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40February 1939
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More Fun Comics #40

DC · February 1939 · on sale 1939-01-03

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Series
More Fun Comics (DC, 1936 series)
Issue
#40
Publication date
February 1939
Key date
1939-02-00
On-sale date
1939-01-03
Indicia publisher
Detective Comics Inc.
Price
$0.10
Pages
68

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Contents

SeqStoryTypePagesCreditsCharacters
0-cover1pencils: Creig Flessel; inks: Creig FlesselKids (on sled, going off hill)
1-comic story0.75script: Fred Schwab; pencils: Fred Schwab; inks: Fred SchwabCoyote Canyon Bill
2-credits, title page0.25letters: typeset
3-comic story6script: Jim Chambers; pencils: Jim Chambers; inks: Jim ChambersThe Masked Ranger; Dave Walters; Steve Delaney
4-cartoon1script: Gustavson; pencils: Gustavson; inks: Gustavson; letters: Paul Gustavson
5-comic story4pencils: Will Ely; inks: Will ElyJohnnie Law
6-comic story6script: Jerry Siegel; pencils: Joe Shuster; inks: Joe ShusterSandy Kean, Larry Trent
7Fun on Wheels [Part 3]text story1.65script: Paul Dean
11-comic story4pencils: Rob Jenney; inks: Rob Jenney
12Guy Fawkes and the Gun-Powder Plotcomic story2pencils: Homer Fleming; inks: Homer FlemingGuy Fawkes; King James; Robert Catesby; Thomas Winter
13-comic story6pencils: Win; inks: WinRed Logan; Ivan
14-comic story2script: Bob Kane; pencils: Bob Kane; inks: Bob KaneGinger
15Ventriloquism and the World's Smallest Pianocartoon1script: Sheldon Moldoff; pencils: Sheldon Moldoff; inks: Sheldon Moldoff
16Scientists Again Honored; Vatican City Stamps; Russian Scenicstext article0.6letters: typeset
18Murder in the Moviescomic story4script: Joe Donohoe; pencils: Joe Donohoe; inks: Joe DonohoeDetective Sergeant Carey; Sleepy
19-comic story2script: Schwab; pencils: Schwab; inks: Schwab
20-comic story6script: Wade Hampton; pencils: Wade Hampton; inks: Wade HamptonO'Malley
21In the Clutches of the Purple Dragoncomic story6script: B. Hirsch; pencils: R. Lehman; inks: R. Lehman
22Paid in Full, Part 7comic story6pencils: Tom Hickey; inks: Tom Hickey
23-comic story5script: Bernard Baily; pencils: Bernard Baily; inks: Bernard BailyDennis Stone
24-cartoon1script: Gustavson; pencils: Gustavson; inks: Gustavson; letters: Paul Gustavson

Plus 1.75 pages of advertisements and other matter across 5 sequences, as published.

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