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Issue: Detective Comics #39
Publication Date: May 1940
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Issues: #39 of 883 Issues (1409 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: [no rating]
Publisher: FlagDC
Brand: A DC PublicationView Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: Detective Comics Inc.
On Sale Date: 04/05/1940
Volume: none
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 21 (9 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: On sale date from the publication date found at the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, New Series, Volume 35, 1940, Number 2. Class B periodical. Copyright number B 451428.
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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]

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Colorist(s): ?
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Genres: superhero
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In Content Item: FlagBatman Archives #1 [First Printing] published July 1990
as Cover - Detective Comics #39 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagThe Batman Chronicles #2 published November 2006
as Detective Comics #39 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Redrawn for the cover of Pif-Paf: El Campeón de la Historieta (Editorial Tor, 1939 series) #54.
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Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside front cover.
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The Horde of the Green Dragon!

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Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Henry Crandall (millionaire); John Cobb (millionaire); Cobb's chauffeur (death); Wong (unofficial Mayor of Chinatown, death); The Green Dragon (villains)
Synopsis: The kidnapping of two millionaires and the murder (with a hatchet) of a chauffeur leads the Batman into Chinatown to battle the Green Dragon and their dealings in opium.
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In Content Item: FlagBatman Archives #1 [First Printing] published July 1990
as The Horde of the Green Dragon [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagThe Batman Chronicles #2 published November 2006
as The Horde of the Green Dragon! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagContinuum #4 published March 2008
as The Horde of the Green Dragon [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 12
Disclose Notes: Strip titled in this issue as "The Sensation Adventures of the Batman and Robin, the Boy Wonder." The last panel at the end of ther story touts the next villain for the Batman: Clayface!
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Here It Is!

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Letterer(s): typeset
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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Full page promotional house advertisement, with cover, for Batman #1 (Spring 1940).
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The Chauffeur Spy

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Genres: adventure, espionage
Character(s): Bart Regan
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Pages: 6
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Cobra on the Loose

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Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Red Logan
Character(s): Red Logan
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Pages: 5.5
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Superman Is on the Radio!

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First Line: Sponsored by the makers of Force over the following stations:
Synopsis: The ad promotes 12 stations in California, Connecticut, Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania and Rhode Island airing the Superman radio show, along with times and days, sponsored by Force cereal.
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Pages: 0.5
Disclose Notes: On the bottom of the last page of the preceding story sequence. This ad is similar to the one that ran originally in Action Comics #24 except for a change in sponsor.
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Switch the Switch

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Genres: superhero
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Pages: 6
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Gulliver's Travels, by Jonathon Swift

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Genres: informational, non-fiction
Feature(s): Monthly Book Review
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Pages: 0.5
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How a Brand-New Bike Came to "Newsy" Mike

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Pages: 0.5
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Stamp Items

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Letterer(s): typeset
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Feature(s): Detective Stamp Page
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Page includes many small ads from stamps dealers.
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The Case of the Siva Statue

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Genres: mystery
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Pages: 6
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Morton Hijacking & Co.

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Genres: mystery
Character(s): Steve Malone
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Pages: 6
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Larson's Boy Gets Kidnapped

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Genres: adventure
Character(s): Cliff Crosby
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Pages: 6
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White Trap

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Letterer(s): typeset
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Genres: adventure
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Pages: 1.33
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[untitled]

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Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 0.22
Disclose Notes: A few small ads on the second page of the text story.
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Scrambled Household Words

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Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 0.45
Disclose Notes: On the second page of the text story.
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The French Impersonation

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Genres: mystery
Character(s): Slam Bradley; Shorty Morgan
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Pages: 10
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The "Big Six" Comic Magazines Still Lead the Field!

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Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 1
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[untitled]

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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside back cover.
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[untitled]

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Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Back cover.

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