Millennium Edition: Detective Comics 27 #[nn]

(February 2000)

Remembering the Millennium: Detective Comics #27 The Bat-Man Arrives in Gotham City (Table of Contents)

text article / 2 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Robert Greenberger

Letters:

typeset

Indexer Notes

An overview of the context of this issue and the character, and credits on inside of front and inside of back cover.

The Case of the Chemical Syndicate (Table of Contents)

Batman / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Bill Finger

Pencils:

Bob Kane [as Rob't Kane]

Inks:

Bob Kane [as Rob't Kane]

Colors:

?

Letters:

Bob Kane

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Bat-Man [later called Batman, intro], Commissioner Gordon [intro]; Alfred Stryker [villain]

Reprints:

• from Detective Comics (DC, 1937 series) #27 (May 1939)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

Tenderfoot / filler / 0.75 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

Charles Biro?

Pencils:

Charles Biro

Inks:

Charles Biro

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

humor

Reprints:

• from Detective Comics (DC, 1937 series) #27 (May 1939)

Killers of Kurdistan (Table of Contents)

Speed Saunders, Ace Investigator / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Fred Guardineer

Pencils:

Fred Guardineer

Inks:

Fred Guardineer

Colors:

?

Letters:

Fred Guardineer

Content Information

Genre:

detective-mystery

Reprints:

• from Detective Comics (DC, 1937 series) #27 (May 1939)

Bullet Bluff (Table of Contents)

Buck Marshall, Range Detective / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Homer Fleming

Inks:

Homer Fleming

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

western-frontier

Reprints:

• from Detective Comics (DC, 1937 series) #27 (May 1939)

Indexer Notes

Story in black and red only.

[The Mysterious Murders] (Table of Contents)

Spy / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Jerry Siegel

Pencils:

Joe Shuster

Inks:

Joe Shuster

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

adventure

Reprints:

• from Detective Comics (DC, 1937 series) #27 (May 1939)

[Murder on the Oceanic Line Docks] (Table of Contents)

The Crimson Avenger / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Jim Chambers

Pencils:

Jim Chambers

Inks:

Jim Chambers

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Reprints:

• from Detective Comics (DC, 1937 series) #27 (May 1939)

Death on the Airwaves (Table of Contents)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Gardner Fox [as Paul Dean]

Pencils:

?

Inks:

?

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Reprints:

• from Detective Comics (DC, 1937 series) #27 (May 1939)

Indexer Notes

On the lower left of the first page is a small ad for Daisy Air Rifle, and on the lower right of the second page is a small ad for Crowell Publishing company (magazine delivery).

[The New Orleans Mardi Gras Murder Part 1] (Table of Contents)

Bruce Nelson / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Tom Hickey

Pencils:

Tom Hickey

Inks:

Tom Hickey

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

detective-mystery

Reprints:

• from Detective Comics (DC, 1937 series) #27 (May 1939)

Indexer Notes

Story continued in Detective Comics (1937 series) #28.

The Mysterious Doctor Fu Manchu (Table of Contents)

Doctor Fu Manchu / comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Sax Rohmer (original novel); ? (adaptation)

Pencils:

?

Inks:

?

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

adventure

Reprints:

• from Detective Comics (DC, 1937 series) #27 (May 1939)
which is reprinted
• from Fu Manchu (Bell Syndicate), 1931

Indexer Notes

Story continued in Detective Comics (1937 series) #28.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

Flatfoot Flannigan / filler / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

Paul Gustavson

Pencils:

Paul Gustavson

Inks:

Paul Gustavson

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

humor

Reprints:

• from Detective Comics (DC, 1937 series) #27 (May 1939)

[Illegal Aliens] (Table of Contents)

Cosmo, the Phantom of Disguise / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Sven Elven

Pencils:

Sven Elven

Inks:

Sven Elven

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

adventure

Reprints:

• from Detective Comics (DC, 1937 series) #27 (May 1939)

Indexer Notes

Story in black and red only.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

Plain Clothes Pete / filler / 4 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Russell Cole

Pencils:

Russell Cole [as Alger]

Inks:

Russell Cole [as Alger]

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

humor

Reprints:

• from Detective Comics (DC, 1937 series) #27 (May 1939)

[The Murderer on Vacation] (Table of Contents)

Slam Bradley / comic story / 9 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Jerry Siegel

Pencils:

Joe Shuster

Inks:

Joe Shuster

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

detective-mystery

Characters:

Slam Bradley; Shorty

Reprints:

• from Detective Comics (DC, 1937 series) #27 (May 1939)

[House Advertisement] (Table of Contents)

promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Pencils:

?

Inks:

?

Colors:

?

Letters:

typeset

Indexer Notes

House advertisement for: DC Archive Editions. Appears on page 47 in this issue.

[Ads] (Table of Contents)

advertisement / 1.25 pages (report information)

Credits

Pencils:

?

Inks:

?

Colors:

?

Letters:

typeset

Indexer Notes

1 quarter-page original ad reprinted for Rosati Accordions on page 9, and 1 new one-page ad for L2 (clothes, Levis) on the back cover.