- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Fred Guardineer (credited, signed)
- Inks
- Fred Guardineer (credited, signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- I have called you in, Saunders...
- Genre
- detective-mystery
- Characters
- Speed Saunders; a spy (introduction, death); Percy (introduction, death); Mr. Horn (introduction); Miss Horn (introduction)
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.
Guardineer signs in the final panel.
- Script
- Bob Kane (signed)
- Pencils
- Bob Kane (signed)
- Inks
- Bob Kane (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Gosh! The Black Mask Gang...
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Oscar the Gumshoe
- Synopsis
- Oscar receives a note telling him of the whereabouts of the Black Hand Gang, notorious bank robbers. He and a squad of police advance on a shack, kick in the door, and find a gang of kids who are amused that the cops have fallen for their prank.
- Script
- Bill Ely (credited as Will Ely)
- Pencils
- Bill Ely (credited as Will Ely)
- Inks
- Bill Ely (credited as Will Ely)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Mr. Steele, there's a Mr. Graham from Hollywood to see you--
- Genre
- detective-mystery
- Characters
- Larry Steele; Bill Graham (introduction); Vera Sanders (introduction); The Boss (villain, introduction); his gang (villains, introduction)
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Sven Elven (credited)
- Inks
- Sven Elven (credited)
- Letters
- Sven Elven
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Van Ruyter has, after two years...
- Genre
- adventure; detective-mystery
- Characters
- Cosmo; Von Ruyter (introduction); Countess Varnoff De Mornay (villain, introduction)
- Synopsis
- Von Ruyter has invented a new form of high explosive gun. Tests for the War Department are spectacular, and they ask permission to install a battery of guns in one of their Pacific possessions. The plans are stolen, however, and his friend Cosmo goes off to investigate, finally uncovering the Russian Countess De Mornay. She gets away with false plans Cosmo has planted. The diagram shows the monkey cage in the Bronx Zoo, and the formula is that for castor oil.
story in black and white
- Script
- Leo O'Mealia; Sax Rohmer (original author) (credited)
- Pencils
- Leo O'Mealia
- Inks
- Leo O'Mealia
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Imagine a man, tall, lean and cat-like...
- Genre
- adventure
- Characters
- Sir Denis Nayland Smith (introduction); Dr. Petrie (introduction); Dr. Fu Manchu (villain, introduction)
- Reprints
- from Dr. Fu Manchu daily (Bell Syndicate)
Adapted from The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu by Sax Rohmer; also reprinted in Wow -- What a Magazine! (Henle Publications, 1936 series) #1-4.
The daily strip ran in newspapers in 1930 and 1931.
- Script
- Jerry Siegel (credited as Jerome Siegel)
- Pencils
- Joe Shuster (credited as Shuster)
- Inks
- Joe Shuster (credited as Shuster)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- adventure
- Characters
- The Hooded Hordes (introduction, villains); Bart Regan; Betsy Norris
story title from next issue blurb in previous issue
- Script
- Vin Sullivan (credited as Paul Dean)
- Pencils
- ?
- Inks
- ?
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- sports
- Characters
- Percy Hamilton; Slugger Brant; Mr. Stone
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.
- Script
- Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson ?
- Pencils
- Tom Hickey (credited) (signed as TH)
- Inks
- Tom Hickey (credited) (signed as TH)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- adventure; aviation; detective-mystery
- Characters
- Bruce Nelson; Captain Carstairs (villain, introduction)
- Script
- Homer Fleming (credited as H. Fleming)
- Pencils
- Homer Fleming (credited as H. Fleming)
- Inks
- Homer Fleming (credited as H. Fleming)
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- adventure; western-frontier
- Characters
- Buck Marshall; Speck (villain, introduction)
story in black and white
- Script
- Jerry Siegel (credited as Siegel)
- Pencils
- Joe Shuster (credited as Shuster)
- Inks
- Joe Shuster (credited as Shuster)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- adventure; detective-mystery
- Characters
- Slam Bradley; Shorty Morgan; Ramon Gonzales (villain, introduction); Sporty Morgan (Shorty's brother, introduction)