Volume: 3
Price: 0.10 USD
Pages: 68
On-sale Date: 1939-08-30
Editing: Vin Sullivan (credited as Vincent A. Sullivan) (editor)
Cover Thumbnail for Detective Comics (DC, 1937 series) #32 Edit Cover
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[no title indexed]
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cover / 1 page

Pencils:
Inks:
Colors:
?
Letters:
typeset
  • Genre:crime
Characters:
The Batman [Bruce Wayne] (inset)
Reprints (6)

Issue Data

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

Indexer Notes

On sale date from the publication date and volume number found in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, New Series, Volume 34, 1939, Number 4. Class B periodical. Copyright number B 427468. The volume number is not found in the comic itself.

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

[Batman vs. the Vampire, Part 2]
(Table of Contents: 2)

Batman / comic story / 10 pages

Script:
Pencils:
Bob Kane (credited, signed)
Sheldon Moldoff (ghosted for Bob Kane) (backgrounds)
Inks:
Bob Kane (credited, signed)
Colors:
?
Letters:
  • Genre:superhero
Characters:
Dala (villain, vampire, introduction, death)
Synopsis:
Reaching Hungary with Julie, the Batman runs into another vampire, who wants to make a deal with him: if she shows him the Monk's hideout, will he kill him?
Reprints (11)

Indexer Notes

Batman shoots and kills all the vampires in the Monk's hideout.

Storyline continued from last issue.

[Bill De Correvont]
(Table of Contents: 3)

Odds 'n Ends / cartoon / 0.5 page

Script:
Sheldon Moldoff (credited)
Pencils:
Sheldon Moldoff (credited)
Inks:
Sheldon Moldoff (credited)
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:non-fiction
Characters:
Bill de Correvont

A Bike for You
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Crowell / Crowell-Collier Publishing Company Magazines / advertisement / 0.5 page

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

Spy / comic story / 6 pages

Script:
Jerry Siegel (credited)
Pencils:
Mart Bailey (credited) (signed as M B)
Inks:
Mart Bailey (credited) (signed as M B)
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:adventure; detective-mystery; spy
Characters:
Retjen

The Last Act
(Table of Contents: 6)

Buck Marshall / comic story / 6 pages

Script:
?
Pencils:
Inks:
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:western-frontier; adventure
Characters:

[Wonders of the Laboratory Are Now at the Progressive Crime-Fighters' Command]
(Table of Contents: 7)

Crime Never Pays / cartoon / 1 page

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

[Vatican Stamp Released; Bridal Pair Portrayed; Rumanian Poet Honored]
(Table of Contents: 8)

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

Script:
?
Colors:
? (black, red & blue letters)
Letters:
typeset
  • Genre:non-fiction

Indexer Notes

Page includes several small ads from stamps dealers.

[no title indexed]
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Brownie Stamps; Globus Stamps; Monumental Stamps; Mortimer Ellis Stamps; Pilgrim Stamps / Pilgrims Stamps; Professor Eureka; Roberts Stamps / advertisement / 0.33 page

[Doris Dumont]
(Table of Contents: 10)

Larry Steele / comic story / 6 pages

Script:
?
Pencils:
Ken Ernst (credited, signed)
Inks:
Ken Ernst (credited, signed)
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:detective-mystery; crime
Characters:
Doris Dumont

Vanishing Gems
(Table of Contents: 11)

text story / 1.95 pages

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

Free Attracive Catalog
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Metal Arts Rings & Pins / advertisement / 0.05 page

The Skull-Face Cult
(Table of Contents: 13)

Speed Saunders / comic story / 6 pages

Script:
?
Pencils:
Fred Guardineer (credited)
Inks:
Fred Guardineer (credited)
Colors:
?
Letters:
  • Genre:detective-mystery
Characters:

[The Governor Assasinated]
(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)
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:adventure
Characters:

Indexer Notes

Writer credit added by Craig Delich.

[Rosemary Blaine]
(Table of Contents: 15)

Bruce Nelson / comic story / 6 pages

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

[The Wrong Guy]
(Table of Contents: 16)

Slam Bradley / comic story / 13 pages

Script:
Jerry Siegel (credited)
Pencils:
Joe Shuster (credited)
Inks:
Joe Shuster (credited)
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:detective-mystery
Characters:
Cyrus Painter; The Man-Beast (villain)
Synopsis:
Slam breaks up a hold-up by socking the wrong guy.

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

Be a Frontiersman
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Daisy Air Rifles / Daisy B-B Guns / advertisement / 1 page

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Table of Contents ToC
    Table of Contents
  1. [no title indexed]
  2. [no title indexed]
    Johnson Smith & Co. Catalog
  3. [Batman vs. the Vampire, Part 2]
    Batman
  4. [Bill De Correvont]
    Odds 'n Ends
  5. A Bike for You
    Crowell / Crowell-Collier Publishing Company Magazines
  6. ["While in the midst of underwater maneuvers..."]
    Spy
  7. The Last Act
    Buck Marshall
  8. [Wonders of the Laboratory Are Now at the Progressive Crime-Fighters' Command]
    Crime Never Pays
  9. [Vatican Stamp Released; Bridal Pair Portrayed; Rumanian Poet Honored]
    Stamp Collectors' Corner / Stamp Detective / Detective Stamp Page
  10. [no title indexed]
    Brownie Stamps; Globus Stamps; Monumental Stamps; Mortimer Ellis Stamps; Pilgrim Stamps / Pilgrims Stamps; Professor Eureka; Roberts Stamps
  11. [Doris Dumont]
    Larry Steele
  12. Vanishing Gems
  13. Free Attracive Catalog
    Metal Arts Rings & Pins
  14. The Skull-Face Cult
    Speed Saunders
  15. [The Governor Assasinated]
    Cosmo, the Phantom of Disguise
  16. [Rosemary Blaine]
    Bruce Nelson
  17. [The Wrong Guy]
    Slam Bradley
  18. [no title indexed]
    Johnson Smith & Co. Catalog
  19. Be a Frontiersman
    Daisy Air Rifles / Daisy B-B Guns
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