Volume: 1
Price: 0.10 USD
Pages: 68
On-sale Date: 1937-09-10
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]
(Table of Contents)

Bruce Nelson / cover / 1 page

Pencils:
Inks:
Colors:
?
  • Genre:adventure; detective-mystery
Characters:
Lu Gong ?
Synopsis:
An Asian man is inspecting jewels.

Indexer Notes

Character previously listed as Lu Chung, but this does not match the character listed in the story sequence.

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.

Detective Comics
(Table of Contents: 1)

table of contents / 1 page

Script:
?
Letters:
typeset

Indexer Notes

Inside front cover. Includes indicia.

The River Patrol
(Table of Contents: 2)

Speed Saunders / comic story / 6 pages

Script:
Pencils:
Creig Flessel (credited as Fless)
Inks:
Creig Flessel (credited as Fless)
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:detective-mystery
Characters:
Fred Dunn (introduction); the Skipper (introduction); Inspector Moran
Synopsis:
Fred Dunn escapes San Sin Jail and Speed is assigned to the case. Both board a passenger ship but Dunn jumps overboard and Speed follows. They are picked up by a fishing boat. The captain refuses to put into shore, so they become crew members for the duration. Dunn saves the skipper from drowning. When they get to New Bedford Speed phones his boss, only to learn that Dunn has been cleared of all charges. Dunn returns to the ship, works hard and eventually becomes skipper of his own ship.

Indexer Notes

Gardner Fox does not begin writing until issue 18.

[no title indexed]
(Table of Contents: 3)

The Law Wins / cartoon / 0.67 page

Script:
?
Pencils:
Inks:
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:non-fiction; crime
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:When the killer pulls the trigger...

Nix on Parties... I'm Through!
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Hohner Harmonicas / advertisement / 0.33 page

[Mystery of the Wholesale Kidnappings, Part 4]
(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:
Squinty (villain); Dutch; Dr. Sargoff (introduction); Sonia Sargoff (introduction, his wife); Hatch; Hastings
Synopsis:
Larry is working with the F.B.I. to pursue a band of kidnappers. Disguised as a seaman, he meets Hatch, an old friend. Together they reach an old mansion and are amazed to find an operating room in the cellar, with four patients on separate tables. The doctor brags that these four are to be dissected and reassembled in order to create one perfect specimen. Larry and Hatch are discovered by the doctor's wife, who holds them at gunpoint.

[The Disappearance of Carl Huntley]
(Table of Contents: 6)

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:The police suspect foul play...
  • Universe:DC : mainstream
Characters:
Carl Huntley (introduction)
Synopsis:
Four bodies have been stolen from various morgues, and Cosmo is called in to help solve the case. He decides to stand vigil in the last morgue to be robbed. During the early hours of the morning the window opens, a man enters and carries out one of the bodies. Cosmo follows to an old farmhouse, and is amazed to find a well-equipped laboratory manned by the supposedly missing scientist Carl Huntley. Cosmo steps out of the shadows and Hartley sets fire to the lab. Cosmo rescues him, later explaining that strain and overwork had snapped Hartley's mind, but that he has been shocked back to sanity.

The Claws of the Red Dragon [Part 8]
(Table of Contents: 7)

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
Characters:
Lu Gong (villain); Chin Lung (villain); Sigrid Von Holtzendorf; Erick von Holtzendorf

Indexer Notes

conclusion of serial

The Laughing Mummy
(Table of Contents: 8)

text story / 6 pages

Script:
Vin Sullivan (credited as Paul Dean)
Pencils:
Creig Flessel (signed)
Inks:
Creig Flessel (signed)
Colors:
?
Letters:
typeset
  • Genre:detective-mystery
Characters:
Pop Regan; Sgt. Brooks; Captain Hammill; Stone

[no title indexed]
(Table of Contents: 9)

Bloodhound Brown / 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:humor; detective-mystery
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:They've sent for Bloodhound Brown to work on the Smith case.

[The Phony Pierre Blanc]
(Table of Contents: 10)

Spy / comic story / 4 pages

Script:
Pencils:
Joe Shuster (credited)
Inks:
Joe Shuster (credited)
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:adventure; detective-mystery; spy
Characters:
Pierre Blanc (introduction); a killer (introduction, villain)
Synopsis:
In Washington, D. C., Sally and Bart are assigned to protect the French Envoy, Pierre Blanc. At his apartment a man answers the door and insists he can take care of himself. Sally and Bart are stubborn and sit themselves down. The man acts suspiciously and a noise is heard from the closet. Blanc is inside tied up and, at gunpoint, the man tells the two agents to join him, so that he can kill them all together. Bart kicks the gun from his hand and the pair overpower him.

Lucky Hunch
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Buck Marshall / comic story / 6 pages

Script:
Pencils:
Inks:
Letters:
?
  • Genre:adventure; western-frontier
Characters:
Morgen (introduction, villain); The Sheriff; Rolf ; Berk
Synopsis:
Out on the range Buck finds a murdered cowboy belonging to the 2M ranch. Back in town he joins the Sheriff and rides out to the 2M, where the owner, Morgen, claims that his foreman, Rolf, saw rival ranch owner Berk in the vicinity about the time of the murder. They all ride over and Berk, unwilling to be railroaded by Morgen and Rolf, pulls a gun and rides off. They catch up with him and shoot it out, but Buck cleverly arranges for Rolf to confess that Morgen killed his own rider.

[The Hillbillies]
(Table of Contents: 12)

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:Put up yore hands, everybody!
  • Universe:DC : mainstream
Characters:
Zeke Willis (introduction, villain); Lem (introduction, villain); Lucy-Belle Willis (introduction); the Willises (introduction); the Tollivers (introduction)
Synopsis:
Slam foils a bank robbery, capturing Zeke Willis from the Kentucky Mountains. Willis escapes and Slam and Shorty go in pursuit. They uncover a feud between the Willis and Tolliver clans that has lasted a hundred years.

Indexer Notes

story title from next issue blurb in previous issue

Heigh Yo, Silver!
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The Lone Ranger Magazine / 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]
    Bruce Nelson
  2. Detective Comics
  3. The River Patrol
    Speed Saunders
  4. ["When the killer pulls the trigger..."]
    The Law Wins
  5. Nix on Parties... I'm Through!
    Hohner Harmonicas
  6. [Mystery of the Wholesale Kidnappings, Part 4]
    Larry Steele
  7. [The Disappearance of Carl Huntley]
    Cosmo, the Phantom of Disguise
  8. The Claws of the Red Dragon [Part 8]
    Bruce Nelson
  9. The Laughing Mummy
  10. ["They've sent for Bloodhound Brown to work on the Smith case."]
    Bloodhound Brown
  11. [The Phony Pierre Blanc]
    Spy
  12. Lucky Hunch
    Buck Marshall
  13. [The Hillbillies]
    Slam Bradley
  14. Heigh Yo, Silver!
    The Lone Ranger Magazine
  15. [no title indexed]
    Johnson Smith & Co. Catalog
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