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Issue Details

Issue #73
Published November 1941
Cover Price 0.10
Pages 68
Editing Whitney Ellsworth (credited); Mort Weisinger (actual)

Cover Details

Characters Dr. Fate
Genre occult; superhero
Pencils Howard Sherman
Inks Howard Sherman
Reprinted in Golden Age Doctor Fate Archives (DC, 2007 series) #1; in Millennium Edition: More Fun Comics 73 (DC, 2001 series) #nn

10 page Doctor Fate story "Mr. Who"

Characters Dr. Fate [Kent Nelson]; intro & origin Mr. Who.
Synopsis Dr. Fate faces the threat of a new criminal who has created "Solution Z", with which he can grow to a tremendous size and become invisible.
Genre superhero; occult
Script Gardner F. Fox
Pencils Howard Sherman
Inks Howard Sherman
Letters Howard Sherman
Notes Fate wears half-mask. The series takes a pretty strong change in direction at this point, as Dr. Fate acts as a traditional super-hero, punching and wisecracking, rather than spouting on about matter and energy and astral planes and such. Synopsis added by Craig Delich 11-29-07.
Reprinted in Wanted. The World's Most Dangerous Villains (DC, 1972 series) #8 (June-July 1973); in Millennium Edition: More Fun Comics 73 (DC, 2001 series) #nn; in Golden Age Doctor Fate Archives (DC, 2007 series) #1

8 page Green Arrow story "Case of the Namesake Murders"

Characters Green Arrow (intro-has brown hair)[Oliver Queen], Speedy (intro) [Roy Harper], Arrowplane (Arrowcar-intro).
Synopsis Someone is killing off members of the History Club.
Genre superhero
Script Mort Weisinger
Pencils George Papp [as Geo. Papp](signed)
Inks George Papp [as Geo. Papp](signed)
Reprinted in Millennium Edition: More Fun Comics 73 (DC, 2001 series) #nn

8 page Radio Squad story "Murder Takes the Spotlight"

Characters Radio Squad: Larry Trent & Sandy Keene; Lorna Drake; Sparky Sanders; Emmy Sanders; Jasper Rawdon.
Genre detective
Pencils Chad Grothkopf
Inks Chad Grothkopf
Letters Chad Grothkopf
Reprinted in Millennium Edition: More Fun Comics 73 (DC, 2001 series) #nn

8 page Johnny Quick story "The Black Knight"

Characters Johnny Quick [Johnny Chambers]; Vs. Black Knight, Tubby Watts.
Synopsis Johnny must battle against an armored foe that seeks out and destroys rare statue art.
Genre superhero
Script Mort Weisinger
Pencils Ed Moore
Inks Chad Grothkopf
Reprinted in Millennium Edition: More Fun Comics 73 (DC, 2001 series) #nn

2 page text story "Who Did It?"

Characters Ed Gale; Stephen Drake
Genre adventure
Script Wilton Weston (signed)
Pencils Stan Kaye (signed as Stanley Kaye)
Inks Stan Kaye (signed as Stanley Kaye)
Letters typeset
Notes The second page's illustration is a flopped blow up from the one on the first page to create a close up of the character depicted. The signature is left off.
Reprinted in Millennium Edition: More Fun Comics 73 (DC, 2001 series) #nn

6 page Clip Carson story "Secret Mission in Honduras"

Characters Clip Carson
Genre adventure
Pencils George Papp [as Geo. Papp](signed)
Inks George Papp [as Geo. Papp](signed)
Reprinted in Millennium Edition: More Fun Comics 73 (DC, 2001 series) #nn

10 page Spectre story "The Vanishing Menaces"

Characters The Spectre [Jim Corrigan]; Intro-Rhodes; the Chief, Clarice Winston; Matt Tyler; Morton Kirk; Percival Popp (one panel cameo-next issue promo).
Genre superhero; occult
Script Jerry Siegel
Pencils Bernard Baily
Inks Bernard Baily
Letters Bernard Baily
Notes Takes place in Cliffland. Percival Popp appearance noted by Ted Watson.
Reprinted in Millennium Edition: More Fun Comics 73 (DC, 2001 series) #nn

8 page Aquaman story "The Submarine Strikes"

Characters Aquaman (intro, origin).
Synopsis An unnamed scientist and explorer uses the science of ancient Atlantis to give his son the power to breathe underwater.
Genre superhero
Script Mort Weisinger
Pencils Paul Norris
Inks Paul Norris
Notes Neither Aquaman or his father are given names in this story.
Reprinted in Secret Origins (DC, 1973 series) #7 (October-November 1974); in Millennium Edition: More Fun Comics 73 (DC, 2001 series) #nn