character(s):

Inza Cramer
Nabu (first appearance; mentor to Kent Nelson; appears here between panels of Secret Origins of Super-Heroes Special, All-Star Squadron #47 and Secret Origins Vol. 2 #24/2)

Villain(s):

Black Negal (first appearance; ruler of a realm of the dead; next in Countdown to Mystery #1)

Other Character(s):

Sven Nelson (first appearance; Kent's father; dies in flashback)

Location(s):

Fate's Tower
Valley of Ur (location of Nabu's tomb; in flashback only)
New York City, NY

Comment(s):

The details of Doctor Fate's origin change slightly during each retelling.
It is revealed that Doctor Fate meets Inza in Alexandria, Egypt while returning to America.
Sven Nelson was born in 1870 and dies in 1920.

Story Reprinted in:

Justice League of America #95 (December 1971)
DC Special Blue Ribbon Digest #9 (May 1981)
Weird Secret Origins (October 2004)
Golden Age Doctor Fate Archives #1 (2007)


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