More Fun Comics Vol 1 52

"The Spectre!": Detective Jim Corrigan apprehends members of Gat Bensons gang on the same night of his engagement announcement. His fiancée Clarice Winstons desperately waits for Corrigan to show up at her family estate but he does not make it. Corrigan successfully subdues the criminals but

"The Spectre!"
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More Fun Comics Vol 1 #52
February, 1940
Executive Editor	Whitney Ellsworth
Cover Artists	Bernard Baily
The Spectre!
Writers	Jerry Siegel
Pencilers	Bernard Baily
Inkers	Bernard Baily
Editors	Whitney Ellsworth
Wing Brady: "The Tuareg Siege"
Writers	Tom Hickey
Pencilers	Tom Hickey
Inkers	Tom Hickey
Biff Bronson: "The Marching Mechanical Men, Part 1"
Writers	Albert Sulman
Pencilers	Joseph Sulman
Inkers	Joseph Sulman
Radio Squad: "The Bank Robbery"
Writers	Jerry Siegel
Pencilers	Martin Wheeler
Inkers	Martin Wheeler
Lt. Bob Neal: "Return to the Canal Zone"
Writers	Robert Hirsch
Pencilers	Russ Lehman
Inkers	Russ Lehman
King Carter: "Peril on the Ice Plains"
Writers	Paul Lauretta
Pencilers	Paul Lauretta
Inkers	Paul Lauretta
Detective Sergeant Carey: "The Studio Mystery"
Writers	Joe Donohoe
Pencilers	Joe Donohoe
Inkers	Joe Donohoe
Red Coat Patrol: "The Terror in Beaver Run"
Writers	John Lehti
Pencilers	John Lehti
Inkers	John Lehti
Bulldog Martin: "The Invisible Pills"
Writers	Bart Tumey
Pencilers	Bart Tumey
Inkers	Bart Tumey
Previous Issue	More Fun Comics # 51
Next Issue	More Fun Comics # 53

I should be driving toward Clarice's party -- but this tip is too important to pass up!

— Jim Corrigan

More Fun Comics #52 is an issue of the series More Fun Comics (Volume 1) with a cover date of February, 1940.

Synopsis for "The Spectre!"

Detective Jim Corrigan apprehends members of Gat Bensons gang on the same night of his engagement announcement. His fiancée Clarice Winstons desperately waits for Corrigan to show up at her family estate but he does not make it. Corrigan successfully subdues the criminals but lands in the hospital due to his wounds. Clarice tracks Corrigan down and meets him at the hospital where he is released. The couple then leaves but they are captured and taken hostage but Benson’s men. Corrigan is then stuffed into a Barrel that is filled with cement . He is then dumped into the river. The barrel plumets to the bottom and Corrigans soul rises out of its body. He hears a mysterious voice from above informing him that his mission on earth is unfinished. He is informed that he will be sent back with supernatural powers to battle crime. Corrigan then finds himself sitting at the bottom of the river but he does not drown and moves about very easily. He rises above the water and uses his supernatural powers to rescue his fiancée Clarice. Bullets pass through him and criminals drop dead as soon as they touch him. One of the criminals then shoots Clarice but Corrigan is able to heal her with his newfound powers. The police are summoned and the surviving thugs are apprehended. Corrigan then drives his fiancée home and informs her that their engagement is off with no explanation as to why. As he drops off Clarice, Corrigan comes to the sudden realization that he is not even breathing when he notices that he does not even leave an moisture as he sits next to the car window. Corrigan goes home and fashions a costume to fight crime as he comes up with the name of Spectre as his new identity.

Appearing in "The Spectre!"

