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More Fun Comics #89

DC · Series began 1936 · March 1943

Dates

Cover date
March 1943
On sale
January 12, 1943
Pages
68

Editions and covers

Creators

pencils: Cliff Young, Henry Boltinoff, Howard Sherman, Louis Cazeneuve, Mort Meskin, Bernard Bailyinks: Cliff Young, Steve Brodie, Henry Boltinoff, Howard Sherman, Louis Cazeneuve, Charles Paris, Bernard Bailyscript: James Ross Smith, Josette Frank, Henry Boltinoff, Warner Wilson, Jack Liebowitz, Sidney Eliasletters: Henry Boltinoff

Stories

  • The Birth of the Battling Bowmen · 13 pages

    Archaeologist Oliver Queen is marooned on Lost Mesa where he meets Roy Harper, a young boy raised by Indians. There they are beset upon by thugs searching for a gold mine, and only Oliver and Roy's skills with archery and knowledge of Indian lore save them.

  • Lenny · 1 pages
  • The Case of the Crystal Crimes · 10 pages

    Against the advice of Kent, Inza visits a crooked fortune teller and nearly is run down in the road, as he had predicted. However, when Dr. Fate begins an investigation into this fraud's activities, he nearly loses his own life in the process.

  • The Streamlined Buccaneers! · 10 pages

    Aquaman faces Black Jack and his gang of pirates who have adopted modern methods to raid ships.

  • The Battle · 2 pages
  • Prescription for Plunder · 11 pages
  • Attempted Assassination · Stamps · 1 pages
  • The Underworld Goes Overweight · 10 pages

    Grabby Gus accidentally steals a machine that can make people super-heavy, then uses it to institute a crime-wave.

Reprinted in

Secret Origins of the Super DC Heroes (1976), Secret Origins of the Super DC Heroes (1976), Golden Age Doctor Fate Archives (2007), Aquaman: A Celebration of 75 Years (2016), Green Arrow: A Celebration of 75 Years (2016), Green Arrow: The Golden Age Omnibus (2017)

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