More Fun Comics, originally titled New Fun: The Big Comic Magazine a. k. a. New Fun Comics, was a 1935-1947 American comic book anthology that introduced several major superhero characters and was the first comic-book series to feature solely original material rather than reprints of newspaper comic strips. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the A comic book (often shortened to simply comic and sometimes called a comic paper or comic magazine) is a Magazine or Book of narrative ANThology is the first Major label album by Alien Ant Farm released on March 6, 2001 in the USA and March 19 A superhero (sometimes rendered super-hero or super hero) is a Fictional character "of unprecedented physical prowess dedicated to acts of derring-do A newspaper is a written Publication containing News, information and Advertising, usually printed on low-cost paper called Newsprint. A comic strip is a sequence of drawings that tells a story Currently in the Western world, most comic strips are written and drawn by a Comics artist It was also the first publication of the company that would become DC Comics. DC Comics is an American comic book and related media company

Publication history

More Fun Comics #52 (Feb. 1940), debut of the Spectre. The Spectre is a fictional cosmic entity and Superhero who has appeared in numerous Comic books published by DC Comics. Cover art by Bernard Baily. Bernard Baily ( April 5, 1916 — January 19, 1996) was an American Comic book artist best known as co-creator of the

In the fall of 1934, having seen the emergence of Famous Funnies and other oversize magazines reprinting comic strips, Major Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson founded National Allied Publications and published New Fun #1 (Feb. Famous Funnies is an American publication of the 1930s that represents what Popular culture historians consider the first true American comic book Major Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson (1890-1968 was an American Pulp magazine Writer and Entrepreneur who pioneered the American comic 1935). A tabloid-sized, 10-inch by 15-inch, 36-page magazine with a card-stock, non-glossy cover, it was an anthology of humor features, such as the funny animal comic "Pelion and Ossa" and the college-set "Jigger and Ginger", mixed with such dramatic fare as the Western strip "Jack Woods" and the "yellow peril" adventure "Barry O'Neill", featuring a Fu Manchu-styled villain, Fang Gow. Humour or humor (see spelling differences) is the tendency of particular cognitive experiences to provoke Laughter and provide Amusement Funny animal is a Cartooning term for the Genre of Comics and Animated cartoons in which the main characters are Humanoid or Western fiction is a genre of literature set in the American Old West between the years of 1860 and 1900 Yellow Peril (sometimes Yellow Terror) was a color metaphor for race that originated in the late nineteenth century with Immigration of Chinese Dr Fu Manchu is a Fictional character first featured in a series of novels by English author Sax Rohmer during the first half of the 20th century

Most significantly, however, whereas some of the existing publications had eventually included a small amount of original material, generally as filler, New Fun #1 was the first comic book containing all-original material.

The first four issues were edited by future Funnies, Inc. founder Lloyd Jacquet, the next by Wheeler-Nicholson himself. Funnies Inc is an influential American Comic book packager of the 1930s-1940s Golden Age of comic books. Lloyd V Jacquet (died 1974 was the founder of Funnies Inc, one of the first and most prominent of a handful of Comic book "packagers" established in Issue #6 (Oct. 1935) brought the comic-book debuts of Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, the future creators of Superman, who began their careers with the musketeer swashbuckler "Henri Duval" (doing the first two installments before turning it over to others) and, under the pseudonyms "Leger and Reuths", the supernatural adventurer Doctor Occult. Jerome "Jerry" Siegel (October 17 1914 – January 28 1996 who also used pseudonyms including Joe Carter, Jerry Ess, Siegel was a fan of movies Joseph "Joe" Shuster (July 10 1914 - July 30 1992 was a Canadian -born American Comic book Artist best known for co-creating the DC Comics Superman is a fictional Comic book Superhero widely considered to be one of the most recognized of such characters and an American Cultural icon Doctor Occult is a Fictional character, a magic user in the DC Comics universe. They would remain on the latter title through issue #32 (June 1938), following the magazine's retitling as More Fun (issues #7-8, Jan. -Feb. 1936), and More Fun Comics (#9-on).

With issue #108 (March 1946), all the superhero features were moved from More Fun into Adventure Comics. Adventure Comics is a Comic book series published by DC Comics from 1935 to 1983 More Fun became a humor title that spotlighted the children's fantasy feature "Jimminy and the Magic Book". Humour or humor (see spelling differences) is the tendency of particular cognitive experiences to provoke Laughter and provide Amusement ^[1] The book was canceled with issue #127 (Nov. 1947).

Features include

• Doctor Occult — New Fun #6 – More Fun #33
• The Spectre — More Fun 52–101
• Doctor Fate — More Fun 55–98
• Johnny Quick — More Fun 71–107
• Green Arrow — More Fun 73–107
• Aquaman — More Fun 73–107
• Superboy— More Fun 101–107

See also

• List of DC Comics publications

Footnotes

References

• Grand Comics Database
• Ron Goulart's Great History of Comic Books by Ron Goulart ISBN 0-8092-5045-4