Two new characters Henri Duval and Dr Occult debuted in this issue, but neither was as important as the creative team who put them together; Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster. New Fun only published original material and Malcolm Wheeler Nicholson needed a fresh supply of talent. While Henri Duval wasn't exactly Superman, the team's work was finally being published. The Siegel and Shuster by-line framed "Henri Duval, Famed soldier of fortune." but on Dr Occult, the ghost detective, the two adopted the psedonyms of Leger and Reuths. The swashbuckling musketeer Duval didn't cut a memorable figure and lasted only 4 installments. Dr Occult however, whose powers were only limited by his imagination, proved to have a little more life. In his first outing, Dr Occult rescued a victim from a vampire by using a potent talisman.
Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson - Editor & Publisher
William H. Cook - Managing Editor
C. Naar - Assistant Editor
Tom McNamara - Cartoon Editor
H. D. Cushing - Advertising Mana
Rexford L. May - Circulation Mana
Stories:
- Charley Fish [4] (by Vin Sullivan)
- Sandra of the Secret Service [The Gavonian Affair, Part 6] (by Brigham)
- [Weird Asia] [4] (by Brig [aka W. C. Brigham])
- Brad Hardy [Part 4] (by Brig [aka W. C. Brigham])
- Don Drake on the Planet Saro [Part 6]
- In the Wake of the Wander [Part 4] (by MacFergus [aka Tom Cooper])
- Barry O'Neill [The Fang-Gow Case, Part 6] (by Leo E. O'Mealia)
- Capn. Spinacker [Part 4] (by Tom, Tom Cooper) [continued in New Comics #1]
- Bob Merritt [The Mystery Plane, Part 2] (by Leo E. O'Mealia)
- Along the Main Line [Part 2] (by Tom Cooper)
- Just Bugs [2] by Tom Cooper]
- Famous in South America [4] Manuel Belgrano (by Brigham)
- Jack Woods [7] [Pancho Villa, Part 3] (by C Brigham)
- Remote Control! (text story by Ken Fitch)
- Movies (text article)
- Radio (text article)
- Oswald the Rabbit (by Al Stahl)
- Stamps and Coins (text article illustrated by Loe [aka Dick Loederer])
- Fun Mail (letters page)
- Buckskin Jim [The Indian Ambush, Part 6] (by Tom Cooper)
- Sports (text article by Joe Archibald)
- Shavetail [Part 2] (text story by Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson)
- Slim Pickins [The Haunted House, Part 2] (by [Stan] Randall)
- The First Hundred Years (by Ran [aka Stan Randall])
- Mr. Plotz (by EK [aka E.F. Koscik])
- The Professor [Part 2] (by E.F. Koscik)
- Thermopylae
- Magic Crystal of History [Part 6] (by Ray Wardel)
- Loafer the Wolf [by Henry Muheim]
- Frank of the Frontier (by Muheim)
- My Grandpa "When He Was Young" [Part 4] (by yours truly Lefty Peters per Tom McNamara) [continued in Funny Pages #1]
- After School [Part 6] (by Tom McNamara)
- [Spike Spalding] (by Vin Sullivan)
- Wing Brady [The Bedouins, Part 6] (by Henry Kiefer)
- Henri Duval of France Famed Soldier of Fortune [Part 1] (by Jerome Siegel and Joe Shuster)
- New Fun Magic (text article by the Wizard of Biff)
- The Top Cross-Word Puzzle
- Books Books (text article)
- Learn to Be a Cartoonist - Lesson No. II Construction The Face (by Charles Shows)
- [Fun Fax] [3] (by Joe Archibald)
- Fanny [4] (by Vin Sullivan)
- Charley Fish [5] (by Vin [Sullivan])
- Doctor Occult, the Ghost Detective [Part 1] (by Leger and Reuths [aka Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster])
- Ramblin' Jim [Part 2] (by [Stan] Randall)
- Try an' Get It (by Ran [aka Stan Randall])
- Treasure Hunt Contest (illustration by Brigham)
- Solve These Puzzles (by Matt Curzon)
- Junior Funsters [2] The Organ Grinder (text story by Connie Naar)
- Oscar [1] (by Pat [aka John Patterson])
- Skipper Hicks [Part 1] (by John Patterson)
- Al Whitney's Famous Flights [Part 3]
- Ivanhoe [Part 6] (by Sir Walter Scott)
- In Days of Yore [5] (by Rich)
- [Spike Spalding] (by Vin Sullivan)
- Treasure Island [Part 2] (by Robert Louis Stevenson)
- Pincus [4] (by Vin Sullivan)
- Spike Spalding [Prince of Patrania, Part 4] (by Vincent Sullivan)
- Sonny [5] [by Whitney Ellsworth]
- Little Linda [Part 5] (by Whitney Ellsworth)
- Jack Andrews [Part 6] (by Tom Cooper)
- Midshipman Dewey [Part 5] (by Ral)
- Doubtful Dave (by Al Stahl)
- Pelion and Ossa [Part 6] (by Al Stahl)
- 2023 Super Police [Captain Kiddlaw, Part 6] (by Clem Gretter & Ken Fitch)
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