Detective Comics #3

(May 1937)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 1)

promo (ad from the publisher) / 0.67 page (report information)

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In all my years of detective work...

Indexer Notes

Inside front cover.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 2)

credits, title page / 0.33 page (report information)

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Inside front cover.

[A Stowaway in Need] (Table of Contents: 3)

Speed Saunders / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script

Creig Flessel ?

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Creig Flessel (credited as Fless) (signed as Creig Flessel)

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Creig Flessel (credited as Fless) (signed as Creig Flessel)

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Down at the waterfront...

Genre

adventure; detective-mystery

Characters

Speed Saunders; "Spider" Liverman (villain); Lora

Synopsis

Speed hires a sloop to go on vacation, but out on the sound finds he has a female stowaway. She is Lora, who has escaped from the clutches of "Spider" Liverman with plans for a typewriter invented by her late brother. Liverman and his two henchmen intercept the boat and smash it. Speed and Lora are captured, but Speed fools the thugs into thinking the boat is sinking. They cast off in a row boat and Speed replaces the plug he had pulled out. They catch up with the crooks and Speed overcomes them.

Reprints

• in Mirim (Grande Consórcio Suplementos Nacionais, 1937 series) #5 (11 junho 1937)

The Air-Mail Mystery (Table of Contents: 4)

Hope Hazard G-Woman / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

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Alex Lovy (credited, signed)

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Alex Lovy (credited, signed)

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Well, here I am!

Genre

adventure

Characters

Hope Hazard; Bill Littlejohn (pilot); Xavier, The Master

Synopsis

Hope is called in to investigate the mysterious disappearance of three planes. She boards the next flight out, and, when over the mountains, the motor cuts out. After a rough landing she and the pilot are met by men with guns, the leader of whom tells how he used his Z Ray to cripple the planes. In a bend of the mountain ledge, Littlejohn attacks the leader, and Hope grabs the gun and holds the others at bay. Going through a tunnel, they come out above a cavern with men standing around the Master. Littlejohn wants to escape but Hope insists they find and destroy the Z Ray

[The Kidnapping of Angus MacDonald] (Table of Contents: 5)

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

Script

Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson ?

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Sven Elven (credited)

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Sven Elven (credited)

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In the wealthy section of a big seaport city...

Genre

adventure; detective-mystery

Characters

Cosmo; Angus MacDonald; Ethel MacDonald; Louie; Roxton (villain)

Synopsis

As Angus MacDonald, President of the Two Star Steamship Company, is leaving to give a speech to a board meeting, he is abducted by rough looking thugs. Mrs. MacDonald calls Cosmo, famous detective and friend of the family, and he has her postpone the meeting until that afternoon. Cosmo appears in the guise of MacDonald, and one board member is visibly shocked. Cosmo forces him to tell the location of the real MacDonald and reveals a plot by the Seamen's Union to prevent MacDonald from giving his speech.

Reprints

• in Mirim (Grande Consórcio Suplementos Nacionais, 1937 series) #6 (junho 1937)

The Claws of the Dragon, Part 3 (Table of Contents: 6)

Bruce Nelson / comic story / 12 pages (report information)

Script

Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson

Pencils

Tom Hickey (credited, signed)

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Tom Hickey (credited, signed)

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It is time that we remove him...

Genre

detective-mystery; adventure

Characters

Bruce Nelson; Sigrid Von Holtzendorf; Hong Ah Kay; Sing Dock; Officer Mulrooney; Joe Stucchi; Tom Lee

Synopsis

A bloody Tong war is raging in New York's Chinatown district. On Long Island, Bruce Nelson is held at gunpoint by Joe Stucchi. Nelson overcomes him and hides when he hears the sound of approaching men. Five Asians with long knifes are looking for him. He hides in the roof beams of the summer house and overcomes one of the thugs. A scream from the house sends the others in that direction, and, when Bruce follows, he sees member of the Tong standing over the assassin, Tom Lee. Sigrid's father, Von Holtzendorf, arrives and is clearly in cahoots with the Tong.

Shooting Lesson (Table of Contents: 7)

text story / 6 pages (report information)

Script

E. R. Anthony (credited as Capt. E. R. Anthony)

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Creig Flessel (credited, signed)

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Creig Flessel (credited, signed)

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As the powerful black sedan careened...

Genre

adventure

Characters

State Trooper Marden; Doran (Public Enemy Number 1)

The Wales Case (Table of Contents: 8)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script

Russell Cole (credited as Alger)

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Russell Cole (credited as Alger)

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Russell Cole (credited as Alger)

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To Dingtown came...

Genre

humor

Characters

Elmer Bell; Helen White; Jasper Wales; Grandpa Spears; Col. Aspinwall; Dimwit Bayles

Synopsis

Elmer Bell shoots Jasper Wales but has an iron-clad alibi. After fifty witnesses identify him in court it transpires that he has a twin brother.

[The Nearly-Weds] (Table of Contents: 9)

Spy / comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script

Jerry Siegel (credited as Jerome Siegel)

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Joe Shuster (credited)

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Joe Shuster (credited)

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Do you, Philip Marsden...

Genre

adventure; spy; detective-mystery

Characters

Philip Marsden; Sally; Bart Regan; Olga Balinoff (villain)

Synopsis

Olga Balinoff is still after the stolen bronze figure, and abducts Sally at her nuptials, knowing that ex-G.I. agent Regan will try to save her.

Bullets in the Dark (Table of Contents: 10)

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

Script

Homer Fleming ?

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Homer Fleming (credited as H. Fleming)

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Homer Fleming (credited as H. Fleming)

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After a long day's ride...

Genre

adventure; western-frontier

Characters

Buck Marshall; Bull Leary; Jim Slade

Synopsis

Buck arrests Leary and takes him to the sheriff. Returning to the line shack he is himself captured by ranch foreman Slade, who also brings him to the sheriff, charging him with being one of the rustlers. Leary, in one of the cells accuses Slade of hiring him to rustle cattle.

Reprints

• in Mirim (Grande Consórcio Suplementos Nacionais, 1937 series) #9 (julho 1937)

[Slam Delivers the Message] (Table of Contents: 11)

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

Script

Jerry Siegel (credited as Jerome Siegel)

Pencils

Jim Bettersworth (credited) (signed as Bettersworth)

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Jim Bettersworth (credited) (signed as Bettersworth)

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Sighting a group of hoodlums...

Genre

detective-mystery

Characters

Slam Bradley; Shorty; D'arcy (villain); Purnelli (villain)

Synopsis

Slam and Shorty get caught in the middle of a double-cross.

Reprints

• in Mirim (Grande Consórcio Suplementos Nacionais, 1937 series) #7 (junho 1937)

Indexer Notes

Bettersworth signs on both the first and final pages.

Look! (Table of Contents: 12)

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

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Creig Flessel

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Creig Flessel

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Indexer Notes

Inside back cover.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 13)

Johnson Smith & Co. / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

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Back cover.