Detective Comics #5

(July 1937)

The Comic Headliner! (Table of Contents: 1)

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

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Pencils

Vin Sullivan (signed)

Inks

Vin Sullivan (signed)

Letters

typeset

Indexer Notes

Inside front cover.

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

credits, title page / 0.33 page (report information)

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Letters

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[Undercover in Grade School] (Table of Contents: 3)

Slam Bradley / comic story / 13 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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First Line of Dialogue or Text

If I wasn't so sore at you...

Genre

detective-mystery

Characters

Slam Bradley; Shorty Morgan; Miss Quail; The Blackmoore Gang; Miss Cambel; Muggsy; Slugger

Synopsis

In order to help out Slam's sixth grade teacher, Shorty has to go undercover as a student.

The Path of Thorns (Table of Contents: 4)

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

Script

Homer Fleming (credited as H. Fleming) (signed as H. Fleming)

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Homer Fleming (credited as H. Fleming) (signed as H. Fleming)

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Homer Fleming (credited as H. Fleming) (signed as H. Fleming)

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Genre

adventure; western-frontier

Characters

Buck Marshall; The Sheriff; Jack Darsey; Rancher Warner; Kane (the foreman); Stan Martin

Synopsis

Buck and the Sheriff ride to the Warner Ranch, where Jack Darsey has been robbed of the payroll. They eventually discover that Kane, the foreman (real name Lopez, wanted for bank robbery), was responsible.

The Claws of the Red Dragon [Part 5] (Table of Contents: 5)

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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Bruce Nelson was forced to stand and witness the murder...

Genre

detective-mystery

Characters

Bruce Nelson; Stucchi (villain); Sigrid Von Holtzendorff

Synopsis

Bruce finds Sigrid in a house full of Chinese gangsters but she won't leave until they find her father.

Winged Death (Table of Contents: 6)

text story / 6 pages (report information)

Script

Whitney Ellsworth

Pencils

Creig Flessel (credited, signed)

Inks

Creig Flessel (credited, signed)

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Letters

typeset

Genre

adventure; aviation

Characters

Terry Rutledge; Charles Hilton; Virginia Hilton; Blagg

Indexer Notes

penname identified in Jerry Bails' Who's Who.

The Elm Park Mystery (Table of Contents: 7)

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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First Line of Dialogue or Text

How peaceful!

Genre

detective-mystery

[The Balinoff Case, Part 5] (Table of Contents: 8)

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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An unexpected call...

Genre

adventure; spy

Characters

Bart Regan; Sally Norris; Olga Balinoff; her spy ring

Synopsis

Bart finally confesses to Sally why he tried to break off their relationship. After she helps him capture Olga Balinoff, she applies for a job with the same agency Bart works for.

[The Dope Torpedo] (Table of Contents: 9)

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

Script

Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson ?

Pencils

Sven Elven (credited)

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Sven Elven (credited)

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First Line of Dialogue or Text

We know for a certainty...

Genre

drama; detective-mystery

Characters

Cosmo; Commissioner Stone

Synopsis

Cosmo is asked to investigate the smuggling of dope into the country on the ships of the Largo Line. Disguising himself as a Portuguese sailor, he abducts one of the crew. The first mate, finding himself short of a deck-hand, goes ashore and hires Cosmo. Eventually, Cosmo discovers that the captain and mate are using a torpedo gun to fire metal cylinders of dope onto the New Jersey shore.

[Mystery of the Wholesale Kidnappings, Part 1] (Table of Contents: 10)

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

Script

Bill Ely (credited as Will Georgi)

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Bill Ely (credited as Will Georgi)

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Bill Ely (credited as Will Georgi)

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Larry Steele, young private detective...

Genre

detective-mystery

Characters

Larry Steele (introduction); Mr. Steele (introduction, Larry's father)

[A Most Fishy Robbery] (Table of Contents: 11)

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

Script

Creig Flessel (credited as Fless)

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Creig Flessel (credited as Fless)

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Creig Flessel (credited as Fless)

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First Line of Dialogue or Text

Stick 'em up! Get the payroll, Mike!

Genre

detective-mystery

Characters

Speed Saunders

Synopsis

Speed finds that criminals are smuggling gold inside the bodies of fish.

Reprints

• in Cavalier Comics (A.W. Nugent Publishing Co., 1945 series) #2 [1945] (1945)

Indexer Notes

Flessel said he wrote these in Alter Ego #45 (February 2005).

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 12)

Silly Sleuths / cartoon / 1 page (report information)

Script

Fred Schwab

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Fred Schwab

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Fred Schwab

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First Line of Dialogue or Text

I see you've made a slight error - Clancy...

Genre

humor

Flash! Ask for It by Name! (Table of Contents: 13)

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

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Indexer Notes

Inside back cover.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 14)

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

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Indexer Notes

Back cover.