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More Fun Comics 98

MORE FUN COMICS #98

Cover Date: July-August 1944
Cover Price: $.10

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Cover Credits:
Art: Cliff Young, Henry Boltinoff


Story: "Cartoons of Crime" (10 Pages)

Credits:

StoryGardner Fox
ArtBernard Baily
EditingJack Schiff

Feature Character(s):

Spectre Force (last in All-Star Comics #21; see Comments for the Spectre story in #90/6)

Supporting Character(s):

Percival Popp

Villain(s):

Thieves (first appearance for all; try to rob a cartoon studio)


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Story: "The Fabulous Fawn!" (11 Pages)

Credits:

StoryAlvin Schwartz
PencilsCliff Young
InksSteve Brody
EditingJack Schiff

Feature Character(s):

Green Arrow (last in World's Finest Comics #14/2)
Speedy (last in World's Finest Comics #14/2)

Villain(s):

Phineas Tripp (first appearance; steals gold and smuggles it out molded as ornamental deer)

Comment(s):

The characters in this story are the Earth-2 Green Arrow and Speedy.
Arrowplane now called the Arrowcar.


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Third Story: "Tall, Slim and Handsome!" (11 Pages)

Credits:

StoryDon Cameron
ArtMort Meskin
EditingJack Schiff

Feature Character(s):

Johnny Quick

Supporting Character(s):

Tubby Watts

Villain(s):

Doc Filtch and his gang (first appearance for all; a crook who uses cure-all medicine to knock out potential victims before robbing their homes)


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Fourth Story: "The Bashful King of Crime!" (6 Pages)

Credits:

ArtJon Chester Kozlak
EditingJack Schiff

Feature Character(s):

Doctor Fate (next in Green Lantern: Brightest Day, Blackest Night)

Villain(s):

Stumpy Small (first appearance; a midget crook)

Other Character(s):

Henry Halfpint (first appearance; a small child that resembles Stumpy)

Comment(s):

This is the final solo Doctor Fate story published in the Golden Age.
At some point between this story and his next appearance, Kent Nelson reacquires the Helmet of Nabu, his cloak and the majority of his mystical abilities. How these things happen has not yet been revealed.

Story Reprinted in:

Golden Age Doctor Fate Archives #1 (2007)


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Fifth Story: "Treasure of The Deep!" (8 Pages)

Credits:

StoryJoe Samachson
ArtLouis Cazeneuve
LetteringLouis Cazeneuve
EditingJack Schiff

Feature Character(s):

Aquaman

Villain(s):

Sponsler (first appearance; a swindler)

Other Character(s):

Phineas Blodgett (first appearance; tries to extract gold from sea water)

Comment(s):

The Aquaman seen here is the Earth-Two version.


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