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"Sandra of the Secret Service: "The Brain, Part 2 (of 6)"": Pirate submarine captain Snegg's big plan is to foment war between America and other nations, which will stimulate the internat

Quote1 What are we going to do with the bear? Quote2
— Jack Bradley

More Fun Comics #21 is an issue of the series More Fun Comics (Volume 1) with a cover date of June, 1937.

Synopsis for Sandra of the Secret Service: "The Brain, Part 2 (of 6)"

Pirate submarine captain Snegg's big plan is to foment war between America and other nations, which will stimulate the international arms market, thus enriching his employers. He tells this to his prisoners Sandra and Michael, then returns to take charge of the periscope. Orders are received from The Brain, to return to the sub's secret base, in an uncharted group of islands, without sinking any more ships. Despite this, Snegg seeks out another U.S. ship, and lets Sandra observe it thru the periscope, then tells her that this ship is doomed, and that she herself will fire the torpedo that sinks it.

Appearing in Sandra of the Secret Service: "The Brain, Part 2 (of 6)"

Featured Characters:

Supporting Characters:

  • Michael

Antagonists:

  • The Brain (First appearance)
    • Captain Snegg
      • his crew

Locations

  • Atlantic Ocean
    • uncharted island group
      • The Brain's secret submarine base
      • The Brain's secret weapons factory

Vehicles:

  • Snegg's submarine
  • other submarines


Synopsis for Spike Spalding: "Prince of Patrania, Part 19 (of 25)"

The boy king, Philip of Patrania, has been kidnapped! Princess Margo finds the sliding panel and the secret passageway. Word gets around very quickly, and everybody in Patrania is upset and worried. Count Alex sends Ruppo out to spread the rumor that Prince Philip has fled the country, in expectation of an invasion from Provokia, a (blameless) neighboring nation. The slanderous story spreads rapidly and is widely believed; public indignation is rampant.

Meanwhile, Spike, Pincus, and their friend the sailor, on foot, have finally reached the outskirts of the capital city. Night is falling, and the very noisy crowd is making them nervous. The sailor strolls into town and finds out what's what: The people are demanding answers! They will march on the capital! While they mill about, the sailor gets back and tells the younger boys what's up. They need to get to the royal palace, but Spike looks just like the missing king, so to slip thru the crowd, they make up Spike in blackface, and it works. Along with many townspeople, they approach the palace.

Appearing in Spike Spalding: "Prince of Patrania, Part 19 (of 25)"

Featured Characters:

Supporting Characters:

  • Pincus
  • Sailor

Antagonists:

  • Count Alex
  • Ruppo

Other Characters:

Locations:

Synopsis for "Hap the Sap"

Hap has a new job as a door-to-door vacuum salesman, but is unable to close any sales. Finally, a woman lets him into her house, but when Hap plugs the vacuum to show it off, a fuse blows. He replaces the fuse, getting all dirty in the process, and finally gives his sales pitch. But there's been a misunderstanding, the woman already bought a vacuum cleaner, and she thought that Hap was just the delivery man.

Appearing in "Hap the Sap"

Featured Characters:

  • Hap the Sap

Other Characters:

  • Housewife
  • Mr. Breezy, Hap's boss

Synopsis for Magic Crystal of History: "The Battle of Hastings"

Bobby and Binks observe the war between Harold the King and William the Conqueror.

Appearing in Magic Crystal of History: "The Battle of Hastings"

Featured Characters:

Items:

Other Characters

Synopsis for Wing Brady: "The Tunis Smuggling Operation, Part 3 (of 7)"

Aboard the smuggling ship in Tunis Harbor, Wing Brady has set fire to the compartment in which he was imprisoned, and manages to get free of his ropes, then out of the burning cabin. The fire is out of control, and the 3-thug crew won't be able to put it out. Brady gets out onto the main deck and encounters the captain, who fails to hit him with a thrown knife, then Wing dives overboard. The smuggler captain dives after him and they grapple underwater, until the captain is dead. Wing has a tough time swimming back to the Tunis shore, but makes it. However he is very late for his dinner date with Lynn Harding and her father, and they are starting to worry.

