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Issue: Detective Comics #5
Publication Date: July 1937
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Issues: #5 of 883 Issues (1409 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: [no rating]
Publisher: FlagDC
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Detective Comics Inc.
On Sale Date: 06/10/1937
Volume: 1
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 15 (9 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: The on-sale date is the publication date reported in the U. S. Copyright Office filing.
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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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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: mystery
Feature(s): Speed Saunders
Character(s): Speed Saunders
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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The Comic Headliner!

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): More Fun Comics
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Pages: 0.67
Disclose Notes: Inside front cover.
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[untitled]

Credits  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 0.33
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Undercover in Grade School

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: mystery
Feature(s): Slam Bradley
Character(s): Slam Bradley; Shorty Morgan; Miss Quail; The Blackmoore Gang; Miss Cambel; Muggsy; Slugger
First Line: If I wasn't so sore at you...
Synopsis: In order to help out Slam's sixth grade teacher, Shorty has to go undercover as a student.
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Pages: 13
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The Path of Thorns

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, western
Feature(s): Buck Marshall, Range Detective
Character(s): Buck Marshall; The Sheriff; Jack Darsey; Rancher Warner; Kane (the foreman); Stan Martin
Synopsis: Buck and the Sheriff ride to the Warner Ranch, where Jack Darsey has been robbed of the payroll. They eventually discover that Kane, the foreman (real name Lopez, wanted for bank robbery), was responsible.
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Pages: 6
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The Claws of the Red Dragon [Part 5]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: mystery
Feature(s): Bruce Nelson
Character(s): Bruce Nelson; Stucchi (villain); Sigrid Von Holtzendorff
First Line: Bruce Nelson was forced to stand and witness the murder...
Synopsis: Bruce finds Sigrid in a house full of Chinese gangsters but she won't leave until they find her father.
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Pages: 12
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Winged Death

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, aviation
Character(s): Terry Rutledge; Charles Hilton; Virginia Hilton; Blagg
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Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: penname identified in Jerry Bails' Who's Who.
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The Elm Park Mystery

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: mystery
First Line: How peaceful!
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Pages: 4
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The Balinoff Case, Part 5

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Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, espionage
Feature(s): Spy!
Character(s): Bart Regan; Sally Norris; Olga Balinoff; her spy ring
First Line: An unexpected call...
Synopsis: Bart finally confesses to Sally why he tried to break off their relationship. After she helps him capture Olga Balinoff, she applies for a job with the same agency Bart works for.
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Pages: 4
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The Dope Torpedo

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: drama, mystery
Feature(s): Cosmo, the Phantom of Disguise
Character(s): Cosmo; Commissioner Stone
First Line: We know for a certainty...
Synopsis: Cosmo is asked to investigate the smuggling of dope into the country on the ships of the Largo Line. Disguising himself as a Portuguese sailor, he abducts one of the crew. The first mate, finding himself short of a deck-hand, goes ashore and hires Cosmo. Eventually, Cosmo discovers that the captain and mate are using a torpedo gun to fire metal cylinders of dope onto the New Jersey shore.
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Pages: 6
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Mystery of the Wholesale Kidnappings, Part 1

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: mystery
Feature(s): Larry Steele
Character(s): Larry Steele (introduction); Mr. Steele (introduction, Larry's father)
First Line: Larry Steele, young private detective...
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Pages: 6
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A Most Fishy Robbery

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: mystery
Feature(s): Speed Saunders
Character(s): Speed Saunders
First Line: Stick 'em up! Get the payroll, Mike!
Synopsis: Speed finds that criminals are smuggling gold inside the bodies of fish.
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In Content Item: FlagCavalier Comics #2 [1945] published January 1945
as [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Flessel said he wrote these in Alter Ego #45 (February 2005).
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Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Silly Sleuths
First Line: I see you've made a slight error - Clancy...
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Pages: 1
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Flash! Ask for It by Name!

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): New Adventure Comics
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside back cover.
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Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Johnson Smith & Co.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Back cover.

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