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Issue: Detective Comics #12
Publication Date: February 1938
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Issues: #12 of 883 Issues (1409 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: [no rating]
Publisher: FlagDC
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Detective Comics Inc.
On Sale Date: 01/10/1938
Volume: none
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 17 (10 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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Assets2
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Statement of Ownership
 
 
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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
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Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
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Pages: 1
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News!

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
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Penciller(s): ?
Inker(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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Credits  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 0.33
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The Indian Oil Well Mystery

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, mystery
Feature(s): Speed Saunders
Character(s): Speed Saunders; Objaw-wa Indians (villains)
First Line: A dust-covered roadster...
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: We formerly credited the script of this story to Gardner Fox, but in an interview in Alter Ego #20 (June 2003), he stated that his first comic story, sold in March 1938, appeared in Detective Comics #18.
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Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): The Crowell Publishing Co.
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Pages: 0.33
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Genres: non-fiction
First Line: The men of the F.B.I. (Federal Bureau of Investigation)...
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Pages: 0.33
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Statement of Ownership  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: informational
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Pages: 0.33
Disclose Notes: Publisher: Detective Comics Inc
432 Fourth Ave
New York, NY
Editor Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson
Business Manager J. S. Liebowitz 114 E 47th St, New York , NY
Owners: Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson, J.S. Liebowitz
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The Nick Orsatti Case, Part 3

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: mystery
Feature(s): Larry Steele
Character(s): Larry Steele; Nick Orsatti (villain)
First Line: Larry makes a nocturnal inspection...
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Pages: 6
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The Jenks Kidnapping Case, Part 1

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: mystery
Feature(s): Larry Steele
Character(s): Larry Steele; Nancy Jenks (introduction); Mr. Jenks; a gang of kidnappers (villains)
First Line: A week later, Larry is discharged from his sick bed...
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Pages: 6
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Murder in the Clouds [Part 1]

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Subject Matter
Genres: mystery
Feature(s): Bruce Nelson
Character(s): Bruce Nelson; Harry Ward (villain, introduction); Clifford (villain, introduction)
First Line: A huge, low-winged monoplane...
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Pages: 12
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Counterfeit

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, mystery
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Pages: 6
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The Adams Case

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Pages: 4
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Assassins in the Rue Molin

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Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, espionage
Feature(s): Spy
Character(s): Rene D'Arnot (introduction, villain, death); Bart Regan; Sally Norris; unnamed spies (introduction, villain)
First Line: Upon their first day in Paris...
Synopsis: Rene D'Arnot is killed by Bart Regan.
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Pages: 4
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The Sabotaged Newspaper

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: mystery
Feature(s): Cosmo, the Phantom of Disguise
Character(s): Cosmo; Coronel (introduction); Col. Jefferson Towne (introduction); Henry Braddock (villain, introduction)
First Line: They seem to stand better than a fair chance...
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Pages: 6
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The Lumberjacks

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Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, mystery
Feature(s): Slam Bradley
Character(s): Slam Bradley; Shorty Morgan; Pierre (introduction); Niles Hogarth (villain, introduction)
First Line: Look out, Shorty...
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Pages: 13
Disclose Notes: Story title taken from next issue blurb in previous issue.
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Floyd Stimson Official Parachute Tester

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, non-fiction
Character(s): Floyd Stimson
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: inside back cover
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Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
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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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