Detective Comics #12 (1938) for Sale - Where to Buy

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Seq	Story	Type	Pages	Credits	Characters
0	-	cover	1	pencils: Creig Flessel; inks: Creig Flessel
1	News!	promo (ad from the publisher)	0.67	pencils: Vin Sullivan; inks: Vin Sullivan
2	-	credits, title page	0.33	letters: typeset
3	The Indian Oil Well Mystery	comic story	6	script: Creig Flessel; pencils: Creig Flessel; inks: Creig Flessel	Speed Saunders
5	-	cartoon	0.33
6	-	statement of ownership	0.33	script: Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson
7	The Nick Orsatti Case, Part 3	comic story	6	script: Will Ely; pencils: Will Ely; inks: Will Ely	Larry Steele
8	The Jenks Kidnapping Case, Part 1	comic story	6	script: Will Ely; pencils: Will Ely; inks: Will Ely	Larry Steele
9	Murder in the Clouds [Part 1]	comic story	12	script: Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson; pencils: Tom Hickey; inks: Tom Hickey	Bruce Nelson
10	Counterfeit	text story	5.9	script: Vincent Sullivan; pencils: Creig Flessel; inks: Creig Flessel
12	The Adams Case	comic story	4	script: Alger; pencils: Alger; inks: Alger
13	Assassins in the Rue Molin	comic story	4	script: Siegel; pencils: Shuster; inks: Shuster	Sally Norris, Bart Regan
14	The Sabotaged Newspaper	comic story	6	pencils: Sven Elvén; inks: Sven Elvén; letters: Sven Elven	Cosmo, the Phantom of Disguise
15	The Lumberjacks	comic story	13	script: Jerome Siegel; pencils: Joe Shuster; inks: Joe Shuster	Slam Bradley, Shorty Morgan
16	Floyd Stimson Official Parachute Tester	comic story	1	script: Will Ely; pencils: Will Ely; inks: Will Ely	Floyd Stimson

Plus 1.43 pages of advertisements and other matter across 3 sequences, as published.

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