Adventure Comics #33 for Sale - First Appearance of "Biff" Davis - Where to Buy

Identification plate

Series: Adventure Comics (DC, 1938 series)
Issue: #33
Publication date: December 1938
Key date: 1938-12-00
On-sale date: 1938-11-09
Indicia publisher: Detective Comics Inc.
Price: $0.10
Pages: 68

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Why this issue matters

First appearance of "Biff" Davis - the earliest non-flashback appearance on record for this character.

The evidence

Claims here come from the story records for this issue, listed under Sources at the bottom of the file. Character hubs with full evidence tables are coming to this site.

Seq	Story	Type	Pages	Credits	Characters
0	-	cover	1	pencils: Creig Flessel; inks: Creig Flessel
1	Fun Comics; Action Comics; Detective Comics; More	promo (ad from the publisher)	0.7
2	-	credits, title page	0.3	letters: typeset
3	El Diablo, Part 6	comic story	6	script: Fred Guardineer; pencils: Fred Guardineer; inks: Fred Guardineer
4	-	comic story	0.67	script: Stockton; pencils: Stockton; inks: Stockton	Salty Sam (introduction)
6	The Y-Kim	comic story	6	script: Jim Chambers; pencils: Jim Chambers; inks: Jim Chambers	Tom Brent; Fo-Hi (villain, introduction, death)
7	-	comic story	4	script: Jerome Siegel; pencils: Joe Shuster; inks: Joe Shuster	Steve Carson, "Biff" Davis First, Ralph Ventor
8	Thrills You Can Never Forget..	cartoon	1	pencils: Sheldon Moldoff; inks: Sheldon Moldoff	George Furey; Johnny Revolta
9	-	in-house column	0.83	script: ? (in character as Steve Carson); letters: typeset
11	The Plantation Uprising, Part 2	comic story	4	script: Will Ely; pencils: Will Ely; inks: Will Ely
12	-	comic story	1	script: Alger; pencils: Alger; inks: Alger
13	The 11-Year-Old Strong Boy!	cartoon	0.75	pencils: Sheldon Moldoff; inks: Sheldon Moldoff
16	The Masked Man, Part 2	comic story	6	script: Win; pencils: Win; inks: Win
17	In Arabia, Part 1	comic story	2	script: Fred Schwab; pencils: Fred Schwab; inks: Fred Schwab
18	-	cartoon	1	pencils: Sheldon Moldoff; inks: Sheldon Moldoff
19	Many Roumanian Stamps; French Sport Stamp	text article	0.8	letters: typeset
21	Pushing a Baby Carriage	comic story	2	script: Bob Kane; pencils: Bob Kane; inks: Bob Kane
22	-	activity	1
23	Leon Trotsky, Walt Disney, Mary Maguire, Lawrence Tibbett	cartoon	1	pencils: Sheldon Moldoff; inks: Sheldon Moldoff
24	The Lost Gold Mine, Part 5	comic story	2	script: Fred Schwab; pencils: Fred Schwab; inks: Fred Schwab
25	Hot Money [Part 2]	text story	1.85	script: Fredric Wells
27	The God of the Ruby Eye, Part 7	comic story	4	script: Jim Chambers; pencils: Jim Chambers; inks: Jim Chambers
28	Episode 28	comic story	6	script: Tom Hickey; pencils: Tom Hickey; inks: Tom Hickey
29	The Pirate Ship, Part 8	comic story	4	script: Bill Finger; pencils: Bob Kane; inks: Bob Kane	Rusty; The Duchess (villain, introduction)
30	The Lucky Ring	comic story	6	script: Bert Christman; pencils: Spencer Trent; inks: Spencer Trent; letters: Bert Christman
31	-	comic story	1	script: Whitney Ellsworth; pencils: Whitney Ellsworth; inks: Whitney Ellsworth	Billy the Kid

Plus 3.1 pages of advertisements and other matter across 8 sequences, as published.

Where to read it

Collection	Year
All-American Comics [ashcan] #[nn]	1939	On eBay ›

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Before you buy

Golden-age paper is brittle. Ask about page suppleness and check edges for chips in the photos.
Check for trimmed edges, married covers, and clipped coupons - all common on books this old.
Confirm the indicia matches this plate; many golden-age titles changed names mid-run.

Series context

‹ #322 of 472#34 ›

Sources

Grand Comics Database, issue record (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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