Because there are no such things! Vampires, ghouls, these are hypnotically induced suggestions. People are made to believe in them, but actually they don't exist! 
More Fun Comics #66 is an issue of the series More Fun Comics (Volume 1) with a cover date of April, 1941.
Synopsis for The Spectre: "The World Within the Paintings"
Seemingly out of nowhere, Cliffland is menaced by giant grotesque monsters. The Spectre tries to stop them while invisible, but is surprised to find that they can see him, and that they can momentarily weaken him by shooting green rays from their eyes. Then a massive drum starts tolling, elsewhere in the city, and the horrendous creatures disappear inside a museum. The Spectre pursues them, but they get away.
Later the Spectre interrupts two hoods holding up the Winston home, in search of the Ja-Set Ruby. The Spectre manifests separately from Jim, and deals harshly with the home-invaders, but breaks off the fight by freezing time in the room, and leaving to attend to a bigger emergency. Somewhere downtown, the Spectre rescues a mass of cops from a squad of otherworldly monsters, by materializing a protective invisible screen between the two sides. The monsters again shine their green rays on him, but now the Spectre just shrugs it off, then manually flings one monster into the depths of interstellar space, and punches another one into a million pieces, then pursues a third monster back to the museum.
Inside the museum's main gallery, one painting, centuries old, shows some clouds, which have shifted slightly since the Spectre's earlier visit. The Spectre gets an unusual idea, and dives directly into the picture. Once inside the painting, The Spectre finds a number of the monsters, assembling under the balcony of a metallic palace, and harangued by an insane and evil hunchbacked man. His beef is that he has never existed, so he plans to take over the material world! The Spectre confronts him, and black doom encircles the Grim Guardian in its stifling folds. "How can you hope to oppose black magic beyond all understanding, because it never existed?!" But the Spectre is surrounded by a protective glow of pure light. The monsters rush up and attack him, but they melt into a torrent of oily fluid, as he stands firm. The unnamed hunchback flees toward the portal to reality, dropping some glowing globes to confuse the pursuing Spectre, but the Spectre shrinks himself, and dives thru the balls.
This fight is visible in the painting in the museum, by a completely freaked-out guard. The hunchback turns out to be one of the monsters, just before the Spectre leaps out of the painting, turns on his heel, and incinerates it with a gesture, destroying this dangerous gateway into the real world.
Finally, Spec returns to save Clarice from the hoods, sends a flying bullet back into its gun, then huffs and puffs and blows the thugs directly to the police station.
Appearing in The Spectre: "The World Within the Paintings"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
- Clarice Winston
- Mr. Winston, Clarice's dad
- Police Chief of Cliffland
Antagonists:
- Monsters from the picture
Other Characters:
- museum guard
Locations:
Items:
- a painting that acts as a portal between realities (Destroyed)
- Ja-Set Ruby
Synopsis for Detective Sergeant Carey: "The Captive Ship"
Appearing in Detective Sergeant Carey: "The Captive Ship"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
- Sleepy
- Captain, Carey's boss
- Officer Tim
Antagonists:
- German Captain (arrested)
- ununionized Monsoon crew (some killed, most captured)
- six known espionage agents
- unknown agents
- ununionized Monsoon crew (some killed, most captured)
Other Characters:
- unionized seamen
- Coast Guard navigator
- Coast Guard pilot
- Lt Jones, USCG
Locations:
- Police HQ
- Seamen's Union Hall
- Coast Guard Station
- open ocean
- England (destination)
Vehicles:
- S.S. Monsoon
- U.S.C.G. amphibious biplane (Destroyed)
- U.S.C.G. gunboat
Synopsis for Congo Bill: "The Moon Orchid"
Appearing in Congo Bill: "The Moon Orchid"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
- Professor Joe Kent
Antagonists
- Mesabi Tribe (many die)
- Nagi
Other Characters:
- peg-legged geologist
Locations:
Items:
- Moon Orchid, blooms only at night
Synopsis for Captain Desmo: "The Voodoo King of the Kangean Islands"
Appearing in Captain Desmo: "The Voodoo King of the Kangean Islands"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
- Gabby
Antagonists:
- Captain Mains
- Commissioner Frahd, as the "Voodoo King"
Other Characters
- Nick Black
Locations:
- Dutch East Indies
- Kangean Islands
Vehicles:
- Vought OS2U Kingfisher
- schooner
Synopsis for Radio Squad: "Murder of the Gun Collector"
Appearing in Radio Squad: "Murder of the Gun Collector"
Featured Characters:
Antagonists:
- Pinky Ellis (gambling ring's muscle man)
- other gunman
- Mickey, Blue Moon manager
- pool hall punk
- Ames, gardener (secretly Tuffy Behrens, ex-con)
Other Characters
- John Brent (Appears only as a corpse)
- housemaid
- Ben Brent, nephew
Locations:
- New York City
- Brentwood, fashionable neighborhood
- Brent Acres, mansion
- tough neighborhood
- Blue Moon Pool Hall
- Brentwood, fashionable neighborhood
Items:
- Doc Growley's Arquebus
Synopsis for Lance Larkin: "The Gold Miner's Daughter"
Lance Larkin wanders, in his nomadic way, from the deserts of Arabia to the jungles of South Asia. At a sidewalk cafe in Rangoon, he reads about a reward for the recapture of an escaped spy named Zordoff. Before he can start on that manhunt however, he encounters a young western woman, pursued by two knife-wielding Thuggees. Larkin packs a sidearm and means business; the Thuggees stop chasing her and fade into the crowd.
