Detective Comics #21

(November 1938)

The Glass of Poison (Table of Contents)

Speed Saunders / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Gardner Fox

Pencils:

Fred Guardineer

Inks:

Fred Guardineer

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

detective-mystery

Characters:

Phillippa Rowen (introduction, death); Betty Palmer (introduction); Big Shot Bettini (villain); Speed Saunders

Indexer Notes

Speed is shown reading DETECTIVE COMICS!

[The Accident Racket] (Table of Contents)

Larry Steele / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Will Ely

Pencils:

Will Ely

Inks:

Will Ely

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

detective-mystery

Characters:

Tom Hayworth (introduction, villain); Dr. Avery (introduction, villain); Colby (introduction, villain)

Bullet Trap (Table of Contents)

Buck Marshall / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Homer Fleming

Pencils:

Homer Fleming

Inks:

Homer Fleming

Letters:

?

Content Information

Characters:

V: Smythe (I)

Indexer Notes

story in black and white

[The Affair of Baron Von Muldorf] (Table of Contents)

Spy / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Jerry Siegel

Pencils:

Joe Shuster

Inks:

Joe Shuster

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

adventure

Characters:

Baron Von Mundorf (introduction, villain); Lorenzo Rica (introduction, villain)

[The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu: Part 5] (Table of Contents)

Dr. Fu Manchu / comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Sax Rohmer

Pencils:

Leo O'Mealia

Inks:

Leo O'Mealia

Colors:

?

Letters:

typeset

Content Information

Genre:

adventure

Reprints:

• from ?

Indexer Notes

strip reprints; adapted from THE INSIDIOUS DR. FU MANCHU by Sax Rohmer

The Crime In Stone (Table of Contents)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Gardner Fox [as Paul Dean]

Letters:

typeset

The Song of Death [Part 2] (Table of Contents)

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

Credits

Script:

Gardner Fox ?

Pencils:

Tom Hickey

Inks:

Tom Hickey

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

detective-mystery

Characters:

V: Mrs. Warren

[Mystery At the Mt. Pleasant Cemetary] (Table of Contents)

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

Credits

Script:

Jim Chambers?

Pencils:

Jim Chambers

Inks:

Jim Chambers

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

V: Miller and his gang (I for all)

[The Pigeon Smugglers] (Table of Contents)

Steve Malone / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Gardner Fox

Pencils:

?

Inks:

?

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

detective-mystery

Characters:

V: The Ferrini gang (I)

[Seth and the Slave Ring] (Table of Contents)

Slam Bradley / comic story / 13 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Jerry Siegel

Pencils:

Joe Shuster

Inks:

Joe Shuster

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

detective-mystery

Characters:

Seth (introduction, villain ,death); Lord Atherton (introduction); a girl (introduction, death)

Reprints:

• in Continuum (JMF, 2007 series) #7 (No Date [circa January 2009])

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

Crime Never Pays / filler / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

?

Inks:

?

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Indexer Notes

may be out of order in this book