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Golden Age DC Titles: New Fun

New Fun Comics #1-6 (Feb.–Oct. 1935)
More Fun Comics #7–127 (Jan. 1936–Nov. 1947)

Compiled by Jason Greenfield

More Fun Comics Adventure Comics Detective Comics Action Comics All-American Comics

Browse through all of DC Comics earliest characters, beginning with the company's first comic book titles. At the time of their initial publication, the company was listed as National Allied Publications in the indicia. Their first title was New Fun Comics #1 (February 1935, which became More Fun Comics with issue #7). This was the first publisher of comic books to fill each issue with entirely new strips.

The lists in this series of pages might exclude some humor characters, licensed newspaper characters, and some historical characters. To learn more, please visit various other sites (links below). Some characters's names provide a link to other information on this site.

» SEE ALSO: Golden Age DC Comics Characters, which focuses on Golden Age characters that are considered to be "costumed adventurers."

Colored = masked or super-hero


Character Appeared in Issues… Notes
New Fun Comics (#1–6)
Buckskin Jim New Fun #1-18 (Feb. 1935–Feb. 1937) Frontiersman / western
Jack Woods New Fun #1–35 (Feb. 1935–Sept. 1938) Also in Adventure Comics. Late western set circa 1915
Ivanhoe New Fun #1–8, 10-27 (Feb. 1935–Dec. 1937) Based on historical literary character by Sir Walter Scott
Jack Andrews, all-american boy New Fun #1–6 (Feb. 1935–Oct. 1935)  
2023 Super-Police New Fun #1–14 (Feb. 1935–Oct. 1936) Future science fiction, strange world
Don Drake on the Planet Saro New Fun #1–6, 8–17 (Feb. 1935–Jan. 1935) Aviator in the style of "Flash Gordon"
Sandra of the Secret Service New Fun #1–35 (Feb. 1935–Sept. 1938)  
Barry O'Neill New Fun #1–29, 35 (Feb. 1935–Sept. 1938) Adventurer. Lasted til 1941 in Adventure.
Wing Brady New Fun #1–9, 11-52 (Feb. 1935–Feb. 1940) French Foreign Legionnaire/pilot
Bobby and Binks / "Magic Crystal of History" New Fun #1–50 (Feb. 1935–Dec. 1939)  
Cap'n Erik New Fun #1–2 (Feb. 1935–Mar. 1935)  
Midshipman Dewey New Fun #2–3, 5–19 (Mar. 1935–Mar. 1937) Young boy sailor circa 1786
Captain Grim New Fun #3–19 (Apr. 1935–Mar. 1937) Ship's captain searching for missing crew
Brad Hardy New Fun #3–6, 8–31 (Apr. 1935–May 1938) Shirtless adventurer, in the style of "Flash Gordon"
Spike Spaulding New Fun #3–6, 8–30 (Apr. 1935–Apr. 1938) Kid
Bob Merritt New Fun #5–25, 27–30 (Aug. 1935–Apr. 1938) Gentleman adventurer / inventor
Henri Duval New Fun #6–10 (Oct. 1935–May 1936) By Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster; historical, in the style of "Three Musketeers"
Dr. Occult New Fun #6–31 (Oct. 1935–June 1938) The first super-hero
becomes More Fun Comics (#7–127)
Character Appeared in Issues… Notes
Woozy Watts More Fun Comics #9–29 (Mar./Apr. 1936–Feb. 1938) Humor feature; by "Alger"/Russel Cole
Sam the Porter  More Fun Comics #11–30 (July 1936–March-April 1938) Humor featuring a Black character
Radio Squad More Fun Comics #11–25, 27–50, 52–87 (July 1936–Jan 1943) By Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster; police adventure, also in Flash #10, Oct. 1940
The Three Musketeers More Fun Comics #11–36 (July 1936–Oct. 1938) These literary characters (D'artagnion was based on a real person) would make occasional appearances over the years in the DCU; see Obscure Characters for more
Pirate Gold More Fun Comics #12–20, 22-30 (Aug. 1936–Apr. 1938) Historical / pirates
Pep Morgan More Fun Comics #12–29 (Aug. 1936–Feb. 1938) & Action #1–42 (June 1938–Nov 1941) All-around college athlete. Appeared with Mr. America in Action #33
Bradley Boys More Fun Comics #13–29 (Sept. 1936–Feb. 1938) two young boys, Tom and Jack
Mark Marson of the Interplanetary Police More Fun Comics #15–31 (Nov 1936–May 1938) Sci-fi à la Buck Rogers
Johnnie Law More Fun Comics #21–25, 28–44 (June 1937–June 1939) Cop
Marty McCann More Fun Comics #23–25, 28 (Aug. 1937–Jan. 1938) Dark-haired Navy boxing champ
Jack Wyatt More Fun Comics #27 (Dec. 1937) Western
Buzz Brown More Fun Comics #30–31 (Apr. 1938–May 1938) Schoolboy adventurer with friend
After Jerry Siegel and Joe Schuster left More Fun to work on "Superman," some of their features were canceled or slowly replaced. Their last issue was More Fun #32.
Red Logan More Fun Comics #31–37, 39, 40 (May 1938–Feb. 1939) Reporter. Moved to Detective Comics #38–43 (Apr. 1940–Sept. 1940)
Buccaneer More Fun Comics #32–51, (June 1938–Jan. 1940) Historical / pirates
Detective Sgt. Carey More Fun Comics #35–72 (Sept. 1938–Oct. 1942) Previously in Adventure Comics
Masked Ranger More Fun Comics #36–41 (Oct. 1938–Mar. 1939) Western
Gary Hawkes More Fun Comics #36–46 (Oct. 1938–Aug. 1939) Pilot / Soldier of Fortune
Lt. Bob Neal More Fun Comics #36-63 (Oct. 1938–Jan. 1941) Navy
Rex Darrel aka the Flying Fox More Fun Comics #37–38, 40–51 (Nov 1938–Jan. 1940) Pilot
Sgt. O'Malley of the Redcoat Patrol More Fun Comics #39–42, 45-72 (Jan. 1939–Oct. 1941) Canadian Mountie on the frontier
Biff Bronson More Fun Comics #43–67 (May 1939–May 1941)  
Bulldog Martin More Fun Comics #47–55, (Sept. 1939–June 1940) Has invisibility powers
King Carter More Fun Comics #49–54 (Nov 1939–Apr. 1940)  
Kit Strong More Fun Comics #51 (Jan. 1940)  
The Spectre More Fun Comics #52–101 (1940–1945) Super-hero, JSA member
Captain Desmo More Fun Comics #53–72 (Mar. 1940–Oct. 1941) Pilot
NOTE: After the Spectre's debut in #52, More Fun becomes dominated by super-heroes, with only a few new back-up characters
Dr. Fate More Fun Comics #55-98 (1940-44) Super-hero, JSA member
Congo Bill More Fun Comics #56–67 (June 1940–May 1941)  
Lance Larkin More Fun Comics #64–70 (Feb. 1941–Aug. 1941)  
Clip Carson More Fun Comics #68–76 (June 1941–Feb. 1942)  
Superboy More Fun Comics #101–107 (Jan./Feb. 1945–Jan./Feb. 1946)  
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