Larkin accompanies Eve back to her father's gold mine, in Sumatra. It has been taken over by a white man and his gang of "dead-alive" zombies. Larkin uses salt to cure the natives, arrests Zordoff, and gives the thousand pound reward to the Normans.
Two months later, already restless, Lance Larkin moves on to his next adventure.
Appearing in Lance Larkin: "The Gold Miner's Daughter"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
- Eve Norman
- Mr. Norman, gold miner
Antagonists:
- two Thuggee knife-men
- Zordoff, fugitive spy
- two cockney thugs (both die)
- mining overseer
- zombie miners
Locations:
- Burma
- Indian Ocean
- Dutch East Indies (See Notes.)
Synopsis for Biff Bronson: "The Restaurant Bombers"
Appearing in Biff Bronson: "The Restaurant Bombers"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
- Dan Druff
Antagonists:
- Protective Association
- "Big Noise" Perry
- Police Captain Gardner
Other Characters:
- Wilson, Restaurateur
- the Mayor
Locations:
- Wilson Restaurants, three of them
Synopsis for Sergeant O'Malley of the Red Coat Patrol: "Mystery of the Disappearing Logs"
Appearing in Sergeant O'Malley of the Red Coat Patrol: "Mystery of the Disappearing Logs"
Featured Characters:
- Constable O'Malley, of the Red Coat Patrol
Supporting Characters:
- Black Hawk, RCMP
Antagonists:
- Pierre
- hench-logger
Other Characters:
- Frenchy Laroque
Locations:
- Canada
- North Woods
- Laroque's Lumber Camp
- Laroque's Lumber Camp
- North Woods
Synopsis for Dr. Fate: "The Leopard Girl"
Inza is one of many guests at the mansion of Sarkiss, where she meets Helen, whose skin is slowly becoming spotted, similar to that of a leopard. Intrigued by this, Inza summons Doctor Fate, who arrives at the place and prevents the leopard girl from attacking Inza.
Fate starts investigating and finds that Sarkiss has been drugging Helen in order to turn her skin into that of a leopard. Exposing the hoax, Doctor Fate reveals the truth to Inza, who is still skeptical about the whole situation. In order to prove to her that there are no such things as supernatural beings, Doctor Fate removes his helmet and reveals himself as a man to Inza, who is shocked at this development.
Appearing in Dr. Fate: "The Leopard Girl"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
Antagonists:
- Sarkiss (Single appearance)
Other Characters:
- Helen, the Leopard Girl (Single appearance)
- Ray Knight (Single appearance)
Locations:
Items:
Notes
- Published monthly by Detective Comics, Inc..
- Biff Bronson by Albert and Joseph Sulman is credited accordingly.
- Congo Bill gets head-konked unconscious, with a stone-headed club.
- Dr. Fate:
- In this story, Doctor Fate for the first time takes off his helmet, and is presented as a human being. This changes things, as before this, Doctor Fate had told Inza that "he was not human... and had no youth, having been created by the elder gods and placed on Earth to fight evil sorcery".[1]
- Doctor Fate's statement about vampires and ghouls, quoted above, is not plausible in the context of many other stories.
- Both of these seeming discrepancies are revealed, by Roy Thomas,[2] to have not occured on Earth-Two. In this explanation: Doctor Fate tampered with the dreams of Gardner Fox of Earth-Prime, so as to ensure his origins stayed secret longer. In the real Earth-Two, Inza Cramer had discovered his identity at the very beginning of his career, and he never claimed supernatural creatures to be nonexistent.
- "The Leopard Girl" is reprinted in The Golden Age Doctor Fate Archives Vol. 1 and Detective Comics #439.
- For most of this story, Lance Larkin looks and dresses exactly like Congo Bill.
- He claims to have more money than he knows what to do with. At this story's end, he is also the owner of a half share in a gold mine in Sumatra.
- In early 1941, Japan had not yet invaded Indonesia.
- Radio Squad: Sandy Keene gets head-konked, with a pistol butt. He falls down but doesn't black out.
- The Spectre: "The World Within The Paintings" is reprinted in Golden Age Spectre Archives 1, and DC 100-Page Super Spectacular #20.
- Also appearing in this issue of More Fun Comics were:
- "Big Six Comic Magazines" (full-page black-&-white ad for the current issues of Action Comics, Adventure Comics, Detective Comics, All-American Comics, More Fun Comics, & Flash Comics)
- Facts
- "For Thrills and Adventure" (1/2-page color ad for the current issue of All-Star Comics #4)
- Facts
- "Star Man" (1/2-page color ad for the current issue of Adventure Comics #61)
- Quiz by Henry Boltinoff
- "Little Men" by Louisa May Alcott (book review)
- "In Fighting Form" (text story), by Peter E. Black, illustration by Fred Ray
- "Superman is on the Radio" (1/2-page ad for "The Adventures of Superman" radio show)
- "Colossal! Terrific! Stupendous!" (full-page ad for the current issue of World's Best Comics #1, 96 pages for fifteen cents.)
Trivia
- According to one caption in the Lance Larkin story, Rangoon is in India.
See Also
Links and References
- ↑ All-Star Comics Vol 1 3
- ↑ Letter Column of All-Star Squadron #52