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19September 1938
$0.10

Detective Comics #19

DC · September 1938 · on sale 1938-08-05

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Series
Detective Comics (DC, 1937 series)
Issue
#19
Publication date
September 1938
Key date
1938-09-00
On-sale date
1938-08-05
Indicia publisher
Detective Comics Inc.
Price
$0.10
Pages
68

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Contents

SeqStoryTypePagesCreditsCharacters
0-cover1pencils: Creig Flessel; inks: Creig Flessel
1Action Comics; More Fun Comics; New Adventure Comicspromo (ad from the publisher)1letters: typeset
2The Grogan Casecomic story6script: Gardner Fox; pencils: Fred Guardineer; inks: Fred GuardineerSpeed Saunders
4-cartoon0.67script: Vin SullivanAlphonse Poller
5The Invisibility Formulacomic story6script: George Newman; pencils: George Newman; inks: George NewmanInspector Kent (introduction); Dr. Ronald Wainwright (introduction, death); Wendy Foster (introduction); Henry Adams (introduction); The Raven (introduction, villain); Algy Hawks
6The Island of Wanatoba, Part 1comic story6script: Will Ely; pencils: Will Ely; inks: Will ElyLarry Steele
7Mirror of Doomcomic story8script: Siegel; pencils: Shuster; inks: ShusterSally Norris, Bart Regan
8The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu, Part 3comic story4script: Leo O'Mealia, Sax Rohmer; pencils: Leo O'Mealia; inks: Leo O'MealiaDr. Fu Manchu; Sir Dennis Nayland Smith; Dr. Petrie; Sir Crichton Davey
9A Dead Casetext story2script: Paul Dean; pencils: Fred Guardineer; inks: Fred Guardineer
10The Coolie Smugglers [Part 3]comic story6script: Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson; pencils: Tom Hickey; inks: Tom HickeyBruce Nelson
11The Air Pirates and the S.S. Almoacomic story6pencils: Sven Elvén; inks: Sven Elvén; letters: Sven ElvenCosmo, the Phantom of Disguise
12Luigi Ferrini Strikescomic story6script: Gardner Fox; pencils: Don Lynch; inks: Don LynchSteve Malone
13In Africacomic story13script: Jerome Siegel; pencils: Joe Shuster; inks: Joe ShusterSlam Bradley, Shorty Morgan
14-activity1script: A. W. Nugent; pencils: A. W. Nugent; inks: A. W. Nugent

Plus 1.33 pages of advertisements and other matter across 2 sequences, as published.

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