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Issue: Detective Comics #7
Publication Date: September 1937
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Issues: #7 of 883 Issues (1380 Printings)
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Rating: [no rating]
Publisher: FlagDC
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Detective Comics Inc.
On Sale Date: 08/10/1937
Volume: 1
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
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Content Items: 14 (10 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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Genres: crime
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Detective Comics

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In Atlantic City

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Genres: mystery
Feature(s): Slam Bradley
Character(s): The "Undersea Killer"; Ethel Mann; Slam Bradley; Shorty Morgan
First Line: Boy! I didn't know this life-saving racket was so much fun!
Synopsis: Slam gets a telegram asking him to fly to Atlantic City immediately. On arrival Slim and Shorty discover that the man who sent the telegram has just drowned, so to investigate disguise themselves as life guards. He saves Ethel Mann from drowning, and later gets a message asking if they can meet. She claims to be a excellent swimmer, but claims to have been pulled underwater by a pair of non-human arms. Shorty gets pulled into the sea by a mysterious inhuman figure, but Slam saves him. Later, when saving Ethel yet again, the "creature" is revealed to be merely a man in a diving suit.
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Pages: 13
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The Premonition of Emil Rogello

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Genres: mystery
Feature(s): Cosmo, the Phantom of Disguise
Character(s): Emilio Rogello; Leon Petrokoff; Cosmo; Luigi
First Line: Cosmo sits at home reading...
Synopsis: Cosmo gets a call from his friend Emilio, who has had a premonition of danger. When he gets to the apartment, Cosmo finds Emilio has been murdered. Disguising himself as his dead friend, a knife is thrown at him, but he has seen the would-be assassin's reflection and ducked. The killer is revealed to be Leon Petrokoff, recently released from an insane asylum.
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The Claws of the Red Dragon

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Genres: mystery
Feature(s): Bruce Nelson
Character(s): Chin Lung; Lu Gong; Stucchi; Bruce Nelson; Sigrid von Holtzendorf; Von Holtzendorf (Sigrid's father)
First Line: A band of murderous Chinese...
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Rifles on the River

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Genres: adventure
Character(s): Kit Walker; Biff Davis
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The Mystery Play

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Genres: mystery
Feature(s): Gumshoe Gus
Character(s): Augustus "Gumshoe Gus" Gimlet; Mrs. Julia Gottbucks
First Line: Gus - Mrs, Gottbucks, the society woman...
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The Colossus Disaster

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Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Spy
Character(s): Hanson; Bart Regan; Sally
First Line: Bart, I want you and Sally...
Synopsis: Bart and Sally are sent to investigate whether or not the dirigible "Colossus" was deliberately sabotaged.
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A Report -- in Detail

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Genres: western
Feature(s): Buck Marshall, Range Detective
Character(s): Ben Elin; Buck Marshall; Jim Holt; The Sheriff
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Mystery of the Wholesale Kidnappings, Part 3

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Genres: mystery
Feature(s): Larry Steele, Private Detective
Character(s): Squinty; Dutch; Mrs. Steele (Larry's mother); Larry Steele
First Line: A number of celebrities have disappeared...
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At the Rodeo

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Genres: mystery
Feature(s): Speed Saunders
Character(s): Tex Dallas; an unnamed gunman; Speed Saunders
Synopsis: A champion bronc rider is shot from his horse at a rodeo. Speed is in the audience, and enters the same event, when he is also shot at. Fortunately, he was thrown from the bronc just before impact. The killer is revealed to be a rider who was sacked from the rodeo, and who was trying to close up the show.
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Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Silly Sleuths
First Line: What's the idea of the cheese and the trap?
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Feature(s): Detective Comics
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Feature(s): Johnson Smith & Co.
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Disclose Notes: Back cover.

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