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Issue: Detective Picture Stories #2
Publication Date: January 1937
 
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Indicia Publisher: Comics Magazine Company Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: 1
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
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Content Items: 13 (9 stories, 1 cover)
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Pre-Golden Age U. S.
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
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Subject Matter
adventure
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Miscellaneous
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[untitled]

Credits  on  Interior Page(s)
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typeset
Subject Matter
Contents
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Miscellaneous
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Baffled by a Flower

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
superhero
The Clock; The Orchid (introduction)
The Clock stopped for a day...
A woman calling herself The Orchid is sitting behind a blonde man on an open-topped bus, when she notices brown hairs growing on the back of his nexk. She writes a note, which he picks up, stating she knows he is The Clock and to meet her at a specific time and place. Thinking this might lead to a romantic encounter, he attends and helps rescue her from a band of thugs, but she disappears into the night.
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in Wags Comics (Editors Press Service) #? [overseas]
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Murder at Midnight

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Subject Matter
humorous, mystery
Spurlock; Watkins; Colonel Thorndyke; Mrs. Thorndyke; Ling
Goodness what was that?
Colonel Thorndyke is murdered in his home, and the great detective is called in to solve the case.
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Miscellaneous
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Holmes & Watson style detectives. Humor
[untitled]

Activity  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Subject Matter
mystery
Clues Club
Suppose you were a detective!
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Miscellaneous
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Lester is credited on the contents page. A previous indexer thought this was signed ES instead of LES, which is understandable as the L is hard to make out because of some hatching, but it is there if you look.
The Trans-Atlantic Murder Mystery

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Subject Matter
mystery
Nikolas Gale; Inspector Craig; the Captain; Crimmins
Aboard the S.S. Gigantic...
Wealthy Nikolas Gale is murdered aboad the liner S.S. Gigantic, two days out of Southampton, England, and the fabulous Rajah Diamond stolen. Inspector Craig, on vacation, is also aboard and brings the murderer to justice.
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The Master Mind

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
mystery
Warren [The Master Mind]; Mrs. Gould; Larson the butler
Ain't that the guy they call the "Master Mind"?
The Master Mind solves the mystery of the murder of the wealthy Gould in his own home.
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Miscellaneous
7
Page seven is headed "The Solution to the Master Mind Mystery", and has our hero explaining the solution to the case.
Caught in the Act

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
crime
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Miscellaneous
2
A two page spread.
Diamond of Doom

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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?
Subject Matter
mystery
Speed Rush; O. Fenton; Machine Gun Corson (crook); Rocks McCool (crook)
We're going to be murdered, Detective Rush!
Speed Rush, "hard-boiled Ace of the private detectives", is called in by Fenton, who is charged by the Rajah of Dewar to cut the famous Dewar Diamond, worth half a million dollars. International diamond thief Rocks McCool steals the gem at gunpoint, and takes Rush and Fenton aboard a ship, intending to encase them in cement and drop them overboard. But Rush disarms one of the crooks and holds the others at gunpoint until the arrival of the Coast Guard.
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FlagAmazing Mystery Funnies v1 #2 published September 1938
as Diamond of Doom [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
7
The Case of The-Lizard

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Subject Matter
mystery
Clem Bowers; Dr. Harvey; Angus McKeever; Donovan; Kucharski
Who was that, Clem?
Bowers is called in on a case of espionage involving military secrets microscopically etched on glass, and transported in the gizzard of lizards.
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Miscellaneous
7
Sapphire Seas

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
? (2 spot illustrations)
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typeset
Subject Matter
adventure
Captain Eggers; Second Officer Harley; Andy Lauenberg; Miss Foster
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Miscellaneous
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Wharf Rat

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Subject Matter
mystery
Thurston Hunt; Tom; Slug Barton (crook); Mike (crook)
This Slug Barton...
Hunt and Tom are looking for Slug Barton and his gang of thieves on the waterfront, but are themselves captured. Managing to escape, they pursue Barton and Hunt shoots him.
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FlagKeen Detective Funnies v2 #8 published August 1939
as Wharf Rat [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
7
The Amateur Murder

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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?
Subject Matter
humorous, mystery
Lilly Belle Swidge; Whitney D. Le Zard; Norman Rogers
Away out west in San Francisco...
Lilly Belle rejects Le Zard's proposal of marriage in favor of Norman Rogers. Le Zard murders Rogers, staging it to look like a suicide, but still has no luck gaining her affections. Eventually, proof of the murder takes Le Zard to the electric chair.
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FlagFunny Picture Stories v3 #1 published January 1939
as The Amateur Murderer [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
7

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