Featured Characters:

• The Spectre (Jim Corrigan) (First appearance) (Origin)

Supporting Characters:

• Clarice Winston (First appearance)
• The Voice (First appearance)

Antagonists:

• Gat Benson (First appearance)
• Louie (First appearance)
• Ricky (First appearance)

Other Characters:

• Wayne Grant (First appearance)

Locations:

• Earth-Two
  • Cliffland, New Jersey
    

Appearing in Wing Brady: "The Tuareg Siege"

Featured Characters:

• Wing Brady (Final appearance)

Supporting Characters:

• Foreign Legion

Antagonists:

• Tuareg

Locations:

• French West Africa
  • Fort Miranda
    

Synopsis for Biff Bronson: "The Marching Mechanical Men, Part 1"

A criminal engineer calling himself "the Wizard" builds an army of robots. He uses them to steal all the silver in West Point. Biff Bronson disables one robot, and adapts it into a disguise, in order to infiltrate the Wizard's hideout.

Appearing in Biff Bronson: "The Marching Mechanical Men, Part 1"

Featured Characters:

• Biff Bronson

Supporting Characters:

• Dan Druff

Antagonists:

• The Wizard

Items:

• Wizard's Marching Mechanical Men

Locations:

• West Point
  

Appearing in Radio Squad: "The Bank Robbery"

Featured Characters:

• Radio Squad
  • Sandy Keene
  • Larry Trent
    

Synopsis for Lt. Bob Neal: "Return to the Canal Zone"

An innocent-looking yacht turns out to be laying mines in the Panama Canal. Lt. Neal and the crew of SS 662 deal with it.

Appearing in Lt. Bob Neal: "Return to the Canal Zone"

Featured Characters:

• Lt. Bob Neal

Supporting Characters:

• Tubby Potts
  • 662 Crew

Vehicles:

• Sub 662

Locations:

• Panama
  

Appearing in King Carter: "Peril on the Ice Plains"

Featured Characters:

• King Carter

Supporting Characters:

• Red Rogers

Locations:

• Arctic Circle
  

Appearing in Detective Sergeant Carey: "The Studio Mystery"

Featured Characters:

• Detective Sergeant Carey

Supporting Characters:

• Sleepy

Antagonists:

• Cameraman

Other Characters:

• Actor (Dies)

Locations:

• Hollywood
  

Appearing in Red Coat Patrol: "The Terror in Beaver Run"

Featured Characters:

• Constable O'Malley, RCMP

Supporting Characters:

• Red Coat Patrol
• Black Hawk
• Flame, O'Malley's Wolf-Dog

Antagonists:

• Night Riders Gang
• Bourke, bank president

Locations:

• Canada
  • Beaver Run, lumber town
    

Synopsis for Bulldog Martin: "The Invisible Pills"

Bulldog Martin is bequeathed a bottle of invisibility pills, by the late Professor Livix. He uses these to break up a gang of union racketeers.

Appearing in Bulldog Martin: "The Invisible Pills"

Featured Characters:

• Bulldog Martin

Supporting Characters:

• Jonah

Other Characters:

• Professor Livix (Deceased)

Antagonists:

• Labor Racketeers

Items:

• Prof. Livix's Invisible Pills

Notes

• Published by Detective Comics, Inc..
• "Spectre!" is reprinted in Golden Age Spectre Archives 1 and Secret Origins #5.
• The villain Wizard in Biff Bronson story is not William Asmodeus Zard.
• Last issue for Wing Brady. This series first appeared in New Fun Comics #1, and is the last surviving feature to have premiered there.
• Also appearing in this issue of More Fun Comics were:
  • Henrietta
  • "Bust Up in Borneo" (text story), by Jack Anthony

Trivia

• Biff Bronson uses a time-honored tactic, in disguising himself as a mad scientist's robot; readers of Hugh Hazzard's adventures in Smash Comics have seen this trick before.

See Also

• Cover gallery for the More Fun Comics series

Recommended Reading

• The Spectre Recommended Reading
  • Adventure Comics (Volume 1): Adventure Comics #431– #440
  • Countdown to Mystery
  • Crisis Aftermath: The Spectre (Volume 1)
  • Day of Judgment
  • Day of Vengeance
  • Final Crisis: Revelations
  • More Fun Comics (Volume 1)
  • Spectre (Volume 1)
  • Spectre (Volume 2)
  • Spectre (Volume 3)
  • Spectre (Volume 4)
  • Tales of the Unexpected (Volume 2)
  • Wrath of the Spectre (Volume 1)

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