Price: 0.10 USD
Pages: 68
On-sale Date: 1938-01-10
Editing: Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson (credited) (editor and publisher); Vin Sullivan (credited as Vincent A. Sullivan) (associate editor)
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[no title indexed]
(Table of Contents)

cover / 1 page

Pencils:
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Colors:
?
  • Genre:crime

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.

News!
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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

Indexer Notes

inside front cover

[The Indian Oil Well Mystery]
(Table of Contents: 3)

Speed Saunders / comic story / 6 pages

Script:
Pencils:
Creig Flessel (credited)
Inks:
Creig Flessel (credited)
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:adventure; detective-mystery
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:A dust-covered roadster...
  • Universe:DC : mainstream
Characters:
Objaw-wa Indians (villains)

Indexer Notes

We formerly credited the script of this story to Gardner Fox, but in an interview in Alter Ego #20 (June 2003), he stated that his first comic story, sold in March 1938, appeared in Detective Comics #18.

Big Prizes and Cash Profits!
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Crowell / Crowell-Collier Publishing Company Magazines / advertisement / 0.33 page

[no title indexed]
(Table of Contents: 5)

cartoon / 0.33 page

Script:
?
Pencils:
?
Inks:
?
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:non-fiction
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:The men of the F.B.I. (Federal Bureau of Investigation)...

[no title indexed]
(Table of Contents: 6)

statement of ownership / 0.33 page

Script:
Letters:
typeset

Indexer Notes

Publisher: Detective Comics Inc
432 Fourth Ave
New York, NY
Editor Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson
Business Manager J. S. Liebowitz 114 E 47th St, New York , NY
Owners: Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson, J.S. Liebowitz

[The Nick Orsatti Case, Part 3]
(Table of Contents: 7)

Larry Steele / comic story / 6 pages

Script:
Bill Ely (credited as Will Ely)
Pencils:
Bill Ely (credited as Will Ely)
Inks:
Bill Ely (credited as Will Ely)
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:detective-mystery; crime
Characters:
Nick Orsatti (villain)

[The Jenks Kidnapping Case, Part 1]
(Table of Contents: 8)

Larry Steele / comic story / 6 pages

Script:
Pencils:
Inks:
Letters:
?
  • Genre:detective-mystery; crime
  • Feature Logo:Larry Steele
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:A week later, Larry is discharged from his sick bed...
  • Universe:DC : mainstream
Characters:
Nancy Jenks (introduction); Mr. Jenks; a gang of kidnappers (villains)

Murder in the Clouds [Part 1]
(Table of Contents: 9)

Bruce Nelson / comic story / 12 pages

Script:
Pencils:
Tom Hickey (credited) (signed as TH)
Inks:
Tom Hickey (credited) (signed as TH)
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:detective-mystery; adventure
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:A huge, low-winged monoplane...
  • Universe:DC : mainstream
Characters:
Harry Ward (villain, introduction); Clifford (villain, introduction)

Counterfeit
(Table of Contents: 10)

text story / 5.9 pages

Script:
Pencils:
Creig Flessel (signed as CF)
Inks:
Creig Flessel (signed as CF)
Colors:
?
Letters:
typeset
  • Genre:adventure; detective-mystery

This Genuine Junior Guitar For You!
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Lancaster County Seeds / advertisement / 0.1 page

The Adams Case
(Table of Contents: 12)

comic story / 4 pages

Script:
Russell Cole (credited as Alger)
Pencils:
Russell Cole (credited as Alger)
Inks:
Russell Cole (credited as Alger)
Colors:
?
Letters:
?

[Assassins in the Rue Molin]
(Table of Contents: 13)

Spy / comic story / 4 pages

Script:
Jerry Siegel (credited as Siegel)
Pencils:
Joe Shuster (credited as Shuster)
Inks:
Joe Shuster (credited as Shuster)
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:adventure; spy; detective-mystery
Characters:
Rene D'Arnot (introduction, villain, death); unnamed spies (introduction, villain)
Synopsis:
Rene D'Arnot is killed by Bart Regan.

[The Sabotaged Newspaper]
(Table of Contents: 14)

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:detective-mystery; adventure
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:They seem to stand better than a fair chance...
  • Universe:DC : mainstream
Characters:
Coronel (introduction); Col. Jefferson Towne (introduction); Henry Braddock (villain, introduction)

Indexer Notes

Letterer credit by Craig Delich.

[The Lumberjacks]
(Table of Contents: 15)

Slam Bradley / comic story / 13 pages

Script:
Pencils:
Joe Shuster (credited)
Inks:
Joe Shuster (credited)
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:adventure; detective-mystery
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Look out, Shorty...
  • Universe:DC : mainstream
Characters:
Pierre (introduction); Niles Hogarth (villain, introduction)

Indexer Notes

Story title taken from next issue blurb in previous issue.

Floyd Stimson Official Parachute Tester
(Table of Contents: 16)

comic story / 1 page

Script:
Bill Ely (signed as Ely)
Pencils:
Bill Ely (signed as Ely)
Inks:
Bill Ely (signed as Ely)
Letters:
?
  • Genre:non-fiction
Characters:
Floyd Stimson

Indexer Notes

inside back cover

[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]
  2. News!
    More Fun Comics
  3. [no title indexed]
  4. [The Indian Oil Well Mystery]
    Speed Saunders
  5. Big Prizes and Cash Profits!
    Crowell / Crowell-Collier Publishing Company Magazines
  6. ["The men of the F.B.I. (Federal Bureau of Investigation)..."]
  7. [no title indexed]
  8. [The Nick Orsatti Case, Part 3]
    Larry Steele
  9. [The Jenks Kidnapping Case, Part 1]
    Larry Steele
  10. Murder in the Clouds [Part 1]
    Bruce Nelson
  11. Counterfeit
  12. This Genuine Junior Guitar For You!
    Lancaster County Seeds
  13. The Adams Case
  14. [Assassins in the Rue Molin]
    Spy
  15. [The Sabotaged Newspaper]
    Cosmo, the Phantom of Disguise
  16. [The Lumberjacks]
    Slam Bradley
  17. Floyd Stimson Official Parachute Tester
  18. [no title indexed]
    Johnson Smith & Co. Catalog
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