New Fun #6 for Sale - First Appearance of Dr. Occult - Where to Buy

Identification plate

Series: New Fun (DC, 1935 series)
Issue: #6
Publication date: October 1935
Key date: 1935-10-00
On-sale date: 1935-09-13
Indicia publisher: National Allied Publications Inc.
Price: $0.10; 0.25 CAD
Pages: 44

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Why this issue matters

First appearance of Dr. Occult - the earliest non-flashback appearance on record for this character.

First appearance of Oswald the Rabbit - the earliest non-flashback appearance on record for this character.

First appearance of Rose Psychic - the earliest non-flashback appearance on record for this character.

First appearance of Henri Duval - the earliest non-flashback appearance on record for this character.

First appearance of The Vampire Master - the earliest non-flashback appearance on record for this character.

First appearance of Sander Amster - the earliest non-flashback appearance on record for this character.

First appearance of Mrs. Amster - the earliest non-flashback appearance on record for this character.

First appearance of Sonny - the earliest non-flashback appearance on record for this character.

First appearance of Bart Moore - the earliest non-flashback appearance on record for this character.

First appearance of Axel Yoke - the earliest non-flashback appearance on record for this character.

First appearance of Captain Kiddlaw - the earliest non-flashback appearance on record for this character.

First appearance of Brut von Henig - the earliest non-flashback appearance on record for this character.

First appearance of Joan Shanley - the earliest non-flashback appearance on record for this character.

First appearance of Renee Avalon - the earliest non-flashback appearance on record for this character.

First appearance of Professor Shanley - the earliest non-flashback appearance on record for this character.

First appearance of Rex Cosmos - the earliest non-flashback appearance on record for this character.

The evidence

Claims here come from the story records for this issue, listed under Sources at the bottom of the file. Character hubs with full evidence tables are coming to this site.

