Comic Title: More Fun Comics #84
Publisher: DC (Detective Comics, Inc.)
Address: 480 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY
Cover Date: October 1942
Approx. On Sale Date: August 19, 1942 Copyright Date August 15, 1942
Source: Library of Congress, Periodicals 1942
Until 1958 DC did not report actual on sale dates to the copyright office
The publication dates listed in LoC records are NOT release dates.


Frequency: Monthly
Cover Price: $0.10
Page Count: 64
Editor: Mort Weisinger

Title: "Crime's Hobby House"
Pages: 10

Feature(s):
Doctor Fate (Kent Nelson of Earth-2)

Writer: Gardner F. Fox
Artist: Howard Sherman

Reprinted In:
Golden Age Doctor Fate Archives Vol. 1 HC (2007)

Feature Character(s)

• Doctor Fate (last appearance in All-Star Squadron #49; next appearance in All-Star Squadron #50)

Supporting Character(s)

• Inza Cramer (last appearance in More Fun Comics #83; next appearance in All-Star Squadron #50)

Villain(s)

• Mordaunt Grimm (no further appearances)
• Several hired henchmen (no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Henry Cord (a millionaire; no further appearances)
• An unnamed police chief (no further appearances)

Synopsis:
Movie studio executive Mordaunt Grimm is inspired by a film involving the hobbies of wealthy men. He begins uses hobbies in a series of daring robberies. Doctor Fate is summoned by the police chief to help stop the crimes. He apprehends a gang that Grimm has hired to assist him. When the crook realizes that Doctor Fate is after him he prepares a trap to target Fate's weakness, his lungs. Doctor Fate avoid the trap and captures Grimm.