Detective Comics #8

(October 1937)

Detective Comics (Table of Contents: 1)

table of contents / 1 page (report information)

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Indexer Notes

Inside front cover. Includes indicia.

The River Patrol (Table of Contents: 2)

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

Script

Creig Flessel ?

Pencils

Creig Flessel (credited as Fless)

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Creig Flessel (credited as Fless)

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Genre

detective-mystery

Characters

Fred Dunn (introduction); the Skipper (introduction); Speed Saunders; Inspector Moran

Synopsis

Fred Dunn escapes San Sin Jail and Speed is assigned to the case. Both board a passenger ship but Dunn jumps overboard and Speed follows. They are picked up by a fishing boat. The captain refuses to put into shore, so they become crew members for the duration. Dunn saves the skipper from drowning. When they get to New Bedford Speed phones his boss, only to learn that Dunn has been cleared of all charges. Dunn returns to the ship, works hard and eventually becomes skipper of his own ship.

Indexer Notes

Gardner Fox does not begin writing until issue 18.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 3)

The Law Wins / cartoon / 0.67 page (report information)

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When the killer pulls the trigger...

Genre

non-fiction; crime

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Hohner Harmonicas / advertisement / 0.33 page (report information)

[Mystery of the Wholesale Kidnappings, Part 4] (Table of Contents: 5)

Larry Steele, Private Detective / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script

Bill Ely [as Will Ely] (credited)

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Bill Ely [as Will Ely] (credited)

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Bill Ely [as Will Ely] (credited)

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We got ol' man Steele...

Genre

detective-mystery

Characters

Squinty (villain); Dutch; Dr. Sargoff (introduction); Sonia Sargoff (introduction, his wife); Larry Steele; Hatch; Hastings

Synopsis

Larry is working with the F.B.I. to pursue a band of kidnappers. Disguised as a seaman, he meets Hatch, an old friend. Together they reach an old mansion and are amazed to find an operating room in the cellar, with four patients on separate tables. The doctor brags that these four are to be dissected and reassembled in order to create one perfect specimen. Larry and Hatch are discovered by the doctor's wife, who holds them at gunpoint.

[The Disappearance of Carl Huntley] (Table of Contents: 6)

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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The police suspect foul play...

Genre

detective-mystery

Characters

Carl Huntley (introduction); Cosmo

Synopsis

Four bodies have been stolen from various morgues, and Cosmo is called in to help solve the case. He decides to stand vigil in the last morgue to be robbed. During the early hours of the morning the window opens, a man enters and carries out one of the bodies. Cosmo follows to an old farmhouse, and is amazed to find a well-equipped laboratory manned by the supposedly missing scientist Carl Huntley. Cosmo steps out of the shadows and Hartley sets fire to the lab. Cosmo rescues him, later explaining that strain and overwork had snapped Hartley's mind, but that he has been shocked back to sanity.

The Claws of the Red Dragon [Part 8] (Table of Contents: 7)

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

Script

Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson

Pencils

Tom Hickey (credited) (signed as TH)

Inks

Tom Hickey (credited) (signed as TH)

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Genre

detective-mystery

Characters

Lu Gong (villain); Chin Lung (villain); Bruce Nelson; Sigrid Von Holtzendorf; Von Holtzendorf

Indexer Notes

conclusion of serial

The Laughing Mummy (Table of Contents: 8)

text story / 6 pages (report information)

Script

Vin Sullivan [as Paul Dean]

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Creig Flessel (signed)

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Creig Flessel (signed)

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typeset

Genre

detective-mystery

Characters

Pop Regan; Sgt. Brooks; Captain Hammill; Stone

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 9)

Bloodhound Brown / comic story / 4 pages (report information)

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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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They've sent for Bloodhound Brown to work on the Smith case.

Genre

humor; detective-mystery

[The Phony Pierre Blanc] (Table of Contents: 10)

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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U.S. Spy Headquarters...

Genre

adventure; detective-mystery

Characters

Pierre Blanc (introduction); a killer (introduction, villain); Bart Regan; Sally

Synopsis

In Washington, D. C., Sally and Bart are assigned to protect the French Envoy, Pierre Blanc. At his apartment a man answers the door and insists he can take care of himself. Sally and Bart are stubborn and sit themselves down. The man acts suspiciously and a noise is heard from the closet. Blanc is inside tied up and, at gunpoint, the man tells the two agents to join him, so that he can kill them all together. Bart kicks the gun from his hand and the pair overpower him.

Lucky Hunch (Table of Contents: 11)

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

Script

Homer Fleming (credited as H. 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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Genre

adventure; western-frontier

Characters

Morgen (introduction, villain); Buck Marshall; The Sheriff; Rolf ; Berk

Synopsis

Out on the range Buck finds a murdered cowboy belonging to the 2M ranch. Back in town he joins the Sheriff and rides out to the 2M, where the owner, Morgen, claims that his foreman, Rolf, saw rival ranch owner Berk in the vicinity about the time of the murder. They all ride over and Berk, unwilling to be railroaded by Morgen and Rolf, pulls a gun and rides off. They catch up with him and shoot it out, but Buck cleverly arranges for Rolf to confess that Morgen killed his own rider.

[The Hillbillies] (Table of Contents: 12)

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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Put up yore hands, everybody!

Genre

detective-mystery

Characters

Zeke Willis (introduction, villain); Lem (introduction, villain); Lucy-Belle Willis (introduction); the Willises (introduction); the Tollivers (introduction); Slam Bradley; Shorty Morgan

Synopsis

Slam foils a bank robbery, capturing Zeke Willis from the Kentucky Mountains. Willis escapes and Slam and Shorty go in pursuit. They uncover a feud between the Willis and Tolliver clans that has lasted a hundred years.

Indexer Notes

story title from next issue blurb in previous issue

Heigh Yo, Silver! (Table of Contents: 13) (Expand) /

The Lone Ranger Magazine / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

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