Seq	Story	Type	Pages	Credits	Characters
0	-	cover	1	script: Vin Sullivan; pencils: Vin Sullivan; inks: Vin Sullivan
5	New Fun Big Comic Magazine	table of contents	0.2	letters: typeset
6	The Gavonian Affair, Part 6	comic story	0.8	script: Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson; pencils: Brigham; inks: Brigham	Sandra; Lothar; Reynolds
7	-	comic story	0.2	pencils: W. C. Brigham; inks: W. C. Brigham
8	-	comic story	0.8	pencils: Brig; inks: Brig	Brad Hardy; Prince Kardos; Naga
9	-	comic story	1	script: Ken Fitch; pencils: Clem Gretter; inks: Clem Gretter	Don Drake; Betty
10	In the Wake of the Wander [Part 4]	comic story	1	script: Mac Fergus; pencils: Mac Fergus; inks: Mac Fergus
11	In Far Off China	comic story	1	script: Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson; pencils: Leo E. O'Mealia; inks: Leo E. O'Mealia
12	-	comic story	0.2	script: Tom McNamara; pencils: Tom McNamara; inks: Tom McNamara
13	The Mystery Plane, Part 2	comic story	0.8	script: Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson; pencils: Leo E. O'Mealia; inks: Leo E. O'Mealia
14	-	comic story	0.9	script: Tom Cooper; pencils: Tom Cooper; inks: Tom Cooper
15	Just Bugs	comic story	0.1	script: Tom Cooper; pencils: Tom Cooper; inks: Tom Cooper
16	Manuel Belgrano	comic story	0.2	pencils: W. C. Brigham; inks: W. C. Brigham
17	Damsel in Distress, Part 3	comic story	0.8	script: Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson; pencils: C Brigham; inks: C Brigham
18	Remote Control!	text story	1.25	script: Ken Fitch
19	-	text article	0.5	letters: typeset
20	Stupendous Premium Offer Extended	promo (ad from the publisher)	0.25	script: Rexford May
21	-	text article	0.25	letters: typeset
22	-	comic story	0.75	script: Al Stahl; pencils: Al Stahl; inks: Al Stahl	Oswald the Rabbit First
23	-	text article	0.67	letters: typeset
25	-	letters page	1.33	pencils: ? (photo); inks: ? (photo); letters: typeset	Dick Loederer
26	Indian Ambush, Part 6	comic story	0.67	script: Tom Cooper; pencils: Tom Cooper; inks: Tom Cooper
27	Joe Louis	text article	1	script: Joe Archibald; pencils: Joe Archibald; inks: Joe Archibald	Joe Louis
28	Shavetail Part II	text story	1.5	script: Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson
29	The Haunted House, Part 2	comic story	0.55	script: Randall; pencils: Randall; inks: Randall
30	The First Hundred Years	comic story	0.2	script: Stan Randall; pencils: Stan Randall; inks: Stan Randall
31	-	comic story	0.25	script: Eugene Koscik; pencils: Eugene Koscik; inks: Eugene Koscik
32	-	comic story	0.75	script: Eugene Koscik; pencils: Eugene Koscik; inks: Eugene Koscik
33	Thermopylae	comic story	0.2	script: Ray Wardell; pencils: Ray Wardell; inks: Ray Wardell
34	-	comic story	0.8	script: Ray Wardell; pencils: Ray Wardell; inks: Ray Wardell	Bobby; Binks; Pharaoh Tutankhamen
35	Loafer the Wolf	comic story	0.2	script: Henry Muheim; pencils: Henry Muheim; inks: Henry Muheim
36	Frank of the Frontier	comic story	0.8	script: Muheim; pencils: Muheim; inks: Muheim
37	-	comic story	0.25	script: Tom McNamara; pencils: Tom McNamara; inks: Tom McNamara
38	-	comic story	0.75	script: Tom McNamara; pencils: Tom McNamara; inks: Tom McNamara
39	-	comic story	0.2	script: Vin Sullivan; pencils: Vin Sullivan; inks: Vin Sullivan
40	-	comic story	0.8	script: Henry Kiefer; pencils: Henry Kiefer; inks: Henry Kiefer	Wing Brady; Slim
41	-	comic story	1	script: Jerome Siegel; pencils: Joe Shuster; inks: Joe Shuster	Henri Duval First
42	-	text article	0.67	pencils: Dick Loederer; inks: Dick Loederer
43	The Top Cross-Word Puzzle	activity	0.33	letters: typeset
44	-	text article	0.33	letters: typeset
45	Lesson No. II Construction: The Face	activity	0.17	script: Charles Shows; pencils: Charles Shows; inks: Charles Shows
46	-	cartoon	0.25	script: Joe Archibald; pencils: Joe Archibald; inks: Joe Archibald
47	Answer to Fun's Cross-Word Puzzle for August	activity	0.06	letters: typeset
48	Know Your Birds	text article	0.07	letters: typeset
49	Riddle Me Another	text article	0.03	letters: typeset
51	-	comic story	0.2	script: Vin Sullivan; pencils: Vin Sullivan; inks: Vin Sullivan
52	-	comic story	0.8	script: Vin Sullivan; pencils: Vin Sullivan; inks: Vin Sullivan
53	-	comic story	0.9	script: Leger; pencils: Reuths; inks: Reuths	Mrs. Amster First, Sander Amster First, Dr. Occult First, Rose Psychic First, Bart Moore First, The Vampire Master First
55	-	comic story	0.55	script: Stan Randall; pencils: Stan Randall; inks: Stan Randall
56	Try an' Get It	comic story	0.2	script: Stan Randall; pencils: Stan Randall; inks: Stan Randall
57	Join the Treasure Hunt Contest	activity	1	pencils: W. C. Brigham; inks: W. C. Brigham
58	Solve These Puzzles	activity	0.9	script: Matt Curzon; pencils: Matt Curzon; inks: Matt Curzon; letters: Matt Curzon
60	The Organ Grinder	text story	1	script: Connie Naar; pencils: CN; inks: CN
61	Oscar	comic story	0.1	script: John Patterson; pencils: John Patterson; inks: John Patterson; letters: John Patterson
62	-	comic story	0.8	script: John Patterson; pencils: John Patterson; inks: John Patterson
63	-	promo (ad from the publisher)	0.05	letters: typeset
65	-	comic story	1	script: Al Whitney; pencils: Al Whitney; inks: Al Whitney
66	Episode 6	comic story	0.9	script: Sir Walter Scott, Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson; pencils: Raymond Perry; inks: Raymond Perry	Prince John
67	-	comic story	0.1
68	-	comic story	0.2	script: Vin Sullivan; pencils: Vin Sullivan; inks: Vin Sullivan; letters: Vin Sullivan
69	Episode 2	comic story	0.8	script: Robert Louis Stevenson; pencils: Charles Flanders; inks: Charles Flanders
70	-	comic story	0.2	script: Vin Sullivan; pencils: Vin Sullivan; inks: Vin Sullivan
71	Prince of Patrania, Part 4	comic story	0.8	script: Vincent Sullivan; pencils: Vincent Sullivan; inks: Vincent Sullivan
72	-	comic story	0.2	script: Whitney Ellsworth; pencils: Whitney Ellsworth; inks: Whitney Ellsworth	Sonny First
73	-	comic story	0.8	script: Whitney Ellsworth; pencils: Whitney Ellsworth; inks: Whitney Ellsworth
74	-	comic story	0.5	script: Tom Cooper; pencils: Tom Cooper; inks: Tom Cooper
75	Dewey and the Pirates, Part 3	comic story	0.5	script: Dick Loederer; pencils: Dick Loederer; inks: Dick Loederer	Jack Dewey
76	Doubtful Dave	comic story	0.2	script: Al Stahl; pencils: Al Stahl; inks: Al Stahl
77	-	comic story	0.8	script: Al Stahl; pencils: Al Stahl; inks: Al Stahl
78	-	comic story	1	script: Ken Fitch; pencils: Clem Gretter; inks: Clem Gretter	Renee Avalon First, Rex Cosmos First, Captain Kiddlaw First, Joan Shanley First, Professor Shanley First, Brut von Henig First, Axel Yoke First

Plus 3.67 pages of advertisements and other matter across 11 sequences, as published.

Where to read it

Collection	Year
Cavalier Comics #2	1945	On eBay ›

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Series context

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Sources

Grand Comics Database, issue record (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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