More Fun Comics Archives

Launched in 1935 as New Fun and then continued as More Fun, More Fun Comics was the legacy of DC Comics' first ongoing series.  Originally a mix of humor and adventure features, the series contents and covers largely lived up to the notion of fun implied in the title in its earliest days Serious adventure[...]

Launched in 1935 as New Fun and then continued as More Fun, More Fun Comics was the legacy of DC Comics' first ongoing series.  Originally a mix of humor and adventure features, the series contents and covers largely lived up to the notion of fun implied in the title.  Serious adventure artwork began to take[...]

More Fun Comics #45, cover-dated July 1939 (and on the newsstands that June), hit the newsstands at an interesting time for DC Comics and the comic book publishing industry at large Action Comics was on issue #15 at the time, having debuted Superman over a year prior Detective Comics #29 was featuring Batman on its[...]

We've talked about this before: After decades of being considered an afterthought by most vintage comics collectors, Green Arrow and Aquaman's first appearances in More Fun Comics #73 has taken a sharp rise on the market in recent times A More Fun Comics #73 CGC 5.0 could be had for $4495 in 2006, while a[...]

After decades of being considered an afterthought by most vintage comics collectors, Green Arrow and Aquaman's first appearances in More Fun Comics #73 has taken a sharp rise on the market in recent times For example, a More Fun Comics #73 CGC 5.0 could be had for $4495 in 2006, while a copy in the[...]

And that was More Fun Comics #73 That's right, a comic called "More Fun" was popular enough to get up to at least 73 issues It was even originally called New Fun, and that didn't stop it The first comic published by Major Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson in 1935 was the first comic of what would later[...]

One of the highlights that interests me the most is the $111,000 paid for a copy of More Fun Comics #73 CGC 7.5 — the highest price ever paid for a copy of this comic in any grade The November 1941 cover-dated release from DC Comics contains the first appearances of both Aquaman and Green[...]

As we mentioned in a recent post about the $250,000 sale of a Daredevil #1 CGC 9.8, 2021 has been a banner year for the vintage comics market in the early going, and ComicConnect has recently booked a number of other noteworthy sales of key issues including Batman #1, More Fun Comics #73, (the first[...]