Detective Comics #13

(March 1938)

News! (Table of Contents: 1) (Expand) /

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

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

credits, title page / 0.33 page (report information)

Script

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Letters

typeset

Indexer Notes

inside front cover

[The Little Tomm Murder Case] (Table of Contents: 3)

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

Script

Creig Flessel ?

Pencils

Creig Flessel (credited)

Inks

Creig Flessel (credited)

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Letters

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First Line of Dialogue or Text

Get that man! Find him!

Genre

detective-mystery

Characters

Judge Tugg (introduction, villain, death); Little Tomm (introduction, villain); Mulore (introduction, villain); Mike Saro (introduction, villain); Speed Saunders's nephew (introduction); Speed Saunders

Indexer Notes

We formerly credited the script of this story to Gardner Fox, but in an interview in Alter Ego #20 (June 2003), he stated that his first comic story, sold in March 1938, appeared in Detective Comics #18.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 4)

Just Like Junior / cartoon / 1 page (report information)

Script

Stan Asch (credited, signed)

Pencils

Stan Asch (credited, signed)

Inks

Stan Asch (credited, signed)

Colors

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Letters

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First Line of Dialogue or Text

If this medicine is just like candy...

Genre

humor; children

Indexer Notes

Four unrelated gag panels.

[The Jenks Kidnapping Case, Part 2] (Table of Contents: 5)

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

Script

Bill Ely (credited as Will Ely)

Pencils

Bill Ely (credited as Will Ely)

Inks

Bill Ely (credited as Will Ely)

Colors

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Letters

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First Line of Dialogue or Text

Larry, serving as a butler...

Genre

detective-mystery

Characters

Larry Steele; Nancy Jenks; kidnappers (villain)

[The Killer Clown] (Table of Contents: 6)

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

Script

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Pencils

Sven Elven (credited)

Inks

Sven Elven (credited)

Letters

Sven Elven

First Line of Dialogue or Text

The Reynolds' Circus is in town.

Genre

adventure; crime

Characters

Cosmo; Berpo (introduction, villain, death, a clown)

Indexer Notes

story in black and white

Murder in the Clouds, Part II (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)

Colors

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Letters

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First Line of Dialogue or Text

As Ward, the blackmailer...

Genre

detective-mystery

Characters

Bruce Nelson; Harry Ward (villain, death); Clifford

Dental Detective (Table of Contents: 8)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Script

Vin Sullivan (credited as Paul Dean)

Pencils

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Inks

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Colors

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Letters

typeset

Genre

detective-mystery

Indexer Notes

We formerly credited the script of this story to Gardner Fox, but in an interview in Alter Ego #20 (June 2003), he stated that his first comic story, sold in March 1938, appeared in Detective Comics #18.

[The Peter Rawley Case] (Table of Contents: 9)

Spy / comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script

Jerry Siegel (credited as Jerome Siegel)

Pencils

Joe Shuster (credited as Shuster)

Inks

Joe Shuster (credited as Shuster)

Colors

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Letters

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First Line of Dialogue or Text

The son of a prominent American politician...

Genre

adventure

Characters

Peter Rawley (introduction); Bart Regan; Sally Norris

The Pine Road Mystery (Table of Contents: 10)

comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script

Russell Cole

Pencils

Russell Cole

Inks

Russell Cole

Colors

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Letters

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Genre

detective-mystery

Crooked Trail (Table of Contents: 11)

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

Script

Homer Fleming (credited as H. Fleming)

Pencils

Homer Fleming (credited as H. Fleming)

Inks

Homer Fleming (credited as H. Fleming)

Letters

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Genre

detective-mystery; western-frontier

Characters

Buck Marshall; Claw Kembal (introduction, villain)

Indexer Notes

story in black and white

[At Sea] (Table of Contents: 12)

Slam Bradley / comic story / 12.75 pages (report information)

Script

Jerry Siegel (credited as Jerome Siegel)

Pencils

Joe Shuster (credited as Shuster)

Inks

Joe Shuster (credited as Shuster)

Colors

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Letters

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First Line of Dialogue or Text

S-say! If th' tough mugs in there...

Genre

detective-mystery

Characters

a gang of pirates (introduction, villain); Slam Bradley; Shorty Morgan

Indexer Notes

story title from next issue blurb in previous issue

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

The Crowell Publishing Co. / advertisement / 0.25 page (report information)

Lieutenant Alan McLeod Hero of the Air (Table of Contents: 14)

comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script

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Pencils

Bill Ely

Inks

Bill Ely

Letters

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Genre

biography

Characters

Lieutenant Alan McLeod

Indexer Notes

inside back cover

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 15) (Expand) /

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