More Fun Comics #36

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Masked Ranger: "Gold Mine Map, Part 1 (of 3)"

| Appearing1 = **Featured Characters:** * The Masked Ranger) **Supporting Characters:** * Pedro **Animals:** * Star **Antagonists:** * Night Raiders ** 1 boss ** 4 hoods **Other Characters:** * Hermit Bill Clayton * Sam Whitcomb, Bill's partner back East * Sally, Sam's niece * Marge, Sam's niece (not yet named) * Buck, stagecoach driver * stagecoach shotgun rider * White Rose **Locations:** * American Old West ** Whitcomb Ranch ("That place is a hoodoo!") **Items:** * two halves of a map to a gold mine **Vehicles:** * Stage Coach

| StoryTitle2 = Three Musketeers: "Episode 25 (of 25)" | Synopsis2 = | Writer2_1 = Alexandre Dumas | Writer2_2 = Sven Elven | Penciler2_1 = Sven Elven | Inker2_1 = Sven Elven | Appearing2 = **Featured Characters:** * Three Musketeers ** D'Artagnan) ** Aramis) ** Athos) ** Porthos) **Supporting Characters:** * Planchet **Locations:** * Paris, France, the 1620s

| Writer3_1 = Tom Hickey | Penciler3_1 = Tom Hickey | Inker3_1 = Tom Hickey | StoryTitle3 = Wing Brady: "Paid in Full, Part 3 (of 8)" | Synopsis3 = | Appearing3 = **Featured Characters:** * Wing Brady) **Supporting Characters:** * French Foreign Legion, 12th Battalion ** Rene Le Maire ** Captain Chevigny **Antagonists:** * Sergeant van Blarcom * Adjutant Pytlak * Jose Fernandez ** his hired assassin **Locations:** * North Africa ** Casa Bey, Foreign Legion outpost ** Prison Camp at El Brunda ** Beltaz, Arab town *** Fernandez' dive bar

| Writer4_1 = Will Ely | Penciler4_1 = Will Ely | Inker4_1 = Will Ely | StoryTitle4 = Johnnie Law: "Tiger's Claw Gang, Part 3 (of 4)" | Synopsis4 = The ammunition smugglers and the cops shoot it out on the open water with submachineguns; wounds and fatalities are inflicted on both sides. | Appearing4 = **Featured Characters:** * Johnnie Law) **Supporting Characters:** * New York City Police Department ** "the Chief" ** River Patrol **Antagonists:** * Tiger's Claw Gang, ammunition smugglers **Locations:** * New York City ** Pier 14 ** New York Bay **Vessels:** * "Josephine", tramp steamer Escapes * NYPD speedboats One destroyed * Josephine's power launch Damaged, abandoned

| StoryTitle5 = Magic Crystal of History: "Queen Isabella and the Voyages of Columbus" | Synopsis5 = | Appearing5 = **Featured Characters:** * Bobby) * Binks) **Items:** * Magic Crystal of History **Other Characters:** * Isabella I of Castile * Christopher Columbus) | Writer5_1 = Homer Fleming | Penciler5_1 = Homer Fleming | Inker5_1 = Homer Fleming

| Writer6_1 = Ed Winiarski | Penciler6_1 = Ed Winiarski | Inker6_1 = Ed Winiarski | StoryTitle6 = Red Logan: "Boronia, Part 2 (of 5)" | Synopsis6 = | Appearing6 = **Featured Characters:** * Red Logan)

| Writer7_1 = Bob Jenney | Penciler7_1 = Bob Jenney | Inker7_1 = Bob Jenney | StoryTitle7 = Gary Hawkes: "Claire Darroll" | Synopsis7 = Flight instructor Gary Hawkes' student pilot Claire Darroll gets kidnapped and Gary goes after her. Hawkes gets shot down by a hoodlum with a submachinegun, crashes in a swamp, and gets rescued from it by the villains, who now have a second hostage. Three days go by.

