Detective Comics #5 for Sale - First Appearance of Larry Steele - Where to Buy

Identification plate

Series: Detective Comics (DC, 1937 series)
Issue: #5
Publication date: July 1937
Key date: 1937-07-00
On-sale date: 1937-06-10
Indicia publisher: Detective Comics Inc.
Price: $0.10
Pages: 68

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Why this issue matters

First appearance of Larry Steele - 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	Speed Saunders
1	The Comic Headliner!	promo (ad from the publisher)	0.67	pencils: Vin Sullivan; inks: Vin Sullivan
2	-	credits, title page	0.33	letters: typeset
3	Undercover in Grade School	comic story	13	script: Jerome Siegel; pencils: Joe Shuster; inks: Joe Shuster	Slam Bradley, Shorty Morgan
4	The Path of Thorns	comic story	6	script: H. Fleming; pencils: H. Fleming; inks: H. Fleming	Buck Marshall
5	The Claws of the Red Dragon [Part 5]	comic story	12	script: Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson; pencils: Tom Hickey; inks: Tom Hickey	Bruce Nelson
6	Winged Death	text story	6	script: Fredric Wells; pencils: Creig Flessel; inks: Creig Flessel	Terry Rutledge; Charles Hilton; Virginia Hilton; Blagg
7	The Elm Park Mystery	comic story	4	script: Alger; pencils: Alger; inks: Alger
8	The Balinoff Case, Part 5	comic story	4	script: Jerome Siegel; pencils: Joe Shuster; inks: Joe Shuster	Sally Norris, Bart Regan
9	The Dope Torpedo	comic story	6	script: Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson; pencils: Sven Elvén; inks: Sven Elvén	Cosmo, the Phantom of Disguise
10	Mystery of the Wholesale Kidnappings, Part 1	comic story	6	script: Will Georgi; pencils: Will Georgi; inks: Will Georgi	Larry Steele First
11	A Most Fishy Robbery	comic story	6	script: Fless; pencils: Fless; inks: Fless	Speed Saunders
12	-	cartoon	1	script: Fred Schwab; pencils: Fred Schwab; inks: Fred Schwab
13	Flash! Ask for It by Name!	promo (ad from the publisher)	1	pencils: Creig Flessel; inks: Creig Flessel

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

Where to read it

Collection	Year
Cavalier Comics #2	1945	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

‹ #45 of 883#6 ›

Sources

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

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