Comic Title: More Fun Comics #61
Publisher: DC (Detective Comics, Inc.)
Address: 480 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY
Cover Date: November 1940
Approx. On Sale Date: October 1, 1940 Copyright Date September 27, 1940
Source: Library of Congress, Periodicals 1940
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: Fredric Whitney Ellsworth

Title: (Menace of the Nebula)
Pages: 6

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 More Fun Comics #60; next appearance in More Fun Comics #62)

Supporting Character(s)

• Inza Cramer (last appearance in More Fun Comics #60; next appearance in More Fun Comics #62)

Villain(s)

• The Globe Men and several globular beings (die in this story; no further appearances)
• A mad scientist (dies in this story; no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• A group of scientists (no further appearances)

Comments:
This story was not originally titled.

Synopsis:
Doctor Fate investigates a mysterious nebula that has appeared in space between the Earth and the Sun. Inside, he discovers a globular being that threatens to cause disruptions in Earth's orbit. Doctor Fate returns to Earth and warns scientists about the impending disaster. He then goes back into space carrying a weapon from Uranus which he uses to destroy the menace.

When Doctor Fate lands back on Earth he believes that the threat is over but the scientists inform him that more globular beings have been detected. The sorcerer meets them in space and destroys them all. He then traces them back to a pirate planet where a race of evil Globe Men live. Doctor Fate destroys their weapons and directs the planet into the Sun.

Doctor Fate returns to Earth again where he confronts a mad scientist who has used a new invention to bring the pirate planet toward Earth. The scientist attacks him, so Doctor Fate kills him. Fate then destroys the scientist's equipment so that no one will be able to use it to threaten the world.