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17July 1938
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Detective Comics #17

DC · July 1938 · on sale 1938-06-06

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Series
Detective Comics (DC, 1937 series)
Issue
#17
Publication date
July 1938
Key date
1938-07-00
On-sale date
1938-06-06
Indicia publisher
Detective Comics Inc.
Price
$0.10
Pages
68

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Contents

SeqStoryTypePagesCreditsCharacters
0-cover1pencils: Creig Flessel; inks: Creig Flessel
1Swelegant Is the Word for It!promo (ad from the publisher)1pencils: Leo O'Mealia; inks: Leo O'Mealia
2The Snake Deathcomic story6pencils: Fred Guardineer; inks: Fred GuardineerSpeed Saunders
3-comic story1script: Bob Kane; pencils: Bob Kane; inks: Bob KaneOscar the Gumshoe
4The Maine Castle Mystery, Part 1comic story6script: Will Ely; pencils: Will Ely; inks: Will ElyLarry Steele
5Von Ruyter's Explosive Guncomic story6pencils: Sven Elvén; inks: Sven Elvén; letters: Sven ElvenCosmo, the Phantom of Disguise
6The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu, Part 1comic story4script: Leo O'Mealia, Sax Rohmer; pencils: Leo O'Mealia; inks: Leo O'MealiaSir Denis Nayland Smith (introduction); Dr. Petrie (introduction); Dr. Fu Manchu (villain, introduction)
7The Hooded Hordescomic story8script: Jerome Siegel; pencils: Joe Shuster; inks: Joe ShusterSally Norris, Bart Regan
8Disaster on the Diamondtext story2script: Paul Dean; pencils: Fred Guardineer; inks: Fred GuardineerPercy Hamilton; Slugger Brant; Mr. Stone
9The Coolie Smugglers [Part 1]comic story12script: Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson; pencils: Tom Hickey; inks: Tom HickeyBruce Nelson
10The Right Trailcomic story6script: H. Fleming; pencils: H. Fleming; inks: H. FlemingBuck Marshall
11Slam Bradley Gets the Aircomic story13script: Siegel; pencils: Shuster; inks: ShusterSlam Bradley, Shorty Morgan
12-activity1script: A. W. Nugent; pencils: A. W. Nugent; inks: A. W. Nugent

Plus 1 page of advertisements and other matter across 1 sequence, as published.

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