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Issue: Detective Comics #16
Publication Date: June 1938
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Issues: #16 of 883 Issues (1409 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: [no rating]
Publisher: FlagDC
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Detective Comics Inc.
On Sale Date: 05/10/1938
Volume: none
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 15 (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
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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[untitled]

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Action Comics
First Line: Flash! Here's a new magazine you can't afford to miss!
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: inside front cover
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The Case of the Missing Corpse

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Inker(s): ? (see notes)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, mystery
Feature(s): Speed Saunders
Character(s): Speed Saunders; Mike Bruno (intro, villain); Miss Bannon; Joseph Bannon (flashback)
First Line: At a lonely cemetary...
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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.

Most of the inking here is of a lighter and more delicate nature than Flessel's usual style.
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Black Tony Barmacino: Dictator of the Dope Dynasty

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Character(s): Black Tony Barmacino
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Compare the art style with the subsequent, signed, story.
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The Plot to Kill Larry Steele, Part 2

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, mystery
Feature(s): Larry Steele
Character(s): Larry Steele; Snow (villain)
First Line: Larry was kidnapped...
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Pages: 6
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The National Museum Mystery

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, mystery
Feature(s): Cosmo, the Phantom of Disguise
Character(s): Cosmo; Korensky (intro, villain)
First Line: Late one night...
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Pages: 6
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Too Many Crooks, Part 3

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, mystery
Feature(s): Bruce Nelson
Character(s): Bruce Nelson; Tony Freeland (intro, villain, death)
First Line: Mr. Parsons and I...
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 12
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The Tattoo Trap

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Character(s): Ken (F.B.I. agent)
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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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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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Pages: 0.25
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A Traitor in Our Midst

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, espionage
Feature(s): Spy
Character(s): Barrow (intro, villain, death); Kleog (intro, villain, death); Mrs. Barrow (intro); Bart Regan; Sally Norris
First Line: Valuable secret orders have been vanishing...
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Pages: 8
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"Fingerprint" Farson, the Plain Clothes Man

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Character(s): "Fingerprint" Farson
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Pages: 4
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Trading Trouble

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, western
Feature(s): Buck Marshall, Range Detective
Character(s): Buck Marshall; Ned Tobin (intro, villain)
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Pages: 6
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The Broadway Bandit

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, mystery
Feature(s): Slam Bradley
Character(s): Slam Bradley; Shorty Rogers; Joan Carter (intro); The Broadway Bandit [Boris Desmond] (intro, villain)
First Line: Help! - Pol --!
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 13
Disclose Notes: story title from next issue blurb in previous issue
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[untitled]

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

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