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Issue: Detective Comics #24
Publication Date: February 1939
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Issues: #24 of 883 Issues (1380 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: [no rating]
Publisher: FlagDC
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Detective Comics Inc.
On Sale Date: 01/05/1939
Volume: 2
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 17 (13 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: On sale date from the publication date and volume number found at the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, New Series, Volume 34, 1939, Number 1. Second class permit. Copyright number 408865.
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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: crime
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Pages: 1
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Tic-Tac-Toe

Story  on  Inside Front Cover (IFC)
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Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Cleo and Clancy
Character(s): Cleo; Clancy
Synopsis: Two uniformed beat officers sneak furtively around the neighborhood until they get to a wooden fence. Creeping behind it they gleefully play games of Tic Tac Toe.
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Pages: 0.75
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The Persian Jewel Mystery

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: mystery
Feature(s): Speed Saunders
Character(s): Speed Saunders; Fence Borden (villain, introduction); Nora Dobson (villain, introduction); Harry Karr (villain, introduction); Syade
Synopsis: The Persian consul is charged with murder and Saunders has to prove his innocence. He uses his scientific detective skills to comb through the evidence.
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Pages: 6
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Oscar the Gumshoe
Character(s): Oscar
First Line: Extra! Gun Moll Escapes
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Pages: 1
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The Model Murder 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; Maurice Du Val (villain, introduction); Maxine Beaumont (introduction, death); Lucille Beaumont (introduction, death); Yvonne Beaumont
First Line: What do you think of this one, Larry?
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Pages: 6
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The Ace Foundry Sabotage

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ? (red tones)
Subject Matter
Genres: mystery
Feature(s): Cosmo, the Phantom of Disguise
Character(s): Cosmo; Radsky (villain, introduction); Gordon; Radsky
First Line: The night shift begins work...
Synopsis: Cosmo investigates sabotage at the Ace Foundry. Meanwhile Radsky agitates for a strike.
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Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: story in red, white, and black

Script previously credited as "Sven Elven ?", but the byline clearly states "Illustrated by Sven Elvin", with no hint of authorship.
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Subterfuge at Sea

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Spy
Character(s): Bart Regan; Sally Norris; Jones (villain, introduction, death); crew of the WHIRLWIND (villains, introduction, death)
First Line: One instant the freighter Gale...
Synopsis: Bart and Sally search for gunrunners aboard a merchant ship.
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Pages: 6
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Dental Work Now Is Almost As Good an Evidence of Identity As Fingerprints!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Don Vincent (signed)
Penciller(s): Don Vincent (signed)
Inker(s): Don Vincent (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: crime, non-fiction
Feature(s): Crime Never Pays
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Pages: 1
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Will Issue Own Stamps

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Stamp Collectors' Corner
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Page includes several small ads from stamps dealers.
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The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu, Part 8

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Dr. Fu Manchu
Character(s): Dr. Fu Manchu; Sir Dennis Nayland Smith; Dr. Petrie
First Line: Nayland Smith dropped cross-legged...
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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.

The strip originally appeared in newspapers in 1930 and 1931.
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The Old Gray House

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: childrens, crime
Character(s): Billy Kane; Joe; Harry (counterfeiter); Chief of Police Higgins
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Pages: 2
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Tony Sparta and the River Gang

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): The Crimson Avenger
Character(s): Crimson Avenger [Hal Travis]; Wing; Tony Sparta (villain, introduction); the River Gang (villains, introduction); Sin Lu (introduction)
First Line: Say, Mac, you got a nice spot here for a slot machine...
Synopsis: The Crimson Avenger tries to break up an insurance racket.
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Pages: 6
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Back from the Dead [Part 1]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: mystery
Feature(s): Bruce Nelson
Character(s): Bruce Nelson; Gentleman Jeff Virdone (villain, introduction); Officer Mears; Officer Grogan; Officer Garrett
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Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Not on Bails' list of Fox stories.
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Trail of Paper

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ? (red tones)
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: western
Feature(s): Buck Marshall, Range Detective
Character(s): Buck Marshall; Gene Carley (villain, introduction); The Sheriff; Miss Dorothy
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Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: story in red, white, and black
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In Two Billion A.D., Part 2

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: mystery
Feature(s): Slam Bradley
Character(s): Slam Bradley; Shorty Morgan; Iron Fingers (villain, introduction); a tyrant (villain, introduction, death); the bird-man (villain, death); the plant-man (villain, death); the orange guy (villain, introduction); Prof. Kenton
First Line: Together with Professor Kenton...
Synopsis: Slam and Shorty are still in 2,000,000,000 A.D., where they encounter a variety of weird foes. Finally they return to 1938, but run when Professor Kenton offers to take them into the past.
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Pages: 13
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[untitled]

Activity  on  Inside Back Cover (IBC)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Detective Puzzles
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Pages: 1
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Advertisement  on  Cover, Back
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Johnson Smith & Co.
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Pages: 1

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