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Issue: Detective Comics #17
Publication Date: July 1938
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Issues: #17 of 883 Issues (1380 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: [no rating]
Publisher: FlagDC
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Detective Comics Inc.
On Sale Date: 06/06/1938
Volume: none
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 14 (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: mystery
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Swelegant Is the Word for It!

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Action Comics
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: inside front cover
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The Snake Death

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: mystery
Feature(s): Speed Saunders
Character(s): Speed Saunders; a spy (introduction, death); Percy (introduction, death); Mr. Horn (introduction); Miss Horn (introduction)
First Line: I have called you in, 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.

Guardineer signs in the final panel.
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Oscar the Gumshoe
Character(s): Oscar the Gumshoe
First Line: Gosh! The Black Mask Gang...
Synopsis: Oscar receives a note telling him of the whereabouts of the Black Hand Gang, notorious bank robbers. He and a squad of police advance on a shack, kick in the door, and find a gang of kids who are amused that the cops have fallen for their prank.
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Pages: 1
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The Maine Castle Mystery, Part 1

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: mystery
Feature(s): Larry Steele, Private Detective
Character(s): Larry Steele; Bill Graham (introduction); Vera Sanders (introduction); The Boss (villain, introduction); his gang (villains, introduction)
First Line: Mr. Steele, there's a Mr. Graham from Hollywood to see you--
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
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Von Ruyter's Explosive Gun

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, mystery
Feature(s): Cosmo, the Phantom of Disguise
Character(s): Cosmo; Von Ruyter (introduction); Countess Varnoff De Mornay (villain, introduction)
First Line: Van Ruyter has, after two years...
Synopsis: Von Ruyter has invented a new form of high explosive gun. Tests for the War Department are spectacular, and they ask permission to install a battery of guns in one of their Pacific possessions. The plans are stolen, however, and his friend Cosmo goes off to investigate, finally uncovering the Russian Countess De Mornay. She gets away with false plans Cosmo has planted. The diagram shows the monkey cage in the Bronx Zoo, and the formula is that for castor oil.
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Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: story in black and white
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The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu, Part 1

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Dr. Fu Manchu
Character(s): Sir Denis Nayland Smith (introduction); Dr. Petrie (introduction); Dr. Fu Manchu (villain, introduction)
First Line: Imagine a man, tall, lean and cat-like...
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Reprint Notes: from Dr. Fu Manchu daily (Bell Syndicate)
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Disclose Notes: Adapted from The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu by Sax Rohmer; also reprinted in Wow -- What a Magazine! (Henle Publications, 1936 series) #1-4.

The daily strip ran in newspapers in 1930 and 1931.
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The Hooded Hordes

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Spy
Character(s): The Hooded Hordes (introduction, villains); Bart Regan; Betsy Norris
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: story title from next issue blurb in previous issue
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Disaster on the Diamond

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Vin Sullivan [as Paul Dean] (credited)
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: sports
Character(s): Percy Hamilton; Slugger Brant; Mr. Stone
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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.
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The Coolie Smugglers [Part 1]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: mystery
Feature(s): Bruce Nelson
Character(s): Bruce Nelson; Captain Carstairs (villain, introduction)
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 12
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The Right Trail

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, western
Feature(s): Buck Marshall, Range Detective
Character(s): Buck Marshall; Speck (villain, introduction)
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: story in black and white
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Slam Bradley Gets the Air

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: mystery
Feature(s): Slam Bradley
Character(s): Slam Bradley; Shorty Morgan; Ramon Gonzales (villain, introduction); Sporty Morgan (Shorty's brother, introduction)
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 13
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[untitled]

Activity  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Detective Puzzles
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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.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: back cover

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