Hawkes gets the jump on one of the gunmen, disarms him, and shoots the other one in the arm. Then Hawkes' mechanic Joe shows up with some police and FBI to take charge of the kidnappers. Gary and Claire resume her flight training. | Appearing7 = **Featured Characters:** * Gary Hawkes) **Supporting Characters:** * Claire Darroll, student pilot * C.B. Darroll, millionaire * Joe, mechanic **Antagonists:** * Joe, kidnapper * Tony, kidnapper **Other Characters** * Frank Lee, FBI man **Locations:** * Great Swamp hide-out * Sandy Island hide-out **Vehicles:** * Hawkes' Training Plane stolen, recovered * Hawkes' Speed Plane "Sky-Bolt"

| Writer10_1 = Joe Donohoe | Penciler10_1 = Joe Donohoe | Inker10_1 = Joe Donohoe | StoryTitle10 = Detective Sergeant Carey: "Baggage Car Mystery" | Synopsis10 = | Appearing10 = **Featured Characters:** * Detective Sergeant Carey) **Supporting Characters:** * Sleepy

| Writer11_1 = Bernard Baily | Penciler11_1 = Bernard Baily | Inker11_1 = Bernard Baily | StoryTitle11 = Buccaneer: "Episode 5 of 20" | Synopsis11 = | Appearing11 = **Featured Characters:** * Dennis Stone) ** his crew of Buccaneers **Antagonists:** * Capt. Klaugh ** crew of slave traders **Locations:** * Atlantic Ocean, 18th Century **Vessels:** * square-rigged sailing ship

| Writer12_1 = Jerry Siegel | Penciler12_1 = Joe Shuster | Inker12_1 = Joe Shuster | StoryTitle12 = Radio Squad: "Adopting Crax" | Synopsis12 = Sandy runs in to a burning building to rescue a dog and in the process discovers a murdered night watchman. He salvages the corpse for evidence, and rescues the dog. After a visit to the city dog pound, Sandy adopts the dog, and Larry names him "Crax."

At the scene of another fire, Crax attacks one of the firemen who kicks the dog aside, then runs into the burning house. Sandy follows him in, and busts him. The fireman turns out to be a pyromaniac and the night watchman's murderer. | Appearing12 = **Featured Characters:** * Radio Squad) ** Sandy Keene) ** Larry Trent) **Supporting Characters:** * Crax, Sandy's new dog **Antagonists:** * pyromaniac fireman **Locations:** * New York City

| Writer13_1 = Robert Hirsch | Penciler13_1 = Russ Lehman | Inker13_1 = Russ Lehman | StoryTitle13 = Lt. Bob Neal: "Submarine 662" | Synopsis13 = In a secret drydock in a secluded cove on the East Coast, Submarine 662 is being outfitted with secret new devices and instruments. Two foreign spies attempt to plant a bomb aboard the new ship, but are thwarted by an observant and quick-thinking young officer, Lieutenant Bob Neal. One of the spies is arrested. Lt. Neal becomes 2nd-in-command of the new ship, under Captain Mitchell.

Their first mission is to strike back at the Pirates of the Java Sea. | Appearing13 = **Featured Characters:** * Lt. Bob Neal) **Supporting Characters:** * Ens. Tubby Potts * Capt. Mitchell **Antagonists:** * two spies: **"Herr Capitan" Arrested ** other spy Gets away **Other Characters:** * Ens. McKay * enlisted security guards * Patricia Grant * Admiral Grant **Locations:** * East Coast ** secret drydock in a secluded cove **Vehicles:** * U.S. Submarine 662

| Notes = * Published by Detective Comics, Inc.. * First issue for **Gary Hawkes** by Rob Jenney. ** Two "Joe"s here, one's a sidekick and the other's a villain. * First issue for **Lt. Bob Neal** by Robert Hirsch and Russ Lehman. * First issue for **Masked Ranger** by Jim Chambers. * Last issue for **Three Musketeers**, by Sven Elven, an unfinished series. * Also appearing in this issue of *More Fun Comics* were: ** Full-page ad for the current issues of Action Comics Vol 1 5 and Detective Comics Vol 1 20 ** *Coyote Canyon Bill* by Stockton ** "Last of the Killers" (text story), by Tex Horton ** *Butch the Pup*, by Fred Schwab ** "Puzzletrix" by Walter Wellman ** *Peekin' At Pictures* by Sheldon Moldoff ** *Ginger Snap*, by Bob Kane ** *The Sports-Teacher" by Sheldon Moldoff ** "The Fun Stamp Club" (text article) ** Full page ad for More Fun Comics cartoon contest | Trivia = | Recommended = | Links =

Creative credits

Writers: Jim Chambers, Alexandre Dumas, Sven Elven, Tom Hickey, Will Ely, Homer Fleming, Ed Winiarski, Bob Jenney, Joe Donohoe, Bernard Baily, Jerry Siegel, Robert Hirsch

Interior art: Jim Chambers, Sven Elven, Tom Hickey, Will Ely, Homer Fleming, Ed Winiarski, Bob Jenney, Joe Donohoe, Bernard Baily, Joe Shuster, Russ Lehman

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GCD: 340

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