More Fun Comics #80

(June 1942)

The Script Calls for Murder (Table of Contents)

Green Arrow / comic story / 13 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Mort Weisinger ?

Pencils:

George Papp (signed)

Inks:

George Papp (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Green Arrow [Oliver Queen]; Speedy [Roy Harper]; Laura Dells

Synopsis:

Green Arrow agrees to be a stunt double on a motion picture, but someone seems to be sabotaging the whole operation.

Indexer Notes

Green Arrow lives in "a great metropolis on the Eastern Seaboard". Writer id by Bob Hughes.

[The Octopus] (Table of Contents)

Doctor Fate / comic story / 10 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Gardner F. Fox

Pencils:

Howard Sherman

Inks:

Howard Sherman

Colors:

?

Letters:

Howard Sherman

Content Information

Genre:

occult; superhero

Characters:

Doctor Fate [Kent Nelson]; Inza Kramer; The Octopus (Villain)

Synopsis:

The Octopus uses his amazing spray gun to condense the gases in the air to form dark clouds. He creates a phony amusement park run by crooks to use that ability to obtain signatures of wealthy people in order to forge their names.

Reprints: show reprint note before migration

• in Golden Age Doctor Fate Archives (DC, 2007 series) #1 ([July] 2007)

Indexer Notes

Fate wears half-helmet. Letterer credit & synopsis added by Craig Delich 12-07-07.

Case of the Bearded Bandits (Table of Contents)

Radio Squad / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Cliff Young

Inks:

Cliff Young

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

detective-mystery

Characters:

Radio Squad [Larry Trent; Sandy Keene]

Scourge of the Seven Seas (Table of Contents)

Aquaman / comic story / 10 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Mort Weisinger ?

Pencils:

Paul Norris

Inks:

Paul Norris

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Aquaman; Black Jack (Villain)

Indexer Notes

Writer id by Bob Hughes. Golden Age Aquaman is not Arthur Curry. His real name is unknown.

Something Heavy (Table of Contents)

text story / 2.5 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Eric Carter (signed)

Letters:

typeset

Content Information

Genre:

adventure

Adventure of the Vanished Voice (Table of Contents)

Johnny Quick / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Mort Weisinger ?

Pencils:

Mort Meskin [signed as Mort Morton Jr.]

Inks:

Mort Meskin [signed as Mort Morton Jr.]

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Johnny Quick [Johnny Chambers]; Tubby Watts; The Adder (Villain)

Synopsis:

Johnny gets laryngitis and can't say his magic formula.

Indexer Notes

Writer id by Bob Hughes. Full of Weisingerisms like "human projectile of mercy" "Mile a moment marvel of all time"

The King of Color (Table of Contents)

Spectre / comic story / 10 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Jerry Siegel

Pencils:

Bernard Baily

Inks:

Bernard Baily

Colors:

?

Letters:

Bernard Baily

Content Information

Genre:

occult; superhero

Characters:

Spectre [Jim Corrigan]; Spectrum (Villain); Percival Popp; Clarice Winston; Bubbles Twinkletoes

Indexer Notes

Letterer credit added by Craig Delich.