XOW Logo
  • Location
    • Home
    • Issue Detail, List Content Items
in for
   
by
Facebook Logo
Report a Bug Ask for Support Review Site Apply to be an Editor
Issue: Detective Comics #13
Publication Date: March 1938
Previous Base Issue Previous Issue Variant Next Issue Variant Next Base Issue
 
Disclose Detail
Issues: #13 of 883 Issues (1409 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: [no rating]
Publisher: FlagDC
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Detective Comics Inc.
On Sale Date: 02/10/1938
Volume: none
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 16 (10 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: The on-sale date is the publication date reported in the U. S. Copyright Office filing.
  Does this data need corrections? Become an editor.
Disclose Format
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
Format Notes:  
Disclose Reprinted In0
There is currently no data for this Issue being reprinted anywhere.
Disclose Reprinted From0
There is currently no data for this Issue being reprinted from anywhere.
Disclose Images2
Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
Indicia on this Page
 
 
Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
Indicia on this Page
 
 
Assets1
Indicia
 
 
spacer
Disclose Content Items (16 total)
Disclose Issue Images
[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: mystery
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: As a policeman reaches for his gun, a hand reaches for him from behind.
Disclose
News!

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Inside Front Cover (IFC)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): More Fun Comics
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 0.67
Disclose
[untitled]

Credits  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 0.33
Disclose Notes: inside front cover
Disclose
The Little Tomm Murder Case

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: mystery
Feature(s): Speed Saunders
Character(s): Judge Tugg (introduction, villain, death); Little Tomm (introduction, villain); Mulore (introduction, villain); Mike Saro (introduction, villain); Speed Saunders's nephew (introduction); Speed Saunders
First Line: Get that man! Find him!
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
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.
Disclose
[untitled]

Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: childrens, humorous
Feature(s): Just Like Junior
First Line: If this medicine is just like candy...
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Four unrelated gag panels.
Disclose
The Jenks Kidnapping Case, Part 2

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: mystery
Feature(s): Larry Steele, Private Detective
Character(s): Larry Steele; Nancy Jenks; kidnappers (villain)
First Line: Larry, serving as a butler...
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Disclose
The Killer Clown

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, crime
Feature(s): Cosmo, the Phantom of Disguise
Character(s): Cosmo; Berpo (introduction, villain, death, a clown)
First Line: The Reynolds' Circus is in town.
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: story in black and white
Disclose
Murder in the Clouds, Part II

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: mystery
Feature(s): Bruce Nelson
Character(s): Bruce Nelson; Harry Ward (villain, death); Clifford
First Line: As Ward, the blackmailer...
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 12
Disclose
Dental Detective

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: mystery
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
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.
Disclose
The Peter Rawley Case

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Spy
Character(s): Peter Rawley (introduction); Bart Regan; Sally Norris
First Line: The son of a prominent American politician...
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Disclose
The Pine Road Mystery

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: mystery
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Disclose
Crooked Trail

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: mystery, western
Feature(s): Buck Marshall, Range Detective
Character(s): Buck Marshall; Claw Kembal (introduction, villain)
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: story in black and white
Disclose
At Sea

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: mystery
Feature(s): Slam Bradley
Character(s): a gang of pirates (introduction, villain); Slam Bradley; Shorty Morgan
First Line: S-say! If th' tough mugs in there...
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 12.75
Disclose Notes: story title from next issue blurb in previous issue
Disclose
[untitled]

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): The Crowell Publishing Co.
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 0.25
Disclose
Lieutenant Alan McLeod Hero of the Air

Story  on  Inside Back Cover (IBC)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: biography
Character(s): Lieutenant Alan McLeod
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose
[untitled]

Advertisement  on  Cover, Back
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Johnson Smith & Co.
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1

Site designed and hosted by XOWTech, Inc..
Any questions or problems with this site should be directed to REMOVE-webmaestro-THESE@xowcomics.com.

XOW, XOWComics.com, XOWTech and XOWTech.com are registered trademarks of XOWTech, Inc.
© XOWTech, Inc., 2010 - 2025. All rights reserved.

Some data courtesy of the Grand Comics Database under a Creative Commons Attribution license.