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Issue: Detective Comics #9
Publication Date: November 1937
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Issues: #9 of 883 Issues (1409 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: [no rating]
Publisher: FlagDC
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Detective Comics Inc.
On Sale Date: 10/10/1937
Volume: 1
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
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Content Items: 17 (10 stories, 1 cover)
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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
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Subject Matter
Genres: mystery
Feature(s): Speed Saunders
Character(s): Speed Saunders
Synopsis: A police detective is hiding under a dock, with either a body or a suspect.
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Detective Comics

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Pages: 1
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Case of the Hobo Hero

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Genres: mystery
Feature(s): Speed Saunders
Character(s): Speed Saunders; Gloomy Jake Jones (introduction); Mike Molona (introduction, villain); the Mayor (introduction, villain)
First Line: Who is the old gent...
Synopsis: Speed notices how many hobos and derelicts are on the street. He trails one named Gloomy Jake, and sees him get into a car belonging to racketeer Mike Molona. Disguised as a delivery man he knocks at Molona's door, is recognized by the goon who answers, and knocks him out. Putting on a butler's outfit he hides under the table, where he overhears Jake trying to sell missing tax reports to Molona and the Mayor. Speed confronts them, but is shot, The police break in, and Jake is revealed to be an undercover police investigator.
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Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Gardner Fox does not begin writing until issue 18.
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Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Sgt. Simp
First Line: Boy, he's doin' at least sixty!
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Pages: 0.67
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Feature(s): Hohner Harmonicas
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Pages: 0.33
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Mystery of the Wholesale Kidnappings, Part 5

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Genres: crime, mystery
Feature(s): Larry Steele, Private Detective
Character(s): Larry Steele; Dr. Sargoff (introduction, villain); Sonia Sargoff (villain); Dutch (villain); Squinty (villain)
First Line: Larry and G-Man, Hatch...
Synopsis: Larry and Hatch have discovered a basement laboratory and are being held at gunpoint by the doctor's wife. Larry overpowers her and they confront the doctor. He claims he will drain the embalming fluid from the four bodies and restore them to health, but Sonia snatches a gun and again holds them prisoner. A boat filled with G-Men have arrived, and the operation is performed successfully. One of the revived bodies turns out to be that of Larry's missing father. The doctor poisons himself in preference to being taken alive.
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Death in the Radio-Studio

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Genres: mystery
Feature(s): Cosmo, the Phantom of Disguise
Character(s): Cosmo; Brenner; Glasser (introduction, villain); Hal Lane (introduction, death)
Synopsis: Singers over the Federal Broadcasting System are being mysteriously killed. Vice-President Brenner asks Cosmo to look into it. He discovers an elaborate device which releases a poison gas into the faces of the singers as they step up to the microphone. The radio monitor Glasser is revealed to be behind the extortion plot.
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The Blood of the Lotus [Part 1]

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Genres: mystery
Feature(s): Bruce Nelson
Character(s): Bruce Nelson; Sing Lee (introduction); Lois Woodworth (introduction); Donald Barnes (introduction); Philip Pomeroy (introduction, villain)
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Pages: 12
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Death at Latitude 30

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Genres: adventure, drama
Character(s): Jed Johnson; Lola Mendez; Tim O'Connor
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Feature(s): American Flyer Trains
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Pages: 0.16
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The Johnson Mystery

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Genres: mystery
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Pages: 4
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The Vanishing of R-42

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Genres: adventure, espionage
Feature(s): Spy
Character(s): Bart Regan; Sally; Agent R-42 (introduction); Talvanian ambassador (introduction, villain); Talvanian spies (introduction, villain)
First Line: Two days ago...
Synopsis: Bart and Sally are sent to the Talvanian Embassy in order to help Agent R-42. Bart enters under false pretenses, but hides and locates R-42, who is a captive. The ambassadors try to discover where he has hidden some stolen dispatches. Bart is caught and is about to be shot, when Sally sends a gas bomb through the window and saves both Bart and R-42.
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Silver and Lead

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Genres: adventure, western
Feature(s): Buck Marshall, Range Detective
Character(s): Buck Marshall; The Sheriff; Bender (introduction, villain); Latigo (introduction, villain)
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Pages: 6
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The Human Fly

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Genres: adventure, mystery
Feature(s): Slam Bradley
Character(s): Slam Bradley; Shorty; Sgt. Kelly; The Human Fly (introduction, villain); Snoop Dolan (introduction)
First Line: Holy smoke!
Synopsis: Slam demonstrates how a thief might have scaled the outer wall of the skyscraper and stolen jewels from a room on the 14th floor. He later captures "The Human Fly" by pursuing him up the outer wall to the roof.
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Pages: 12.89
Disclose Notes: Story title from next issue blurb in previous issue.

A poster on the wall in panel 21 urges readers to join the Junior Federal Men Club, New Adventure Comics. Federal Men was another of Siegel and Shuster's strips.
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Feature(s): Lionel Trains
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Pages: 0.11
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Better Than Ever!

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Feature(s): More Fun Comics
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Pages: 1
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Feature(s): Johnson Smith & Co.
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Disclose Notes: Back cover.

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