Appearing in Wing Brady: "The Tunis Smuggling Operation, Part 3 (of 7)"

Featured Characters:

Supporting Characters:

  • Lynn Harding
  • Mr. Harding

Antagonists:

  • smuggling ship captain (Dies)
    • two crew-thugs

Locations:

Vehicles:

  • smugglers' cargo ship (Destroyed)

Synopsis for Ivanhoe: "Episode 20 (of 26)"

The Preceptor places Rebecca on trial for witchcraft. An honest witnesses tells a story of her having cured him from illness, which counts against her, and the hired witnesses tell their ridiculous stories, which also count against her. She appeals to Brian de Bois-Guilbert, and he reminds her of the note in her hand, at which she now looks. "Demand a champion," it says. So she throws a glove at the Grand Master, she demands trial by combat, and appeals for a champion.

Appearing in Ivanhoe: "Episode 20 (of 26)"

Featured Characters:

Supporting Characters:

  • Rebecca

Antagonists:

  • Preceptor Malvoison
  • Brian de Bois-Guilbert
  • Lucas de Beaumanoir, Grand-Master of the Templars
  • Conrade Mont-Pitchet
  • two hired perjurers

Other Characters:

  • crippled witness

Locations:

Synopsis for Barry O'Neill: "Fang Gow of China, Part 21 (of 35)"

At the sound of Jean's shot, Fang Gow's leaderless minions had scattered into the warren of tunnels under St. Michel Cemetery. Barry O'Neill and Inspector Le Grand are on the far side of a set of iron bars. Jean herself is dragged down a passageway, but drop-kicks her pistol to Barry, who catches it but doesn't shoot, with Jean being held like a human shield. But Barry believes he knows where they are going, and another way to get there, and sprints away, with Le Grand keeping up as best he can. Barry runs them out by the way he came in; the guard he took out and tied up earlier is still there. Le Grand searches the guard, finds a gun, and takes it along. Barry gets too far ahead of Le Grand, gets ambushed and trussed up and left behind, as the hatchetmen reach the adjoining field and escape by airplane, taking Jean with them!

Appearing in Barry O'Neill: "Fang Gow of China, Part 21 (of 35)"

Featured Characters:

Supporting Characters:

Antagonists:

Locations:

Synopsis for Mark Marson, of the Inter-Planetary Police: "People of the Red Planet, Part 7 (of 11)"

As poison gas floods into the throneroom, three gasmasked bodyguards run in and grab Sarno and his aides, and drag them out, leaving Mark Marson and Sgt. Montague to die. Mark finds a window and breaks it open then he and Monty leave via a stout vine growing up the side of the hide-out building. They re-enter thru another window and search for Gail. Meanwhile in Lordi's surgery, Gail wakes up on the operating table, and starts yelling for help!

Appearing in Mark Marson, of the Inter-Planetary Police: "People of the Red Planet, Part 7 (of 11)"

Featured Characters:

Supporting Characters:

  • Inter-Planetary Police
    • Sergeant Montague
  • Gail Hillary

Antagonists:

  • Monarch Sarno
    • Lordi, Chief of the Laboratories
    • many minions

Era:

  • 2060

Locations:

  • Planet Ciro
    • City of Ciralia
      • Red People Hideout, a tower, near I-P.P.HQ
      • North River

Synopsis for Bradley Boys: "In the Wilderness, Part 9 (of 10)"

Tom and Jack and Harry encounter a grizzly bear, and Harry fights it with a knife, and the Bradleys get the bear's neck tangled up in some rope between two trees.

