More Fun Comics #65 is an issue of the series More Fun Comics (Volume 1) with a cover date of March, 1941.
Synopsis for The Spectre: "Dr. Mephisto"
A magician named Dr. Mephisto is performing to a packed hall when suddenly the lights go out and a cowled figure covered in ethereal fire, the Blue Flame, appears. Once the lights go back on, rich patrons realize they've been robbed. Soon a bank messenger reports being robbed by the mysterious Blue Flame as well. Detective Corrigan uses his otherworldly powers to look into the past and identify the car the Blue Flame used, learning it belongs to a crook named Jimmy Groggins.
Groggins attacks Corrigan when the cop shows up to interrogate him, but is unimpressed when the Spectre turns the hood's knife into a charm on a necklace, and even when the ghost grabs him and flies them both to Mars. Then a Martian dinosaur appears and swallows them both, making Groggins finally break down and tell them where the hideout of the Blue Flame's gang is. After ordering Groggins to give himself up to the police, Spectre goes to this hideout and learns where Blue Flame will rob next. He masquerades as the hoods' boss to send them to rob the policeman's ball instead, then goes to a wealthy social gathering where Dr. Mephisto will be performing.
Corrigan is convinced of Mephisto's innocence. However a stolen bracelet ends up on his wrist after the Blue Flame attacks. The Spectre easily captures Blue Flame when he meets with one of his flunkies to collect some loot, and unmasks him as Dr. Mephisto.
Appearing in The Spectre: "Dr. Mephisto"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
- Police Chief
Antagonists:
- Blue Flame (First appearance historically)
- Jimmy Groggins (Single appearance)
Other Characters:
- Mrs. Pemberton (Single appearance)
Locations:
Synopsis for Detective Sergeant Carey: "Undersea Espionage"
Appearing in Detective Sergeant Carey: "Undersea Espionage"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
- Sleepy
Antagonists:
- Spy (who escaped in the plane factory sabotage case) (captured)
- his boat crew
- submarine crew (captured)
Locations:
- Fishing Boat Marina
Vessels:
- two hired motorboats
- enemy submarine (captured)
- several U.S. Coast Guard cutters
Synopsis for Congo Bill: "The Shami Diamond"
Appearing in Congo Bill: "The Shami Diamond"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
- Professor Joe Kent
Antagonists:
- Randu, international diamond thief (Dies)
- Joe, Winston Darrow impersonator (Dies)
- fake cab driver (Dies)
- cowboy thug
Other Characters:
- Winston Darrow
- diamond broker
- Aladi Shami, Indian Prince (Flashback only)
- Tori Sabu, unscrupulous Rajah (Flashback only)
- two truck drivers
Locations:
- South Africa
- large coastal city
- hotel
- passenger piers
- busy streets
- Randu's hideout
- large coastal city
Items:
- The Shami Gem
Synopsis for Captain Desmo: "The Information Leak"
Appearing in Captain Desmo: "The Information Leak"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
- Gabby
Synopsis for Radio Squad: "The Melting Pot"
Appearing in Radio Squad: "The Melting Pot"
Featured Characters:
Synopsis for Lance Larkin: "Cult of the Assassins"
Appearing in Lance Larkin: "Cult of the Assassins"
Featured Characters:
Antagonists:
- Cult of Assassins (Many die)
- Hassan (Dies)
Other Characters:
- British Seventh Infantry Division (Massacred)
- British Garrison at Nisapur
- General Holm
- Major Jim Brown
- Brown's troops
Animals:
- Omar, Larkin's horse
Locations:
Synopsis for Biff Bronson: "Piracy on the Atlantic"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
- Dan Druff
Appearing in Biff Bronson: "Piracy on the Atlantic"
- Appearances not yet listed
Synopsis for Sergeant O'Malley of the Red Coat Patrol: "Blackjack Barns' Revenge"
Appearing in Sergeant O'Malley of the Red Coat Patrol: "Blackjack Barns' Revenge"
Featured Characters:
- Constable O'Malley, RCMP
Supporting Characters:
- Red Coat Patrol
- Black Hawk
- Flame, O'Malley's Wolf-Dog
Synopsis for Doctor Fate: "The Fish-Men of Nyarl-Amen"
The Fish-Men of Nyarl-Amen, a dynasty of 50,000 years ago, armed with electric-dart-shooting tridents, attack a U.S. Naval Base in Hawaii as the start of an invasion. Dr. Fate fends off the attack by shooting fire out of his hands, which incapacitates or kills the fish soldiers, then heads for their undersea city to deal with the leader, Nyarl-Amen himself, who is protected within a ring of fire which Fate cannot penetrate.
Fate rescues a captured Army officer then returns to battle the fish-man, who has now stupidly stepped out of his protective ring, and who shoots Fate with a Grecian fire gun, ineffectually, then tries to fight him with a sword, then gets punched out, and falls upon his own sword. Then Dr. Fate destroys the city to protect the surface world.
Appearing in Doctor Fate: "The Fish-Men of Nyarl-Amen"
Featured Characters:
Antagonists:
- Nyarl-Amen (Single appearance; dies)
- Fish-Men of Nyarl-Amen (Destroyed)
Other Characters:
- U.S. Army officer
Locations:
- U.S. Naval Base in Hawaii
- Tower of Fate
Items:
Notes
- Published by Detective Comics, Inc..
- Dr. Fate: "The Fish-Men of Nyarl-Amen" is reprinted in Wanted #3 and The Golden Age Doctor Fate Archives Vol. 1.
- Lance Larkin gets head-konked unconscious with a rifle stock.
- The Spectre: "Dr. Mephisto" is reprinted in Detective Comics #443 and The Golden Age Spectre Archives Vol. 1.
- Also appearing in this issue of More Fun Comics was:
- "Retriever" (text story), by Frank Cooper.
Trivia
- Congo Bill still smokes a pipe.
See Also
Links and References
- ↑ More Fun Comics #61
- ↑ More Fun Comics #62
- ↑ More Fun Comics #57
- ↑ More Fun Comics #58
- ↑ All Star Comics #3
- ↑ All Star Comics #4
- ↑ More Fun Comics #59
- ↑ More Fun Comics #61
- ↑ More Fun Comics #65
- ↑ More Fun Comics #64