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Issue: Detective Comics #4
Publication Date: June 1937
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Issues: #4 of 883 Issues (1380 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: [no rating]
Publisher: FlagDC
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Detective Comics Inc.
On Sale Date: 05/10/1937
Volume: 1
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
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Content Items: 18 (9 stories, 1 cover)
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Disclose Notes: On-sale date from copyright registration.
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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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Genres: mystery
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Pages: 1
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The Comic Headliner!

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Letterer(s): typeset
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Feature(s): More Fun Comics
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Pages: 0.67
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Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 0.33
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The Mystery of San Jose Island

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Genres: mystery
Feature(s): Speed Saunders
Character(s): Speed Saunders; Arthur Bell (introduction, death); May Adams (introduction); Nick Del Borno (introduction, villain); "Padre" Desoto (introduction, villain)
Synopsis: Speed flies to San Jose Island to investigate the death of a friend. Disguising himself as a ragged old beggar he meets May Adams, another friend of Arthur Bell, in a bar. He is abducted but finally brings the murderer to justice.
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Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Creig Flessel claimed he wrote these in Alter Ego #45 (February 2005).
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Letterer(s): typeset
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Feature(s): The Crowell Publishing Co.
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Pages: 0.25
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Feature(s): New Book of Comics
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Genres: humorous
First Line: Hey - Pop - Why are yuh burgling that safe?
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Pages: 0.33
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The Rajah's Ruby

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Genres: mystery
Feature(s): Cosmo, the Phantom of Disguise
Character(s): Cosmo; Capt. Nelson (intro); Paul Hartley (intro); Rajah Daj (intro); VILLAIN: Hutchinson (intro)
First Line: Aboard the steamship Empress of India...
Synopsis: Cosmo is sailing to Bombay. The Captain asks him to help gem merchant Hartley, who is to deliver a precious ruby to the Rajah Daj. He disguises himself as a deaf mute native and secures passage on a caravan heading inland. Cosmo delivers the ruby without mishap, but Hartley is kidnapped by Hutchinson, who orders him killed. Cosmo, still in disguise, is nearby and saves him.
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Pages: 6
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Death Message

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Genres: western
Feature(s): Buck Marshall, Range Detective
Character(s): Buck Marshall; VILLAINS: Vanter (intro); Lefty Logan (intro)
Synopsis: Buck accompanies the sheriff to the Diamond V Ranch, where Vanter has found his partner shot in the back. In a hotel, Buck spots the crooked Logan, who has been hanging around for the past six months. Trailing him, Buck sees Logan and another man packing sacks with slaughtered beef. The captured Logan tells of how Vanter paid him, in order to sell the meat.
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The Claws of the Red Dragon [Part 4]

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Genres: mystery
Feature(s): Bruce Nelson
Character(s): Bruce Nelson; von Holtzendorff; Stucchi (villain)
First Line: It is von Holtzendorff...
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Pages: 12
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The Evil Oak

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): Vin Sullivan [as Paul Dean] (credited)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: drama, mystery
Character(s): Detective Pat Byrne; Stanley Harwick; Bates; Police Captain Mahoney
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In Content Item: FlagAtomic Comics #1 published January 1946
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Pages: 6
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The Bumps Mystery

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Genres: mystery
Character(s): Mortimer Quakenbush Bumps
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The Balinoff Case, Part 4

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Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Spy
Character(s): Bart Regan; Sally Norris; VILLAINS: Olga Balinoff and her spy ring; Officer Patrick O'Toole
First Line: You understand?
Synopsis: Regan and Sally are still prisoners of Olga Balinoff. He pushes a flower pot onto the head of Officer O'Toole, who races up the fire escape in time to save Regan from being shot. But he is duped by Olga and allows her and her two cronies to leave. Taking Regan and Sally to the police station, he is bawled out by the commissioner, who tells Regan that the lab have figured out the secret of the mysterious bronze figure.
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The Bloody Will

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Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Mr. Chang
Character(s): Mr. Chang; Joshua McAllister (intro, death); VILLAIN: Agatha (intro, death)
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Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: story in black and white
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The Hollywood Murders

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Genres: mystery
Feature(s): Slam Bradley
Character(s): Slam Bradley; Shorty Morgan; VILLAIN: Terril Desmond (intro)
Synopsis: Slam gets a job as a Hollywood stuntman.
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Pages: 13
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Better Than Ever!

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Feature(s): New Adventure Comics
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside back cover.
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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Johnson Smith & Co.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Back cover.

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