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Issue: Detective Comics #25
Publication Date: March 1939
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Issues: #25 of 883 Issues (1380 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: [no rating]
Publisher: FlagDC
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Detective Comics Inc.
On Sale Date: 02/08/1939
Volume: 2
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 18 (12 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: On sale date from the publication date and the volume number found at the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, New Series, Volume 34, 1939, Number 1. Second class permit. Copyright number 408290.
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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
Format Notes:  
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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
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Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: mystery
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Activity  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Detective Puzzles
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside front cover.
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The Death Sled

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
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Subject Matter
Genres: mystery
Feature(s): Speed Saunders
Character(s): Speed Saunders; Jameson (villain, introduction); Tommy Dell (introduction, dies); Miss Evarts
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
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Auto Tire's "Fingerprints"!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: non-fiction
Feature(s): Crime Never Pays
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 0.5
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Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): The Crowell Publishing Co.
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Pages: 0.5
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The Model Murder Mystery, Part 2

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: mystery
Feature(s): Larry Steele, Private Detective
Character(s): Larry Steele; Maurice Du Val (villain); Yvonne Beaumont (guest)
First Line: Larry is searching Du Val's studio...
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Pages: 6
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Death Masquerades

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; Lute Martin (dead body); The Sheriff; John Whatley
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: story in red, white, and black
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The President's Assignment

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; Franklin D. Roosevelt (guest); Gregor (villain, introduction); Nanette (villain, introduction); another spy (villain, introduction)
First Line: Will you please don these blindfolds?
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Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Paul Cassidy commented that Siegel and Shuster left both himself and Wayne Boring to their own devices, with no interference in what they drew.
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Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Oscar the Gumshoe
Character(s): Oscar Zilch; Officer Clancy; Officer O'Brian
First Line: Whassa matter - You cops all eata up my bananas...
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Pages: 1
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Sculptor Honored

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
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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 9

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Dr. Fu Manchu
Character(s): Dr. Fu Manchu; Dr. Petrie; Sir Dennis Nayland Smith; Rev. J D. Eltham; Greba Eltham
First Line: The glow of the flames grew brighter...
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Reprint Notes: from Dr. Fu Manchu daily (Bell Syndicate)
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Pages: 4
Disclose Notes: Adapted from The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu by Sax Rohmer.

The strip appeared in newspapers in 1930 and 1931.
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Secret Service Man

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Gardner Fox [as Paul Dean]
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 2
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The Airline Insurance Murders

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): The Crimson Avenger
Character(s): The Crimson Avenger [Lee Travis]; Wing; H. A. Powers (villain, introduction); Jenks (butler)
First Line: In both cases the pilots bailed out...
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Pages: 6
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Back from the Dead [Part 2]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: mystery
Feature(s): Bruce Nelson
Character(s): Bruce Nelson; Jeff Virdone
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Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Not on Bails' list of Fox stories
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Ma Pierce's Last Kidnapping

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ? (red tones)
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Cosmo, the Phantom of Disguise
Character(s): Cosmo; Ma Pierce (villain, introduction); her gang (villains, introduction); Reginald Barbart (introduction); his family (introduction)
First Line: About to enjoy a quiet evening at home...
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Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: story in red, white, and black
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The Merrivale Mystery

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: mystery
Feature(s): Slam Bradley
Character(s): Slam Bradley; Shorty Martin; A registrar (villain, introduction)
First Line: This beats usin' a punchin' bag, anytime!
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Pages: 13
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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): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Johnson Smith & Co.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Back cover.

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