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Issue Details

Issue #101
Published January-February 1945
Cover Price 0.10
Pages 52
Editing Whitney Ellsworth (credited), Jack Schiff (actual)
Notes Art miscredited to Cliff Young in the Millennium Edition reprint. Cover blurb indicates Dover and Clover are featured inside, but Superboy is there instead.

Cover Details

Genre superhero
Pencils Maurice Del Bourgo
Inks Maurice Del Bourgo
Notes Art miscredited to Cliff Young in the Millennium Edition reprint. Cover blurb indicates Dover and Clover are featured inside, but Superboy is there instead.
Reprinted in Millennium Edition: More Fun Comics No. 101 (DC, 2000 series) #nn

11 page Green Arrow story "Formula for Doom"

Characters Onions Malloy; H.L.M. Quigg; Cyrus Gage; Arrowcar
Synopsis Crooks disguised as policeman attempt to steal secret formula.
Genre superhero
Script Joe Samachson?
Pencils Maurice del Bourgo
Inks Maurice del Bourgo
Notes writer id by Bob Hughes
Reprinted in Millennium Edition: More Fun Comics No. 101 (DC, 2000 series) #nn

8 page Aquaman story "Orphans of the Sea!"

Genre superhero
Script Joe Samachson
Pencils Louis Cazeneuve
Inks Louis Cazeneuve
Reprinted in Millennium Edition: More Fun Comics No. 101 (DC, 2000 series) #nn

5 page Superboy story "The Origin of Superboy"

Characters Jor-El; Lara; Krypton; Ma Kent (not named); Pa Kent (not named)
Genre superhero
Script Jerry Siegel
Pencils Joe Shuster
Inks Joe Shuster
Notes writer id by Martin O'Hearn. Origin of Superboy. Story does not take place in Smallville. Clark Kent does not wear glasses. Superboy only appears in the last panel. No Siegel and Shuster by-line.
Reprinted in Millennium Edition: More Fun Comics No. 101 (DC, 2000 series) #nn

1 page text story "A Personal Reason"

Script Joseph Greene
Letters Typeset
Notes text feature
Reprinted in Millennium Edition: More Fun Comics No. 101 (DC, 2000 series) #nn

11 page Johnny Quick story "An Investment in Happiness!"

Characters Tubby Watts
Genre superhero
Script Don Cameron
Pencils Mort Meskin (as Mort Jr.)
Inks Mort Meskin (as Mort Jr.)
Reprinted in Millennium Edition: More Fun Comics No. 101 (DC, 2000 series) #nn

8 page Spectre story "The Unsafe Safe!"

Characters Percival Popp
Genre superhero; occult
Pencils Bernard Baily
Inks Bernard Baily
Notes last appearance
Reprinted in Millennium Edition: More Fun Comics No. 101 (DC, 2000 series) #nn