DC Comics 1935-1949 Appreciation Thread 2020

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Green Arrow & Speedy got their first cover with issue #77 (March 1942).

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Green Arrow & Speedy remained the cover stars for several issues until #86 (December 1942) which featured Johnny Quick, who had debuted in issue #71, more than a year earlier.

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Green Arrow & Speedy, Johnny Quick, the Spectre, Doctor Fate and Aquaman remained the stars of the book (though Aquaman was the only one to never get a cover) until issue #101 (January 1945), which gave us the first appearance of Superboy.

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A humor feature returned to the cover the next issue which featured Dover & Clover.

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The next cover featured a rare humor-adventure pairing when it included Green Arrow & Speedy and Dover & Clover together.

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The issue after that, #104 (July 1945), Superboy got his first cover, which he shared with Dover & Clover.

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Superboy got his only solo More Fun cover the next issue.

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Dover & Clover were the stars by issue #107 (January 1946), which was the last issue to carry Green Arrow & Speedy, Johnny Quick, Superboy and Aquaman (the Spectre and Doctor Fate had already been dropped from the book within the last year).

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With issue #108 (March 1946), and superheroes increasingly out of style, More Fun became an all-humor title, which lasted until its cancellation.

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Its final issue was #127 (December 1947)

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MORE FUN COMICS also introduced Congo Bill in 1940.

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Though introduced in MORE FUN in 1941, Aquaman never appeared on a cover till 1960.

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