More Fun Comics #12 (24) for Sale - First Appearance of Pep Morgan - Where to Buy

Identification plate

Series: More Fun Comics (DC, 1936 series)
Issue: #12 (24)
Publication date: September 1937
Key date: 1937-09-00
On-sale date: 1937
Indicia publisher: Nicholson Publishing Co. Inc.
Price: $0.10
Pages: 68

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Why this issue matters

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

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

First appearance of Captain John Henry Toth - the earliest non-flashback appearance on record for this character.

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

First appearance of d'Artagnan - 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	pencils: Vin Sullivan; inks: Vin Sullivan
1	-	foreword, introduction, preface, afterword	1	letters: typeset
2	The Brain, Part 5	comic story	3	script: Will Ely; pencils: Will Ely; inks: Will Ely	Sandra; Michael; The Brain (villain)
3	-	comic story	4	script: Ed Cronin; pencils: Ed Cronin; inks: Ed Cronin	Marty McCann; Bessie Tuttle [aka Hortense Martinique] (introduction); Gaffer (introduction); Jeff Lewis (villain, introduction); Greengrass; Billy; Carstairs (movie director)
4	The Cross Country Race	comic story	2	pencils: Fless; inks: Fless	Pep Morgan First
5	The Smugglers, Part 6	comic story	4	pencils: Tom Hickey; inks: Tom Hickey	Wing Brady; Abdul-Crim (villain, introduction ?); Morros (henchman)
6	-	comic story	2	script: Jerome Siegel; pencils: Joe Shuster; inks: Joe Shuster	Police Commissioner Bailey, Sandy Kean, Captain John Henry Toth First, Larry Trent
7	The Kidnapping of Spike, Part 5	comic story	2	script: Vin Sullivan; pencils: Vin Sullivan; inks: Vin Sullivan	Spike Spalding; Count Alex (villain); King Philip; Ruppo; The Princess
8	-	in-house column	2	script: ? (as Jolly Bill) (credited); letters: typeset
9	Episode 23	comic story	2	script: Sir Walter Scott; pencils: Raymond Perry; inks: Raymond Perry	Wilfred of Ivanhoe; King Richard the Lionheart; Cedric of Ivanhoe; Athelstane
10	-	comic story	2	script: Whitney Ellsworth; pencils: Whitney Ellsworth; inks: Whitney Ellsworth	Billy the Kid
11	Fang Gow of China, Part 24	comic story	2	script: Major Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson; pencils: Leo E. O'Mealia; inks: Leo E. O'Mealia	Barry O'Neill; Fang Gow (villain); Doctor Bonfils; Jean Le Grand
12	-	comic story	2	pencils: H. C. Kiefer; inks: A. D. Kiefer	Jim Bowie First, Davy Crockett First
13	-	comic story	2	pencils: Tom Hickey; inks: Tom Hickey	Brad Hardy; Queen Claudia (villain); Lord Zion (villain, death)
14	-	comic story	2	pencils: Fless; inks: Fless	Hanko; Chief Sitting-Down-Strike (introduction)
15	-	cartoon	2	script: Whit Ellsworth; pencils: Whit Ellsworth; inks: Whit Ellsworth
16	Episode 14	comic story	2	script: Alexandre Dumas; pencils: Sven Elvén; inks: Sven Elvén	d'Artagnan First
17	Island Adventure, Part 14	comic story	2	script: Alger; pencils: Alger; inks: Alger	Woozy Watts
18	Part 12	comic story	2	pencils: Sven Elvén; inks: Sven Elvén	Captain Dennis; Jeff Roberts; Gregory Roberts
19	Alaskan Adventure, Part 10	comic story	2	script: Major Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson; pencils: Leo E. O'Mealia; inks: Leo E. O'Mealia	Bob Merritt; Dicky; Monk Moreton (villain)
20	At the County Fair [Part 2]	comic story	2	pencils: Creig Flessel; inks: Creig Flessel	The Bradley Boys; Harry Matson; Nita Noble (introduction)
21	People of the Red Planet, Part 10	comic story	2	pencils: Tom Hickey; inks: Tom Hickey	Mark Marson; Gail Hillary; Monty
22	-	text article	1	script: Mary Partrick
23	Robert Young	cartoon	1	script: Laidlaw; pencils: Laidlaw; inks: Laidlaw
24	-	comic story	4	script: Leger; pencils: Reuths; inks: Reuths	Dr. Occult
25	The Dick Healy Case, Part 1	comic story	4	script: Will Ely; pencils: Will Ely; inks: Will Ely	Jack Woods; Dick Healy (introduction); Pappa Benson (introduction, villain); Slug Malone (introduction, villain)
26	Linda and the Lumberjacks, Part 1	comic story	2	script: Whitney Ellsworth; pencils: Whitney Ellsworth; inks: Whitney Ellsworth	Linda; Silas Flint; Ned Flint
27	The Founding of Normandy	comic story	2	pencils: H. Fleming; inks: H. Fleming	Bobby; Binks; Rolf the Ganger; Count Eudes; King Charles the Fat
28	The Arsonist, Part 4	comic story	4	script: Will Ely; pencils: Will Ely; inks: Will Ely	Johnnie Law; Smitty (introduction); The Arsonist (villain, introduction); Firechief Lewis
29	-	comic story	1	script: Alger; pencils: Alger; inks: Alger
30	-	cartoon	1

Plus 1 page of advertisements and other matter across 1 sequence, as published.

Where to read it

Collection	Year
DC Comics Before Superman: Major Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson's Pulp Comics #[nn] ISBN 9781613451649	2018	On eBay ›

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Before you buy

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Series context

‹ #11 (23)16 of 119#1 (25) ›

Sources

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

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