Appearing in Bradley Boys: "In the Wilderness, Part 9 (of 10)"

Featured Characters:

Supporting Characters:

  • Harry Matson

Locations:

  • Old Jug Mountain

Synopsis for Three Musketeers: "Episode 10 (of 25)"

Cardinal Richelielu's complex machinations have included the abduction, by his own Guards, of Madame Bonacieux, the Queen's milliner. The milliner's husband has enlisted D'Artagnan, to rescue Madame Bonacieux, but then M. Bonacieux was also arrested, and his house was placed under surveillance, with D'Artagnan inside, eavesdropping on the surveillers. One night Madame Bonacieux unexpectedly returns, and the Guards seize her. D'Artagnan sends Planchet to fetch Athos, Porthos, and Aramis, then leaves via the window. He draws his blade and raps at the front door, it opens, and he leaps inside sword first. After ten minutes of furious fighting, the cut and bruised Cardinal's Guards flee the building.

Appearing in Three Musketeers: "Episode 10 (of 25)"

Featured Characters:

Supporting Characters:

  • Planchet

Other Characters

Antagonists:

Locations:

Synopsis for Bob Merritt: "The Mystery Plane, Part 17 (of 25)"

Inside the bottom of an extinct volcano in the Alaskan Rockies, Bob Merritt has gotten captured by the unspeaking Asiatic miners working in a secret gold mine there. Bob is led into the execution chamber where a giant swordsman is preparing to lop off Dicky Saunders's head.

Meanwhile back at Bob's company's camp, his pals are scanning the skies with telescopes, because he's late in returning. Four of them take off to go look for him. Meanwhile at the base of the cliff, below the Merritt company's camp, Monk Morton and his hoodlums are stymied; they can't do anything about these interlopers until he learns the location of the gold mine.

Appearing in Bob Merritt: "The Mystery Plane, Part 17 (of 25)"

Featured Characters:

Supporting Characters:

  • Bob's Flying Pals
    • Dicky Saunders
    • Buzz
    • Shorty
    • Tex
  • Prospector Jake

Antagonists:

  • Asiatic Priests and Miners
  • Monk Morton, Gang Boss
    • at least 4 thugs: Slug, others--

Locations

Vehicles:

  • four scouting biplanes

Synopsis for "Hanko the Cowhand"

Hanko is whittling instead of working, and his boss warns him that he'll fire him. So Hanko, not wanting to give up his hobby, begins carving everything around the ranch while he works. Hanko's co-workers, fed up with him, tell on him to the boss, who gives Hanko a job peeling potatoes. But when it's time to eat, everyone is impressed by the way Hanko has carved up all the food.

Appearing in "Hanko the Cowhand"

Featured Characters:

Synopsis for Brad Hardy: "In the Forbidden City, Part 9 (of 9)"

Brad Hardy and Prince Kardos are pursued thru the Grey Forest by a giant monster, right up to the edge of a deep lake. They have to jump in and hope the behemoth won't follow. They luck out, on that score, but in the water they are unable to regain the surface, as a powerful current sucks them downward, to the bottom, into a cave, thru a narrow coral opening, and into open water. To their amazement, Kardos and Hardy are able to breathe, talk, see, and walk, under water. They are outside an undersea city, with towering coral walls. A dangerous swordfish swims into view.

Appearing in Brad Hardy: "In the Forbidden City, Part 9 (of 9)"

Featured Characters:

Supporting Characters:

Monsters:

  • giant carnivorous land monster
  • giant swordfish

Locations:

Synopsis for Little Linda: "Wicked Stepmother, Part 2 (of 4)"

Silas Flint's butler conveys the Wicked Stepmother to a guest room, where she gloats about how wealthy Flint is. Silas meanwhile paces the floor all night and sleeps not a wink, worried that Little Linda will be taken away to a distant city. In the servants' quarters, the butler, the cook, the maid, and the chauffeur express the same concern.

