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3May 1937
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Detective Comics #3

DC · May 1937 · on sale 1937-04-10

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Series
Detective Comics (DC, 1937 series)
Issue
#3
Publication date
May 1937
Key date
1937-05-00
On-sale date
1937-04-10
Indicia publisher
Detective Comics Inc.
Price
$0.10
Pages
68

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Contents

SeqStoryTypePagesCreditsCharacters
0-cover1pencils: Creig Flessel; inks: Creig Flessel
1More Fun Comics; New Adventure Comicspromo (ad from the publisher)0.67colors: ? (red, black & white)
2-credits, title page0.33letters: typeset
3A Stowaway in Needcomic story7script: Creig Flessel; pencils: Fless; inks: FlessSpeed Saunders
4The Air-Mail Mysterycomic story6pencils: Alex Lovy; inks: Alex LovyHope Hazard; Bill Littlejohn (pilot); Xavier, The Master
5The Kidnapping of Angus MacDonaldcomic story6script: Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson; pencils: Sven Elvén; inks: Sven ElvénCosmo, the Phantom of Disguise
6The Claws of the Dragon, Part 3comic story12script: Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson; pencils: Tom Hickey; inks: Tom HickeyBruce Nelson
7Shooting Lessontext story6script: E. R. Anthony; pencils: Creig Flessel; inks: Creig FlesselState Trooper Marden; Doran (Public Enemy Number 1)
8The Wales Casecomic story4script: Alger; pencils: Alger; inks: AlgerElmer Bell; Helen White; Jasper Wales; Grandpa Spears; Col. Aspinwall; Dimwit Bayles
9The Nearly-Wedscomic story4script: Jerome Siegel; pencils: Joe Shuster; inks: Joe ShusterSally Norris, Bart Regan
10Bullets in the Darkcomic story6script: Homer Fleming; pencils: H. Fleming; inks: H. FlemingBuck Marshall
11Slam Delivers the Messagecomic story13script: Jerome Siegel; pencils: Jim Bettersworth; inks: Jim BettersworthSlam Bradley, Shorty Morgan
12Look!promo (ad from the publisher)1pencils: Creig Flessel; inks: Creig Flessel

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

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