Volume: 1
Price: 0.10 USD
Pages: 68
On-sale Date: 1937-06-10
Editing: Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson (credited) (editor and publisher); Vin Sullivan (credited as Vincent A. Sullivan) (associate editor); Whitney Ellsworth (credited as F. Whitney Ellsworth) (associate editor)
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[no title indexed]
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Speed Saunders / cover / 1 page

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?
  • Genre:detective-mystery
Characters:

Issue Data

  • Indicia / Colophon Publisher: Detective Comics Inc.
  • Indicia Frequency: monthly
  • Printer: [none printed]

Indexer Notes

The on-sale date is the publication date reported in the U. S. Copyright Office filing.

The Comic Headliner!
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More Fun Comics / promo (ad from the publisher) / 0.67 page

[no title indexed]
(Table of Contents: 2)

credits, title page / 0.33 page

Script:
?
Letters:
typeset

[Undercover in Grade School]
(Table of Contents: 3)

Slam Bradley / comic story / 13 pages

Script:
Pencils:
Joe Shuster (credited)
Inks:
Joe Shuster (credited)
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:detective-mystery
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:If I wasn't so sore at you...
  • Universe:DC : mainstream
Characters:
Miss Quail; The Blackmoore Gang; Miss Cambel; Muggsy; Slugger
Synopsis:
In order to help out Slam's sixth grade teacher, Shorty has to go undercover as a student.

The Path of Thorns
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Buck Marshall / comic story / 6 pages

Script:
Pencils:
Inks:
Letters:
?
  • Genre:adventure; western-frontier
Characters:
The Sheriff; Jack Darsey; Rancher Warner; Kane (the foreman); Stan Martin
Synopsis:
Buck and the Sheriff ride to the Warner Ranch, where Jack Darsey has been robbed of the payroll. They eventually discover that Kane, the foreman (real name Lopez, wanted for bank robbery), was responsible.

The Claws of the Red Dragon [Part 5]
(Table of Contents: 5)

Bruce Nelson / comic story / 12 pages

Script:
Pencils:
Tom Hickey (credited, signed)
Inks:
Tom Hickey (credited, signed)
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:detective-mystery; adventure
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Bruce Nelson was forced to stand and witness the murder...
  • Universe:DC : mainstream
Characters:
Stucchi (villain); Sigrid Von Holtzendorff
Synopsis:
Bruce finds Sigrid in a house full of Chinese gangsters but she won't leave until they find her father.

Winged Death
(Table of Contents: 6)

text story / 6 pages

Script:
Pencils:
Creig Flessel (credited) (signed as Creig Flessel) (illustrated by)
Inks:
Creig Flessel (credited) (signed as Creig Flessel) (illustrated by)
Colors:
?
Letters:
typeset
  • Genre:adventure; aviation
Characters:
Terry Rutledge; Charles Hilton; Virginia Hilton; Blagg

Indexer Notes

penname identified in Jerry Bails' Who's Who.

The Elm Park Mystery
(Table of Contents: 7)

comic story / 4 pages

Script:
Russell Cole (credited as Alger)
Pencils:
Russell Cole (credited as Alger)
Inks:
Russell Cole (credited as Alger)
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:detective-mystery
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:How peaceful!

[The Balinoff Case, Part 5]
(Table of Contents: 8)

Spy / comic story / 4 pages

Script:
Pencils:
Joe Shuster (credited)
Inks:
Joe Shuster (credited)
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:adventure; spy; detective-mystery
  • Feature Logo:Spy!
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:An unexpected call...
  • Universe:DC : mainstream
Characters:
Olga Balinoff (villain); her spy ring (villains)
Synopsis:
Bart finally confesses to Sally why he tried to break off their relationship. After she helps him capture Olga Balinoff, she applies for a job with the same agency Bart works for.

[The Dope Torpedo]
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Cosmo, the Phantom of Disguise / comic story / 6 pages

Script:
Pencils:
Sven Elven (credited as Sven Elvén) (illustrated by)
Inks:
Sven Elven (credited as Sven Elvén) (illustrated by)
Letters:
?
  • Genre:drama; detective-mystery; adventure
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:We know for a certainty...
  • Universe:DC : mainstream
Characters:
Commissioner Stone
Synopsis:
Cosmo is asked to investigate the smuggling of dope into the country on the ships of the Largo Line. Disguising himself as a Portuguese sailor, he abducts one of the crew. The first mate, finding himself short of a deck-hand, goes ashore and hires Cosmo. Eventually, Cosmo discovers that the captain and mate are using a torpedo gun to fire metal cylinders of dope onto the New Jersey shore.

[Mystery of the Wholesale Kidnappings, Part 1]
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Larry Steele / comic story / 6 pages

Script:
Bill Ely (credited as Will Georgi)
Pencils:
Bill Ely (credited as Will Georgi)
Inks:
Bill Ely (credited as Will Georgi)
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:detective-mystery; crime
Characters:
Mr. Steele (introduction, Larry's father)

[A Most Fishy Robbery]
(Table of Contents: 11)

Speed Saunders / comic story / 6 pages

Script:
Creig Flessel (credited as Fless)
Pencils:
Creig Flessel (credited as Fless)
Inks:
Creig Flessel (credited as Fless)
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:detective-mystery
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Stick 'em up! Get the payroll, Mike!
  • Universe:DC : mainstream
Characters:
Synopsis:
Speed finds that criminals are smuggling gold inside the bodies of fish.
Reprints (1)

Indexer Notes

Flessel said he wrote these in Alter Ego #45 (February 2005).

[no title indexed]
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Silly Sleuths / cartoon / 1 page

Script:
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?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:humor
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:I see you've made a slight error - Clancy...

Flash! Ask for It by Name!
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New Adventure Comics / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page

[no title indexed]
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Johnson Smith & Co. Catalog / advertisement / 1 page

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Table of Contents ToC
    Table of Contents
  1. [no title indexed]
    Speed Saunders
  2. The Comic Headliner!
    More Fun Comics
  3. [no title indexed]
  4. [Undercover in Grade School]
    Slam Bradley
  5. The Path of Thorns
    Buck Marshall
  6. The Claws of the Red Dragon [Part 5]
    Bruce Nelson
  7. Winged Death
  8. The Elm Park Mystery
  9. [The Balinoff Case, Part 5]
    Spy
  10. [The Dope Torpedo]
    Cosmo, the Phantom of Disguise
  11. [Mystery of the Wholesale Kidnappings, Part 1]
    Larry Steele
  12. [A Most Fishy Robbery]
    Speed Saunders
  13. ["I see you've made a slight error - Clancy..."]
    Silly Sleuths
  14. Flash! Ask for It by Name!
    New Adventure Comics
  15. [no title indexed]
    Johnson Smith & Co. Catalog
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