Comic Title: More Fun Comics #85
Publisher: DC (Detective Comics, Inc.)
Address: 480 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY
Cover Date: November 1942
Approx. On Sale Date: September 18, 1942 Copyright Date September 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: "When Money Talks"
Pages: 10

Feature(s):
Spectre (of Earth-2)

Writer: Jerry Siegel
Artist: Bernard Baily

Feature Character(s)

• Spectre (last appearance in Wonder Woman #241; next appearance in More Fun Comics #86)

Supporting Character(s)

• Percival Popp (last appearance in More Fun Comics #84; next appearance in More Fun Comics #86)

Villain(s)

• Monk Johnson and his gang (counterfeiters; no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Hiram Mink and his unnamed wife (no further appearances)
• Charley Ruffle (a farmer; no further appearances)
• A young spendthrift (no further appearances)

Synopsis:
Percival Popp enlists the aid of the Spectre to convince bank clark Hiram Mink to keep his job. Mink is bored with the bank job, so Spectre shows him a happy farmer, and the story behind some counterfeit money. Mink still refuses to change his mind, so Spectre shows him another man, who carelessly quit his job and gambled his money away. Mink learns from the example, so he keeps his job and invests in war bonds.