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Issue: Detective Comics #3
Publication Date: May 1937
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Issues: #3 of 883 Issues (1409 Printings)
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Rating: [no rating]
Publisher: FlagDC
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Detective Comics Inc.
On Sale Date: 04/10/1937
Volume: 1
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
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Content Items: 14 (9 stories, 1 cover)
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color cover; color interior
Dimensions: standard Golden Age US; standard Silver Age US; standard Modern Age US
Paper Stock: newsprint; glossy
Binding: saddle-stitched; squarebound
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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First Line: In all my years of detective work...
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A Stowaway in Need

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Genres: adventure, mystery
Character(s): Speed Saunders; "Spider" Liverman (villain); Lora
First Line: Down at the waterfront...
Synopsis: Speed hires a sloop to go on vacation, but out on the sound finds he has a female stowaway. She is Lora, who has escaped from the clutches of "Spider" Liverman with plans for a typewriter invented by her late brother. Liverman and his two henchmen intercept the boat and smash it. Speed and Lora are captured, but Speed fools the thugs into thinking the boat is sinking. They cast off in a row boat and Speed replaces the plug he had pulled out. They catch up with the crooks and Speed overcomes them.
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The Air-Mail Mystery

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Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Hope Hazard G-Woman
Character(s): Hope Hazard; Bill Littlejohn (pilot); Xavier, The Master
First Line: Well, here I am!
Synopsis: Hope is called in to investigate the mysterious disappearance of three planes. She boards the next flight out, and, when over the mountains, the motor cuts out. After a rough landing she and the pilot are met by men with guns, the leader of whom tells how he used his Z Ray to cripple the planes. In a bend of the mountain ledge, Littlejohn attacks the leader, and Hope grabs the gun and holds the others at bay. Going through a tunnel, they come out above a cavern with men standing around the Master. Littlejohn wants to escape but Hope insists they find and destroy the Z Ray
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The Kidnapping of Angus MacDonald

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Genres: adventure, mystery
Character(s): Cosmo; Angus MacDonald; Ethel MacDonald; Louie; Roxton (villain)
First Line: In the wealthy section of a big seaport city...
Synopsis: As Angus MacDonald, President of the Two Star Steamship Company, is leaving to give a speech to a board meeting, he is abducted by rough looking thugs. Mrs. MacDonald calls Cosmo, famous detective and friend of the family, and he has her postpone the meeting until that afternoon. Cosmo appears in the guise of MacDonald, and one board member is visibly shocked. Cosmo forces him to tell the location of the real MacDonald and reveals a plot by the Seamen's Union to prevent MacDonald from giving his speech.
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The Claws of the Dragon, Part 3

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Genres: mystery
Character(s): Bruce Nelson; Sigrid Von Holtzendorf; Hong Ah Kay; Sing Dock; Officer Mulrooney; Joe Stucchi; Tom Lee
First Line: It is time that we remove him...
Synopsis: A bloody Tong war is raging in New York's Chinatown district. On Long Island, Bruce Nelson is held at gunpoint by Joe Stucchi. Nelson overcomes him and hides when he hears the sound of approaching men. Five Asians with long knifes are looking for him. He hides in the roof beams of the summer house and overcomes one of the thugs. A scream from the house sends the others in that direction, and, when Bruce follows, he sees member of the Tong standing over the assassin, Tom Lee. Sigrid's father, Von Holtzendorf, arrives and is clearly in cahoots with the Tong.
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Shooting Lesson

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Genres: adventure
Character(s): State Trooper Marden; Doran (Public Enemy Number 1)
First Line: As the powerful black sedan careened...
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The Wales Case

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Genres: humorous
Character(s): Elmer Bell; Helen White; Jasper Wales; Grandpa Spears; Col. Aspinwall; Dimwit Bayles
First Line: To Dingtown came...
Synopsis: Elmer Bell shoots Jasper Wales but has an iron-clad alibi. After fifty witnesses identify him in court it transpires that he has a twin brother.
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The Nearly-Weds

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Genres: adventure, espionage
Character(s): Philip Marsden; Sally; Bart Regan; Olga Balinoff (villain)
First Line: Do you, Philip Marsden...
Synopsis: Olga Balinoff is still after the stolen bronze figure, and abducts Sally at her nuptials, knowing that ex-G.I. agent Regan will try to save her.
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Bullets in the Dark

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Genres: adventure, western
Character(s): Buck Marshall; Bull Leary; Jim Slade
First Line: After a long day's ride...
Synopsis: Buck arrests Leary and takes him to the sheriff. Returning to the line shack he is himself captured by ranch foreman Slade, who also brings him to the sheriff, charging him with being one of the rustlers. Leary, in one of the cells accuses Slade of hiring him to rustle cattle.
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Genres: mystery
Character(s): Slam Bradley; Shorty; D'arcy (villain); Purnelli (villain)
First Line: Sighting a group of hoodlums...
Synopsis: Slam and Shorty get caught in the middle of a double-cross.
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Feature(s): Detective Comics
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Feature(s): Johnson Smith & Co.
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