More Fun Comics #31

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Sandra of the Secret Service: "Sandra's Vacation, Part 4 (of 4)"

Aboard a liner bound from New York to Florida, Baron Von Schmidt has stolen some jewelry and some important papers, double-crossed and killed both of his partners, and escaped. Sandra has also left the scene of the shooting, to the dead men's stateroom, where Michael was still gagged and tied to a chair. She lets herself into the stateroom with a skeleton key, and frees him.

Sandra has some private detective credentials, and uses them to team up with the ship's captain and his officers. They return to the dead villains' stateroom, where they find Von Schmidt hiding under a false bottom in an oversized steamer trunk. He's arrested with no further trouble. | Appearing1 = **Featured Characters:** * Sandra McLane) **Supporting Characters:** * Michael **Other Characters** * Lucille du Pont von Schmidt * passenger liner officers **Antagonists:** * Baron von Schmidt (wears a monocle) **Locations:** * Atlantic Coast **Vehicles:** * passenger liner

| Writer2_1 = Jerry Siegel | Penciler2_1 = Joe Shuster | Inker2_1 = Joe Shuster | StoryTitle2 = Dr. Occult: "Master of Corpses" | Synopsis2 = Dr. Occult joins police to investigate a mine where zombies are doing all the work, and gets captured by the mine's owner, Mr. Daro, a Haitian who is using black magic to raise the dead. Dr. Occult collapses the mine shaft, killing Daro in the cave-in. | Appearing2 = **Featured Characters:** * Doctor Occult) **Supporting Characters:** * Vin Ellsworth **Antagonists:** * Mr. Daro **Other Characters:** * police * zombies **Locations:** * Mr. Daro's mine

| Writer3_1 = Creig Flessel | Penciler3_1 = Creig Flessel | Inker3_1 = Creig Flessel | StoryTitle3 = Buzz Brown: "Captain Scudd, Part 2 (of 2)" | Synopsis3 = Buzz Brown and Sandy MacDonald are forced to work for a rum-runner and alleged pirate named Captain Scudd. Most of his crew hates him, and a mutiny breaks out, with a great deal of shooting. | Appearing3 = **Featured Characters:** * Buzz Brown) **Supporting Characters:** * Sandy MacDonald **Antagonists:** * Captain Scudd, pirate & rum-runner ** his crew **Locations:** * Indian Ocean **Vehicles:** * Scudd's tramp steamer

| Writer4_1 = Tom Hickey | Penciler4_1 = Tom Hickey | Inker4_1 = Tom Hickey | StoryTitle4 = Wing Brady: "Jill Bradford, Part 1 (of 3)" | Synopsis4 = | Appearing4 = **Featured Characters:** * Wing Brady) **Supporting Characters:** * French Foreign Legion, 12th Battalion ** "Hap" Hamilton ** "Frenchy" Reynard **Antagonists:** * Ali Massa, slave trader * Omar Khan **Other Characters:** * Akmeh Bey, camel dealer * Jill Bradford, runaway American girl * Cyrus Judd **Locations:** * North Africa ** El Coro, Arab town

| StoryTitle5 = Magic Crystal of History: "Edward the Third of England and the Black Prince" | Synopsis5 = | Appearing5 = **Featured Characters:** * Bobby) * Binks) **Items:** * Magic Crystal of History **Other Characters:** * Edward III of England * Edward the Black Prince | Writer5_1 = Homer Fleming | Penciler5_1 = Homer Fleming | Inker5_1 = Homer Fleming

| Writer6_1 = Tom Hickey | Penciler6_1 = Tom Hickey | Inker6_1 = Tom Hickey | StoryTitle6 = Mark Marson: "The Murder of Lord Greystone, Part 6 (of 6)" | Synopsis6 = | Appearing6 = **Featured Characters:** * Mark Marson) * Planet Ciro ** Blue Bay

| Writer7_1 = Will Ely | Penciler7_1 = Will Ely | Inker7_1 = Will Ely | StoryTitle7 = Johnnie Law: "The Protective Association, Part 1 (of 3)" | Synopsis7 = | Appearing7 = **Featured Characters:** * Johnnie Law), plainclothes cop **Supporting Characters:** * New York City Police Department|NYPD **Antagonists:** * Brad Dunphy & gang: ** "Knucks" ** "Hunchy" Bambace ** others **Other Characters:** * store proprietor * witness lady **Locations:** * New York City **Vehicles:** * racketeers' black touring car * Law's open coupe

| Writer8_1 = Jerry Siegel | Penciler8_1 = Joe Shuster | Inker8_1 = Joe Shuster | StoryTitle8 = Radio Squad: "Mr. Dale's Storage Company" | Synopsis8 = Sandy and Larry corner and capture an arsonist before he is able to torch his own warehouse. | Appearing8 = **Featured Characters:** * Radio Squad) ** Sandy Keene) ** Larry Trent) **Antagonists:** * Mr. Dale **Locations:** * New York City ** Dale Storage Company **Vehicles:** * Radio Car K-7

| StoryTitle9 = Three Musketeers: "Episode 20 (of 26)" | Synopsis9 = | Writer9_1 = Alexandre Dumas | Writer9_2 = Sven Elven | Penciler9_1 = Sven Elven | Inker9_1 = Sven Elven | Appearing9 = **Featured Characters:** * Three Musketeers ** D'Artagnan) ** Aramis) ** Athos) ** Porthos)