In the morning, Silas introduces Linda to the self-proclaimed guardian, but Linda emphatically doesn't recognize or like her. Regrettable remarks are made, litigation is threatened, and the Stepmother is shown the door. Except really Linda DID recognize the Stepmother, and fibbed about it, but Uncle Silas says it's okay, and that they're now going away on a long trip.

Appearing in Little Linda: "Wicked Stepmother, Part 2 (of 4)"

Featured Characters:

Supporting Characters:

  • Silas Flint

Antagonists:

  • Linda's wicked stepmother

Other Characters:

  • Silas' domestic workers
    • Butler
    • Cook
    • Maid
    • Chauffeur

Locations:

  • Hillsboro

Synopsis for Jack Woods: "The Secret Mine, Part 4 (of 6)"

Widow Harkins, her two ranch hands, and Rancher Hines are barricaded inside the mine entrance, on the Harkins Ranch, while Val Stanton, his five gun-throwers, plus Jack Woods posing as a desperado, are riding to attack them, and take over the ranch by force! Numbers favor the attackers but position favors the defenders. Hines aims and fires his Winchester; one gunman falls dead. Attackers dismount and approach on their bellies. Stanton begins to (correctly) suspect Woods of a double-cross, but right now they've got their hands full with this shoot-out. Another attacker falls. Jack has an idea: there must be another entrance to the mine, why not get in it behind them? Stanton agrees, but sends his best gunman, Fagin, along to keep an eye on Woods.

Jack does find a hidden entrance, they both crawl inside, and forward some distance, before the little entrance behind them is collapsed in a landslide! Jack and Fagin are trapped in the dark.

Appearing in Jack Woods: "The Secret Mine, Part 4 (of 6)"

Featured Characters:

Antagonists:

  • Val Stanton, rancher & saloon proprietor
    • Fagin, 4 other gun-throwers (two die)

Other Characters:

  • Widow Harkins
    • two ranch hands
  • Rancher Hines

Locations:

Synopsis for Pep Morgan, and the Riverdale Boys: "Tennis"

Pep tries out for the Tennis Team, but he's terrible at Tennis, so he switches to Lacrosse.

Appearing in Pep Morgan, and the Riverdale Boys: "Tennis"

Featured Characters:

Supporting Characters:

  • Coach Barr

Other Characters:

  • Chuck Kelly
  • Tubs Miller
  • Lank O'Doul

Locations:

Synopsis for Dr. Occult, the Ghost Detective: "The Life Ray, Part 4 (of 6)"

That evening, Dr. Occult visits Chardon Cemetery, where his late friend Nita Crane is interred. Two tough cops accompany him, and they reluctantly help him pry the lid off Miss Crane's coffin. It's empty!

Shortly later, Rose Psychic receives a telephone call from Doctor Occult. He starts to divulge a terrible secret, when suddenly he blacks out and slumps onto his desk top. Custer the butler asks Miss Psychic to hang up so that he can call a doctor. Rose gets a taxi and speeds across town, but when she arrives at Occult's house, the doctor has arrived and is telling the butler that Dr. Occult is dead!

Appearing in Dr. Occult, the Ghost Detective: "The Life Ray, Part 4 (of 6)"

Featured Characters:

Supporting Characters:

Antagonists:

Other Characters:

  • two Cops
  • Chardon Cemetery Caretaker
  • Custer, Occult's Butler
  • a Doctor

Locations:

  • Chardon Cemetery

Synopsis for Radio Squad: "Dan Bowers, Part 5 (of 6)"

Sandy Kean calls his buddy the news photographer, to meet him at Police HQ, and bring his camera! Sandy plans, right now, to smash some of this city's rottenest rackets, and needs evidence. Their first stop is Dan Bowers' Carlyon Club, where Kean once again smashes all the gambling equipment, while Hal takes many photos. Kean calls in a Paddy Wagon and has Bower and his crew hauled away, then moves on to take down "Bugs" Brighty, extortionist. For the next few hours, Sandy and Hal work their way thru town, taking out big shots and small fries,

This goes on for many hectic days, until the trial date for Dan Bowers' new trial, on new charges, with new evidence. Will it be enough to offset the pervasive corruption in the NYPD? The trial begins.

