More Fun Comics Vol 1 36

"Masked Ranger: "Gold Mine Map, Part 1 (of 3)"": The synopsis for this issue has not yet been written.

More Fun Comics #36 is an issue of the series More Fun Comics (Volume 1) with a cover date of October, 1938.

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

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

Featured Characters:

• The Masked Ranger (First appearance)

Supporting Characters:

• Pedro (First appearance)

Animals:

• Star (First appearance)

Antagonists:

• Night Raiders (First appearance)
  • 1 boss
  • 4 hoods

Other Characters:

• Hermit Bill Clayton (Dies)
• Sam Whitcomb, Bill's partner back East (Mentioned only)
• 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
  

Synopsis for Three Musketeers: "Episode 25 (of 25)"

Appearing in Three Musketeers: "Episode 25 (of 25)"

Featured Characters:

• Three Musketeers
  • D'Artagnan
  • Aramis
  • Athos
  • Porthos

Supporting Characters:

• Planchet

Locations:

• Paris, France, the 1620s
  

Synopsis for Wing Brady: "Paid in Full, Part 3 (of 8)"

Appearing in Wing Brady: "Paid in Full, Part 3 (of 8)"

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
      

Synopsis for Johnnie Law: "Tiger's Claw Gang, Part 3 (of 4)"

The ammunition smugglers and the cops shoot it out on the open water with submachineguns; wounds and fatalities are inflicted on both sides.

Appearing in Johnnie Law: "Tiger's Claw Gang, Part 3 (of 4)"

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)
  

Synopsis for Magic Crystal of History: "Queen Isabella and the Voyages of Columbus"

Appearing in Magic Crystal of History: "Queen Isabella and the Voyages of Columbus"

Featured Characters:

• Bobby
• Binks

Items:

• Magic Crystal of History

Other Characters:

• Isabella I of Castile
• Christopher Columbus
  

Synopsis for Red Logan: "Boronia, Part 2 (of 5)"

Appearing in Red Logan: "Boronia, Part 2 (of 5)"

Featured Characters:

• Red Logan
  

Synopsis for Gary Hawkes: "Claire Darroll"

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.

Appearing in Gary Hawkes: "Claire Darroll"

Featured Characters:

• Gary Hawkes (First appearance)

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 (Mentioned only)

Vehicles:

• Hawkes' Training Plane (stolen, recovered)
• Hawkes' Speed Plane "Sky-Bolt" (Destroyed)
  

Synopsis for Detective Sergeant Carey: "Baggage Car Mystery"

Appearing in Detective Sergeant Carey: "Baggage Car Mystery"

Featured Characters:

• Detective Sergeant Carey

Supporting Characters:

• Sleepy
  

Synopsis for Buccaneer: "Episode 5 of 20"

Appearing in Buccaneer: "Episode 5 of 20"

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
  

Synopsis for Radio Squad: "Adopting Crax"

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.

Appearing in Radio Squad: "Adopting Crax"

Featured Characters:

• Radio Squad
  • Sandy Keene
  • Larry Trent

Supporting Characters:

• Crax, Sandy's new dog

Antagonists:

• pyromaniac fireman

Locations:

• New York City
  

Synopsis for Lt. Bob Neal: "Submarine 662"

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.

Appearing in Lt. Bob Neal: "Submarine 662"

Featured Characters:

• Lt. Bob Neal (First appearance)

Supporting Characters:

• Ens. Tubby Potts (First appearance)
• Capt. Mitchell (First appearance)

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 #5 and Detective Comics #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

See Also

• Cover gallery for the More Fun Comics series
• Images from More Fun Comics Vol 1 36

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