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  • Adventure Comics used to be a mixture of superhero and humor strips. The mix was kind of eclectic. 1 / 11

  • Over time, the superhero features began to fall off, like Hourman getting canceled. 2 / 11

  • More Fun Comics was also a superhero comic, but it added humor strips, as well. 3 / 11

  • Over time, the superhero features in More Fun also fell by the wayside, like Doctor Fate... 4 / 11

  • and also Spectre, who also went into limbo in 1945 (after Dr. Fate left in 1944). 5 / 11

  • More Fun Comics had that same weird mix of superhero and humor comics. 6 / 11

  • But finally, after Adventure Comics #102, DC made a big change. 7 / 11

  • Sandman, which went through a popular Kirby/Simon revamp, was canceled. 8 / 11

  • Starman also saw his last appearance in the pages of Adventure Comics. 9 / 11

  • More Fun Comics then got Genius Jones from Adventure Comics and had all comedy strips from that point forward. 10 / 11

  • Adventure Comics then got the superhero features from More Fun Comics and it became purely a superhero series. 11 / 11