Adventure Comics
#37
(April 1939)
DC,
1938 Series
- Volume
- [4]
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 68
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1939-03-10
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Detective Comics Inc.
- Editing
- Vin Sullivan
Issue Notes
On sale date from the publication date and volume number from the volume number reported in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, New Series, Volume 34, 1939, Number 2. Second class permit. Copyright number B 408862.
[no title indexed]
cover / 1 page
- Genre
- jungle
- Synopsis
- Hunter shooting hippo in the mouth.
- Reprints
-
in Double Action Comics (DC, 1940 series) #2 (January 1940) [cover] which is reprinted
-
Indexer Notes
Flanagan art credits confirmed by Scott Bonagofsky from discussions with Creig Flessel, who we previously credited with the cover art.
[Fang Gow of China, Part 35]
Barry O'Neill / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- adventure
- Characters
- Fang Gow (villain)
[no title indexed]
Shorty / comic story / 0.75 page
- Script
- Fred Schwab
- Pencils
- Fred Schwab (signed)
- Inks
- Fred Schwab (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Durf!
- Genre
- humor; anthropomorphic-funny animals
- Characters
- Shorty (a dachshund)
The White Witch
Cotton Carver / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- adventure
- Characters
- Volor (guest, introduction); Queen Kothe (villain, introduction); the Reed Men (introduction)
[On the Wrong Side of the Law, Part 6]
Federal Men / comic story / 4 pages
- Script
- Jerry Siegel
- Pencils
- Siegel and Shuster Studio (as Shuster Shop)
- Inks
- Siegel and Shuster Studio (as Shuster Shop)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- detective-mystery; crime
Pacific Island Stamps
The Stamp Mart / text article / 1 page
Indexer Notes
Page includes many small ads from stamps dealers.
[The God of the Ruby Eye, Part 11]
Tod Hunter / comic story / 4 pages
- Script
- Jim Chambers
- Pencils
- Jim Chambers
- Inks
- Jim Chambers
- Colors
- ? (red tones)
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- adventure
- Characters
- Dante (villain); Tamir (villain)
Indexer Notes
first two pages in black, white, and red; last two pages in black and white
[The Plantation Uprising, Part 6]
Dale Daring / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- adventure
Indexer Notes
Last appearance. Story in black and white, except for feature logo in red tones.
[no title indexed]
Goofo the Great / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Quick, officer! There's trouble back here!
- Genre
- humor
[Betty Furness, Errol Flynn, Dick Powell, Boris Karloff]
Star-Light / cartoon / 1 page
- Genre
- biography
- Characters
- Betty Furness; Errol Flynn; Boris Karloff; Dick Powell
Hidden Paradise [Part 2]
Captain Desmo / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- adventure
Indexer Notes
Story in black and white, except for logo feature panel in red tones.
[The Missionary's Daughter]
Tom Brent / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- adventure
Indexer Notes
Story in black and white, except for feature logo panel in red tones.
[The Count and the Countess]
Skip Schuyler / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- adventure
- Characters
- Skip Schuyler (introduction); Count Sarnousky (villain, introduction); the Countess [Hedi Lasky] (villain, introduction); Ian Murray; Doris Murray
- Synopsis
- Ian and Doris from the Golden Dragon hand off the feature to Skip Schuyler.
Indexer Notes
continued in part from Golden Dragon story last issue
[The Pirate Ship, Part 12]
Rusty and His Pals / comic story / 4 pages
- Genre
- adventure; children
- Characters
- Ichabod Slade (villain); Rusty; Steve; Alfred Forrest
- Synopsis
- Alfred pretends to be a ghost to frighten Slade.
[El Diablo, Part 10]
Anchors Aweigh! / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- adventure; military
- Characters
- El Diablo (villain)
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
[no title indexed]
-
1.
[no title indexed]
Johnson Smith & Co. -
2.
[Fang Gow of China, Part 35]
Barry O'Neill -
3.
["Durf!"]
Shorty -
4.
[no title indexed]
Rosati Accordions -
5.
The White Witch
Cotton Carver -
6.
[On the Wrong Side of the Law, Part 6]
Federal Men -
7.
[no title indexed]
Junior Federal Men Club -
8.
Pacific Island Stamps
The Stamp Mart -
9.
[The God of the Ruby Eye, Part 11]
Tod Hunter -
10.
[A Playboy in King Arthur's Court, Part 1]
Don Coyote -
11.
[The Plantation Uprising, Part 6]
Dale Daring -
12.
["Quick, officer! There's trouble back here!"]
Goofo the Great -
13.
[Betty Furness, Errol Flynn, Dick Powell, Boris Karloff]
Star-Light -
14.
Hidden Paradise [Part 2]
Captain Desmo -
15.
Gunrunner
-
16.
[The Missionary's Daughter]
Tom Brent -
17.
[The Count and the Countess]
Skip Schuyler -
18.
[The Pirate Ship, Part 12]
Rusty and His Pals -
19.
[El Diablo, Part 10]
Anchors Aweigh! -
20.
["At last something new and different in comic magazines..."]
Movie Comics; All-American Comics -
21.
[no title indexed]
Remington Rand -
22.
[no title indexed]
Johnson Smith & Co.
This issue was modified by, among others
- Katie
- Ray Bottorff Jr
- John Censullo
- Bob Hughes
- Donald Dale Milne
- Daniel Thingvold
- Jim Van Dore
All portions of the Grand Comics Database™, except where noted otherwise, are
copyrighted by the GCD and are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-SA 4.0). This includes but is not necessarily limited to our database schema and data distribution format.