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Issue: Detective Comics #14
Publication Date: April 1938
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Issues: #14 of 883 Issues (1380 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: [no rating]
Publisher: FlagDC
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Detective Comics Inc.
On Sale Date: 03/10/1938
Volume: none
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 16 (12 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Vin Sullivan [as Vincent A. Sullivan]
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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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: mystery
Feature(s): Speed Saunders ?
Character(s): Speed Saunders ?
Synopsis: A policeman is tied up next to a bomb with lit fuse.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Dr. S. G. Boyce

Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: crime, non-fiction
Character(s): Dr. S. G. Boyce
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 0.75
Disclose Notes: inside front cover
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The Mystery of Hondoku Isle

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: mystery
Feature(s): Speed Saunders
Character(s): Malcolm Dane (introduction, villain); Doris Dane (introduction); Dick Dane (introduction); Speed Saunders
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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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Eddie Doll

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
Feature(s): The Law at Work
Character(s): Eddie Doll
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Framing the Framers

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, western
Feature(s): Buck Marshall, Range Detective
Character(s): Jim Foley; Buck Marshall
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: 1st Buck Marshall story in color
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The Jenks Kidnapping Case, Part 3

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: mystery
Feature(s): Larry Steele, Private Detective
Character(s): Nancy Jenks; kidnappers (villain, death); Larry Steele
First Line: What Nancy took for a blackmailing racket...
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Pages: 6
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Too Many Crooks [Part 1]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: mystery
Feature(s): Bruce Nelson
Character(s): Bruce Nelson; Henri Gourmier (introduction); Lloyd Parsons (introduction); Patricia Barden (introduction); Mrs. Jessup; Caulkins (introduction, villain); Strafacchi (introduction, villain)
First Line: In the office of the famous French diamond merchant...
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Pages: 12
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Oil from China

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Vin Sullivan [as Paul Dean]
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1.75
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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[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.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 0.25
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The Black Case

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Letterer(s): ?
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
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The Golden Ray

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Spy
Character(s): Basil Montague (introduction, villain, death); other spies (introduction, villain, death); Bart Regan; Sally Norris
First Line: After a number of exciting adventures...
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Pages: 4
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Hot Trail Hogan

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Pages: 4
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The Poultry Racketeers

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: mystery
Feature(s): Cosmo, the Phantom of Disguise
Character(s): Dirty Joe (introduction, villain); Nick the Plugger (introduction, villain); Lou Capri; Cosmo; Captain Flynn; Patrolman Jim Casey
First Line: It is dusk.
Synopsis: Cosmo sees a man thrown out of a passing car. The body turns out to be Lou Capri, an East Side racketeer.
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Pages: 6
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Up North

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: mystery
Feature(s): Slam Bradley
Character(s): The Boss (introduction, villain, death); Muscles Hogan (introduction, villain, death); Kilo (introduction, villain, death); Jack Trent (introduction); Slam Bradley; Shorty Morgan
First Line: Hey! Wotta we do now?
Synopsis: Shorty and Slam visit Stormhaven Alaska looking for Jack Trent.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 13
Disclose Notes: story title from next issue blurb in previous issue
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Quentin Roosevelt, Heroic Fighter

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: biography, non-fiction
Character(s): Quentin Roosevelt
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: inside back cover
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[untitled]

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Johnson Smith & Co.
Reprinting
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: back cover

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