| Writer10_1 = Tom Hickey | Penciler10_1 = Tom Hickey | Inker10_1 = Tom Hickey | StoryTitle10 = Brad Hardy: "Lorraine, Part 3 (of 3)" | Synopsis10 = General Porgo wakes up as Brad is creeping towards his bed. They both lunge for the bedside broadsword, and Porgo gets it first. Kardos warns him, from the window, providing enough of a distraction for Brad to tackle Porgo. | Appearing10 = **Featured Characters:** * Brad Hardy) **Supporting Characters:** * Prince Kardos) **Antagonists:** * General Porgo **Locations:** * Kingdoms of the Underworld ** City of the Grey People

| Writer13_1 = Will Ely | Penciler13_1 = Will Ely | Inker13_1 = Will Ely | StoryTitle13 = Jack Woods: "Last Chance Gulch, Part 2 (of 6)" | Synopsis13 = After surviving an ambush and being treated for his wounds, Jack Woods learns that the Blue Ribbon Oil Company is harassing local ranchers to gain control of Silver Creek's water. Rallying the ranchers at his home, Jack devises a plan to resist the company's hired renegades. | Appearing13 = **Featured Characters:** * Jack Woods) **Supporting Characters:** * Indian Joe **Antagonists:** * Blue Ribbon Oil Company ** 3 or more renegade bushwhackers **Other Characters:** * 3 or more local ranchers **Locations:** * American Old West, 1920s ** Texas *** Last Chance Gulch *** Jack's Ranch *** Silver Creek

| Writer14_1 = | Penciler14_1 = | Inker14_1 = | Editor14_1 = Vincent Sullivan | StoryTitle14 = Biff Brody and Pop Beaner: "Branie's Den" | Synopsis14 = Biff and Pop are chasing some villains down the highway, in their open top car, when they have a near-collision with a milk truck, which then has a full-on collision with a big fast sedan. The sedan's occupants are knocked out and almost killed, when the car catches fire, but Biff drags them both to safety. One rallies himself awake and pulls a gun on Biff; these are the very crooks that they'd been chasing! The gunman gloats for a second or so, long enough for Pop to get behind him and whack him unconscious with a swung milk can.

Leaving the milk truck driver in charge of the two captured hoods, Biff and Pops resume their interrupted raid on Branie's Den, a gangster hide-out that they intend to attack from two sides, with submachine guns. They split up and hike their way into position. Biff charges inside and beats the daylights out of Branie, who was in the middle of beating up a girl. A lookout belatedly starts shooting, from an aqueduct on a trestle, pinning Brody down. Pop Beaner inadvertently causes a complicated accident in which the sniper is swept off the field by a fast-traveling giant log. Brody and Beaner truss up both gunmen and row away with them. | Appearing14 = **Featured Characters:** * Biff Brody * Pop Beaner **Antagonists:** * Tony the Runt * Tony's partner * Branie * Branie's gunman **Other Characters:** * Farmer Kettlesoup **Locations:** * out in the country ** Logging Sluice ** Branie's Den

| Writer15_1 = Ed Winiarski | Penciler15_1 = Ed Winiarski | Inker15_1 = Ed Winiarski | StoryTitle15 = Red Logan: "Museum Murderers, Part 1 (of 3)" | Synopsis15 = When he witnesses the public murder of a museum director, Red Logan pursues, outsmarts, and outfights the two armed assassins, almost, but gets knocked out, stuffed into a sack, and thrown into a river. | Appearing15 = **Featured Characters:** * Red Logan) **Supporting Characters:** * "Chief", Red's boss **Antagonists:** * two gunmen **Other Characters:** * Museum Director **Locations:** * Times-Courier Office * Cosmopolitan Museum * highway bridge over a river

| Notes = * Published by Detective Comics, Inc., for the first time. * First issue for Vincent Sullivan as Editor-in-Chief. * First and last issue for the uncredited **Biff Brody and Pop Beaner**. * Last issue for **Brad Hardy** by Tom Hickey, which breaks off in mid-cliff-hanger. * Last issue for **Buzz Brown**, by Creig Flessel, which breaks off in mid-gunfight. Last caption says "to be continued," but it's not. ** More Fun Comics Vol 1 30|Last issue, Sandy's last name was "MacLean;" this issue it's "MacDonald." Last issue Scudd's freighter was bound for Singapore; this issue it's bound for southern Arabia. * First issue for **Ginger Snap**, by Bob Kane. * Last issue for **Mark Marson** by Tom Hickey. * First issue for **Red Logan** by Ed Winiarski. | Trivia = * **Jack Woods** is printed in black, white, and red, for two pages, then in black and white for the other two. * First two pages of **Johnnie Law** are printed in black, white, and red; other two pages are black & white. ** The Villain's name is spelled "Dunphie" the first time it appears, but "Dunphy" after that. * **Red Logan** gets head-konked with an expensive vase, which breaks, but he is only stunned. Later he is knocked unconscious with a pistol butt. | Recommended = | Links = * Read [https://spyguysandgals.com/sgLookupComicBook.aspx?id=347 Sandra's Vacation, Part 4] online.

Creative credits

Writers: Will Ely, Jerry Siegel, Creig Flessel, Tom Hickey, Homer Fleming, Tom Hickey, Will Ely, Jerry Siegel, Alexandre Dumas, Sven Elven, Tom Hickey, Will Ely, Ed Winiarski

Interior art: Will Ely, Joe Shuster, Creig Flessel, Tom Hickey, Homer Fleming, Tom Hickey, Will Ely, Joe Shuster, Sven Elven, Tom Hickey, Will Ely, Ed Winiarski

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