Volume: 2
Price: 0.10 USD
Pages: 68
On-sale Date: 1939-02-08
Editing: Vin Sullivan (credited as Vincent A. Sullivan) (editor)
Cover Thumbnail for Detective Comics (DC, 1937 series) #25 Edit Cover
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[no title indexed]
(Table of Contents)

cover / 1 page

Pencils:
Inks:
Colors:
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  • Genre:detective-mystery

Issue Data

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

Indexer Notes

On sale date from the publication date and the volume number found at the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, New Series, Volume 34, 1939, Number 1. Second class permit. Copyright number 408290.

[no title indexed]
(Table of Contents: 1)

Detective Puzzles / activity / 1 page

Script:
Pencils:
Inks:
Letters:
?

Indexer Notes

Inside front cover.

The Death Sled
(Table of Contents: 2)

Speed Saunders / comic story / 6 pages

Script:
Pencils:
Fred Guardineer (credited)
Inks:
Fred Guardineer (credited)
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:detective-mystery
Characters:
Jameson (villain, introduction); Tommy Dell (introduction, dies); Miss Evarts

[Auto Tire's "Fingerprints"!]
(Table of Contents: 3)

Crime Never Pays / comic story / 0.5 page

Script:
?
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?
Inks:
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Colors:
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Letters:
?
  • Genre:non-fiction; crime

Big Prizes and Cash Profits for Boys
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Crowell / Crowell-Collier Publishing Company Magazines / advertisement / 0.5 page

[The Model Murder Mystery, Part 2]
(Table of Contents: 5)

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:
Maurice Du Val (villain); Yvonne Beaumont (guest)

Death Masquerades
(Table of Contents: 6)

Buck Marshall / comic story / 6 pages

Script:
Pencils:
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Colors:
? (red tones)
Letters:
?
  • Genre:adventure; western-frontier
Characters:
Lute Martin (dead body); The Sheriff; John Whatley

Indexer Notes

story in red, white, and black

[The President's Assignment]
(Table of Contents: 7)

Spy / comic story / 6 pages

Script:
Jerry Siegel (credited)
Pencils:
Inks:
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:adventure; spy; detective-mystery
Characters:
Gregor (villain, introduction); Nanette (villain, introduction); another spy (villain, introduction)

Indexer Notes

Paul Cassidy commented that Siegel and Shuster left both himself and Wayne Boring to their own devices, with no interference in what they drew.

[no title indexed]
(Table of Contents: 8)

Oscar the Gumshoe / comic story / 1 page

Script:
Bob Kane (credited, signed)
Pencils:
Bob Kane (credited, signed)
Inks:
Bob Kane (credited, signed)
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:humor
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Whassa matter - You cops all eata up my bananas...
Characters:
Oscar Zilch; Officer Clancy; Officer O'Brian

[Sculptor Honored; Subway Honored; First Day Sales; Odds and Ends]
(Table of Contents: 9)

Stamp Collectors' Corner / Stamp Detective / Detective Stamp Page / text article / 0.67 page

Script:
?
Colors:
?
Letters:
typeset
  • Genre:non-fiction

Indexer Notes

Page includes several small ads from stamps dealers.

[no title indexed]
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Brownie Stamps; Capital Stamps; Daub Stamps; Eureka Stamps; Kent Stamps; Midwood Stamps; Mortimer Ellis Stamps; Roberts Stamps / advertisement / 0.33 page

[The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu, Part 9]
(Table of Contents: 11)

Fu Manchu / comic story / 4 pages

Script:
Sax Rohmer (credited) (original author)
Pencils:
Inks:
Colors:
?
Letters:
typeset
  • Genre:adventure; crime
Characters:
Dr. Fu Manchu; Dr. Petrie; Sir Dennis Nayland Smith; Rev. J D. Eltham; Greba Eltham
Reprints (0)
  • from Dr. Fu Manchu daily (Bell Syndicate)

Indexer Notes

Adapted from The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu by Sax Rohmer.

The strip appeared in newspapers in 1930 and 1931.

Secret Service Man
(Table of Contents: 12)

text story / 1.9 pages

Script:
Gardner Fox (credited as Paul Dean)
Pencils:
Inks:
Colors:
?
Letters:
typeset

How to Be Funny
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How To Make People Laugh! Humor Course / advertisement / 0.1 page

[The Airline Insurance Murders]
(Table of Contents: 14)

The Crimson Avenger / comic story / 6 pages

Script:
Pencils:
Jim Chambers (signed)
Inks:
Jim Chambers (signed)
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:superhero
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:In both cases the pilots bailed out...
  • Universe:DC : mainstream
Characters:
H. A. Powers (villain, introduction); Jenks (butler)

Back from the Dead [Part 2]
(Table of Contents: 15)

Bruce Nelson / comic story / 6 pages

Script:
Pencils:
Tom Hickey (credited) (signed as TH)
Inks:
Tom Hickey (credited) (signed as TH)
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:detective-mystery; adventure
Characters:
Jeff Virdone

Indexer Notes

Not on Bails' list of Fox stories

[Ma Pierce's Last Kidnapping]
(Table of Contents: 16)

Cosmo, the Phantom of Disguise / comic story / 6 pages

Script:
?
Pencils:
Sven Elven (illustrated by)
Inks:
Sven Elven (illustrated by)
Colors:
? (red tones)
Letters:
  • Genre:adventure; crime
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:About to enjoy a quiet evening at home...
  • Universe:DC : mainstream
Characters:
Ma Pierce (villain, introduction); her gang (villains, introduction); Reginald Barbart (introduction); his family (introduction)

Indexer Notes

story in red, white, and black

[The Merrivale Mystery]
(Table of Contents: 17)

Slam Bradley / comic story / 13 pages

Script:
Jerry Siegel (credited)
Pencils:
Inks:
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:detective-mystery
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:This beats usin' a punchin' bag, anytime!
  • Universe:DC : mainstream
Characters:
A registrar (villain, introduction)

[no title indexed]
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Johnson Smith & Co. Catalog / advertisement / 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]
  2. [no title indexed]
    Detective Puzzles
  3. The Death Sled
    Speed Saunders
  4. [Auto Tire's "Fingerprints"!]
    Crime Never Pays
  5. Big Prizes and Cash Profits for Boys
    Crowell / Crowell-Collier Publishing Company Magazines
  6. [The Model Murder Mystery, Part 2]
    Larry Steele
  7. Death Masquerades
    Buck Marshall
  8. [The President's Assignment]
    Spy
  9. ["Whassa matter - You cops all eata up my bananas..."]
    Oscar the Gumshoe
  10. [Sculptor Honored; Subway Honored; First Day Sales; Odds and Ends]
    Stamp Collectors' Corner / Stamp Detective / Detective Stamp Page
  11. [no title indexed]
    Brownie Stamps; Capital Stamps; Daub Stamps; Eureka Stamps; Kent Stamps; Midwood Stamps; Mortimer Ellis Stamps; Roberts Stamps
  12. [The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu, Part 9]
    Fu Manchu
  13. Secret Service Man
  14. How to Be Funny
    How To Make People Laugh! Humor Course
  15. [The Airline Insurance Murders]
    The Crimson Avenger
  16. Back from the Dead [Part 2]
    Bruce Nelson
  17. [Ma Pierce's Last Kidnapping]
    Cosmo, the Phantom of Disguise
  18. [The Merrivale Mystery]
    Slam Bradley
  19. [no title indexed]
    Johnson Smith & Co. Catalog
  20. [no title indexed]
    Johnson Smith & Co. Catalog
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