Appearing in Radio Squad: "Dan Bowers, Part 5 (of 6)"

Featured Characters:

Supporting Characters:

  • Hal, photographer

Antagonists:

  • Dan Bowers
    • his gambling gang
  • Amos Twist, Bowers' lawyer
  • Bugs Brighty

Locations:

Synopsis for Woozy Watts: "Island Adventure, Part 11"

Woozy Watts follows the instruction on the note that Duke brought to him, and finds a woman named Smith. She tells Woozy that she's being held for ransom, but that they've treated her well, except for locking her dog up to starve. Woozy vows to help Smith.

Appearing in Woozy Watts: "Island Adventure, Part 11"

Featured Characters:

Supporting Characters:

  • Duke
  • Smith (First appearance)

Synopsis for Johnnie Law: "The Firebug, Part 1 (of 4)"

Johnnie Law is walking his beat when a fire breaks out in a tenement nearby. Fire trucks arrive, but the building can't be saved. This is the third such fire in two weeks. Officer Law rescues a ragged urchin from the smoky, tottering tenement, using a clothesline to move between buildings. Observing all this from another crummy old building is the firebug, gloating over his handiwork.

That evening Officer Law visits the rescued kid, at the hospital, learns that he's a homeless orphan, and decides to adopt him. Johnnie gets a message to report to his precinct immediately, and when he does, the Chief meets him and orders him to take off his uniform.

Appearing in Johnnie Law: "The Firebug, Part 1 (of 4)"

Featured Characters:

Supporting Characters:

  • Mrs. Ashley, Law's landlady
  • Tim, orphan
  • Police Chief

Antagonists:

  • Firebug

Other Characters:

  • Firemen

Locations:

  • New York City
    • Lower East Side, tenement district
    • Hospital
    • Police HQ

Synopsis for Trissie: "The Knife"

Trissie is running around town with a huge knife, scaring everyone she comes across. But she has no bad intentions, she's merely taking the knife to a sharpener.

Appearing in Trissie: "The Knife"

Featured Characters:

  • Trissie (Single appearance)

Notes

  • Published by Nicholson Publishing Co., Inc.. Indicia calls this issue "Vol. 2, No. 9".
  • The menacing swordfish appearing at the end of Brad Hardy by Tom Hickey will be replaced at the start of next issue's story, without explanation, by a giant salamander-like monster.
  • Doctor Occult has a butler, named Custer. In More Fun Comics #11 he had a butler named Jenkins.
  • Last issue for Hap the Sap by Pete De Angelo.
  • This issue Will Ely replaces W.C. Brigham on Sandra of the Secret Service and Jack Woods.
  • First issue for Johnnie Law by Will Ely, three pages. With two exceptions (Wing Brady and Spike Spalding), all other strips in this book are two pages long, or less.
  • This issue, Pirate Gold is absent, but returns next issue.
  • The news photographer, Hal, in this month's Radio Squad episode was introduced, but not named, in More Fun Comics #16.
  • After this issue, Sam the Porter by Alger is gone for three issues, but returns in More Fun Comics #25.
  • This issue, Spike Spalding by Vincent Sullivan expands from two pages to four. Next issue it will be back down to two pages.
  • Also featured in this issue of More Fun Comics were:

Trivia

  • Will Ely signs his Sandra of the Secret Service and Jack Woods and Johnnie Law stories as "Will Georgi".
  • Russell Cole signs his Just For Fun and Alger's Variety Show and Sam The Porter and Woozy Watts strips as "Alger".
  • Gill Fox signs his Straight From Hollywood strip as "Laidlaw".
  • Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster sign their Doctor Occult, the Ghost Detective feature as "Leger & Reuths", but sign their Radio Squad feature as "Siegel & Shuster".


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