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89March 1943
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More Fun Comics #89

DC · March 1943 · on sale 1943-01-12

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Series
More Fun Comics (DC, 1936 series)
Issue
#89
Publication date
March 1943
Key date
1943-03-00
On-sale date
1943-01-12
Indicia publisher
Detective Comics Inc.
Price
$0.10
Pages
68

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Contents

SeqStoryTypePagesCreditsCharacters
0Birth of the Battling Bowmen!cover1pencils: Cliff Young; inks: Cliff YoungGreen Arrow; Speedy
1Editorial Advisory Boardpromo (ad from the publisher)0.33letters: typeset
2Piang, the Moro Chieftainin-house column0.67script: Josette Frank, James Ross Smith
3The Birth of the Battling Bowmencomic story13script: Joe Samachson; pencils: Cliff Young; inks: Steve BrodieGreen Arrow [Oliver Queen]; Speedy [Roy Harper]; Quoag
4-comic story0.5script: Henry Boltinoff; pencils: Henry Boltinoff; inks: Henry Boltinoff; letters: Henry Boltinoff
6Lennycomic story1Lenny
7The Case of the Crystal Crimescomic story10script: Joe Samachson; pencils: Howard Sherman; inks: Howard ShermanDoctor Fate [Kent Nelson]; Krishna Das (villain); Inza Carmer
8Gagscartoon0.5script: Henry Boltinoff; pencils: Henry Boltinoff; inks: Henry Boltinoff; letters: Henry Boltinoff
11The Streamlined Buccaneers!comic story10script: Joseph Greene; pencils: Louis Cazeneuve; inks: Louis CazeneuveAquaman; Black Jack (villain); Ark the seal
12The Battletext story2script: Warner Wilson
13Prescription for Plundercomic story11script: Don C. Cameron; pencils: Mort Meskin; inks: Charles ParisJohnny Quick [Johnny Chambers]; Dr. Clever (Villain); Tubby Watts
14-comic story0.44script: Henry Boltinoff; pencils: Henry Boltinoff; inks: Henry Boltinoff; letters: Henry Boltinoff
16Statement of the Ownership, Management, Circulation, etc.statement of ownership0.33script: Jack Liebowitz
17Attempted Assassinationtext article1script: Sidney M. Elias
18The Junior Justice Society of Americapromo (ad from the publisher)1letters: typeset
19The Underworld Goes Overweightcomic story10script: Gardner Fox; pencils: Bernard Baily; inks: Bernard BailyThe Spectre [Jim Corrigan]; Percival Popp; Grabby Gus Nelson (villain)
20-promo (ad from the publisher)1

Plus 4.22 pages of advertisements and other matter across 6 sequences, as published.

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