Detective Comics #14

(April 1938)

Dr. S. G. Boyce (Table of Contents: 1)

cartoon / 0.75 page (report information)

Script

Gill Fox ?

Pencils

Gill Fox (signed)

Inks

Gill Fox (signed)

Letters

?

Genre

non-fiction; crime

Characters

Dr. S. G. Boyce

Indexer Notes

inside front cover

The Mystery of Hondoku Isle (Table of Contents: 2)

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

Script

Creig Flessel ?

Pencils

Creig Flessel (credited)

Inks

Creig Flessel (credited)

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

adventure; detective-mystery

Characters

Malcolm Dane (introduction, villain); Doris Dane (introduction); Dick Dane (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.

Eddie Doll (Table of Contents: 3)

The Law at Work / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script

Bill Ely (signed)

Pencils

Bill Ely (signed)

Inks

Bill Ely (signed)

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

crime

Characters

Eddie Doll

Framing the Framers (Table of Contents: 4)

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)

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

adventure; western-frontier

Characters

Jim Foley; Buck Marshall

Indexer Notes

1st Buck Marshall story in color

[The Jenks Kidnapping Case, Part 3] (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)

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

What Nancy took for a blackmailing racket...

Genre

detective-mystery

Characters

Nancy Jenks; kidnappers (villain, death); Larry Steele

Too Many Crooks [Part 1] (Table of Contents: 6)

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

Script

Tom Hickey ?

Pencils

Tom Hickey (credited) (signed as TH)

Inks

Tom Hickey (credited) (signed as TH)

Colors

?

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

In the office of the famous French diamond merchant...

Genre

detective-mystery

Characters

Bruce Nelson; Henri Gourmier (introduction); Lloyd Parsons (introduction); Patricia Barden (introduction); Mrs. Jessup; Caulkins (introduction, villain); Strafacchi (introduction, villain)

Oil from China (Table of Contents: 7)

text story / 1.75 pages (report information)

Script

Vin Sullivan

Pencils

Creig Flessel (signed)

Inks

Creig Flessel (signed)

Colors

?

Letters

typeset

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: 8) (Expand) /

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

The Black Case (Table of Contents: 9)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script

Russell Cole

Pencils

Russell Cole

Inks

Russell Cole

Colors

?

Letters

?

[The Golden Ray] (Table of Contents: 10)

Spy / comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script

Jerry Siegel (credited as Siegel)

Pencils

Joe Shuster (credited as Shuster)

Inks

Joe Shuster (credited as Shuster)

Colors

?

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

After a number of exciting adventures...

Genre

adventure; spy

Characters

Basil Montague (introduction, villain, death); other spies (introduction, villain, death); Bart Regan; Sally Norris

Hot Trail Hogan (Table of Contents: 11)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script

Russell Cole

Pencils

Russell Cole

Inks

Russell Cole

Colors

?

Letters

?

[The Poultry Racketeers] (Table of Contents: 12)

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

Script

Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson

Pencils

Sven Elven (credited)

Inks

Sven Elven (credited)

Colors

?

Letters

Sven Elven

First Line of Dialogue or Text

It is dusk.

Genre

adventure; detective-mystery

Characters

Dirty Joe (introduction, villain); Nick the Plugger (introduction, villain); Lou Capri; Cosmo; Captain Flynn; Patrolman Jim Casey

Synopsis

Cosmo sees a man thrown out of a passing car. The body turns out to be Lou Capri, an East Side racketeer.

[Up North] (Table of Contents: 13)

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

Script

Jerry Siegel (credited as Jerome Siegel)

Pencils

Joe Shuster (credited as Shuster)

Inks

Joe Shuster (credited as Shuster)

Colors

?

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Hey! Wotta we do now?

Genre

adventure; detective-mystery

Characters

The Boss (introduction, villain, death); Muscles Hogan (introduction, villain, death); Kilo (introduction, villain, death); Jack Trent (introduction); Slam Bradley; Shorty Morgan

Synopsis

Shorty and Slam visit Stormhaven Alaska looking for Jack Trent.

Indexer Notes

story title from next issue blurb in previous issue

Quentin Roosevelt, Heroic Fighter (Table of Contents: 14)

comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script

Bill Ely (signed)

Pencils

Bill Ely (signed)

Inks

Bill Ely (signed)

Letters

?

Genre

non-fiction; biography

Characters

Quentin Roosevelt

Indexer Notes

inside back cover

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

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