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Issue Details

Issue #21
Published November 1938
Cover Price 0.10
Pages 68
Editing Vincent Sullivan

Cover Details

Pencils Leo O'Mealia
Inks Leo O'Mealia

6 page Speed Saunders story "The Glass of Poison"

Characters I: Phillippa Rowen (D), Betty Palmer; V: Big Shot Bettini
Genre detective
Script Gardner Fox
Pencils Fred Guardineer
Inks Fred Guardineer
Notes Speed is shown reading DETECTIVE COMICS!

6 page Larry Steele story "The Accident Racket"

Characters V: Tom Hayworth, Dr. Avery, Colby (I for all)
Genre detective
Script Will Ely
Pencils Will Ely
Inks Will Ely

6 page Buck Marshall story "Bullet Trap"

Characters V: Smythe (I)
Script Homer Fleming
Pencils Homer Fleming
Inks Homer Fleming
Notes story in black and white

8 page Spy story "The Affair of Baron Von Muldorf"

Characters V: Baron Von Mundorf, Lorenzo Rica (I for both)
Genre adventure
Script Jerry Siegel
Pencils Joe Shuster
Inks Joe Shuster

4 page Dr. Fu Manchu story "The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu: Part 5"

Genre adventure
Script Sax Rohmer
Pencils Leo O'Mealia
Inks Leo O'Mealia
Letters typeset
Notes strip reprints; adapted from THE INSIDIOUS DR. FU MANCHU by Sax Rohmer

2 page text story "The Crime In Stone"

Script Gardner Fox (Paul Dean)
Letters typeset

6 page Bruce Nelson story "The Song of Death [Part 2]"

Characters V: Mrs. Warren
Genre detective
Script Gardner Fox?
Pencils Tom Hickey
Inks Tom Hickey

6 page Crimson Avenger story "Mystery At the Mt. Pleasant Cemetary"

Characters V: Miller and his gang (I for all)
Genre superhero
Script Jim Chambers?
Pencils Jim Chambers
Inks Jim Chambers

6 page Steve Malone story "The Pigeon Smugglers"

Characters V: The Ferrini gang (I)
Genre detective
Script Gardner Fox

13 page Slam Bradley story "Seth and the Slave Ring"

Characters V: Seth (I, D); I: Lord Atherton, a girl (D)
Genre detective
Script Jerry Siegel
Pencils Joe Shuster
Inks Joe Shuster

1 page Crime Never Pays filler

Notes may be out of order in this book