Detective Comics
#39
(May 1940)
DC,
1937 Series
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 68
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1940-04-05
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Detective Comics, Inc.
- Brand
-
A DC Publication
- Editing
- Whitney Ellsworth (uncredited)
Issue Notes
On sale date from the publication date found at the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, New Series, Volume 35, 1940, Number 2. Class B periodical. Copyright number B 451428.
[no title indexed]
The Batman with Robin the Boy Wonder / cover / 1 page
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]
- Reprints
-
in Batman Archives (DC, 1990 series) #1 ([July] 1990) -
in DC Archiv Edition (Dino Verlag, 1998 series) #3 - Batman 1 - in The Batman Chronicles (DC, 2005 series) #2 ([November] 2006)
- in Batman: The Golden Age Omnibus (DC, 2015 series) #1 (2015 [January 2016])
- in Batman: The Golden Age (DC, 2016 series) #1 ([October] 2016)
-
- Keywords
- automatic pistols; construction crane hook and ball; pipe wrenches
The Horde of the Green Dragon!
The Batman with Robin the Boy Wonder / comic story / 12 pages
- Script
- Bill Finger
- Pencils
- Bob Kane (signed)
- Inks
- Bob Kane (signed); Jerry Robinson (backgrounds)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Jerry Robinson
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- The Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Julie Madison (cameo); Henry Crandall (millionaire); John Cobb (millionaire); Cobb's chauffeur (death); Wong (unofficial Mayor of Chinatown, death); The Green Dragon (villains)
- Synopsis
- The kidnapping of two millionaires and the murder (with a hatchet) of a chauffeur leads the Batman into Chinatown to battle the Green Dragon and their dealings in opium.
- Reprints
- in Batman Archives (DC, 1990 series) #1 ([July] 1990)
- in DC Archiv Edition (Dino Verlag, 1998 series) #3 - Batman 1
- in The Batman Chronicles (DC, 2005 series) #2 ([November] 2006)
-
in Continuum (JMF, 2007 series) #4 (No Date [circa 2008 Mars]) - in Batman: The Golden Age Omnibus (DC, 2015 series) #1 (2015 [January 2016])
- in L'histoire des super-héros (Neofelis, 2016 series) (avril 2016)
- in Batman: The Golden Age (DC, 2016 series) #1 ([October] 2016)
-
- Keywords
- Chinatown; Heralde; slingshot
Indexer Notes
Strip titled in this issue as "The Sensation Adventures of the Batman and Robin, the Boy Wonder."
The last panel (illustrated) at the end of the story touts the next villain for the Batman: Clayface!
[The Chauffeur Spy]
Spy / comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- Jerry Siegel (signed)
- Pencils
- Maurice Kashuba (signed)
- Inks
- Maurice Kashuba (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- adventure; spy
- Characters
- Bart Regan
[Switch the Switch]
The Crimson Avenger / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- The Crimson Avenger [Lee Travis]; Wing
Gulliver's Travels, by Jonathon Swift
Monthly Book Review / promo (ad from the publisher) / 0.5 page
Stamp Items
Detective Stamp Page / text article / 1 page
Indexer Notes
Page includes many small ads from stamps dealers.
The Case of the Siva Statue
Speed Saunders, Ace Investigator / comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- Gardner Fox ?
- Pencils
- Fred Guardineer (signed)
- Inks
- Fred Guardineer (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Fred Guardineer
- Genre
- detective-mystery
- Characters
- Speed Saunders
[Morton Hijacking & Co.]
Steve Malone, District Attorney / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- detective-mystery
- Characters
- Steve Malone
[Larson's Boy Gets Kidnapped]
Cliff Crosby / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- adventure
- Characters
- Cliff Crosby
White Trap
text story / 1.33 pages
- Script
- Whitney Ellsworth (credited as Fredric Wells)
- Pencils
- ?
- Inks
- ?
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- adventure
Indexer Notes
Pseudonym verified by Jerry Bails.
[The French Impersonation]
Slam Bradley / comic story / 10 pages
- Script
- Jerry Siegel (signed)
- Pencils
- Dennis Neville (signed)
- Inks
- Dennis Neville (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- detective-mystery
- Characters
- Slam Bradley; Shorty Morgan
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
[no title indexed]
The Batman with Robin the Boy Wonder -
1.
[no title indexed]
The Crowell-Collier Publishing Co. -
2.
The Horde of the Green Dragon!
The Batman with Robin the Boy Wonder -
3.
Here It Is!
Batman -
4.
[The Chauffeur Spy]
Spy -
5.
[Cobra on the Loose]
Red Logan -
6.
Superman Is on the Radio!
The Adventures of Superman -
7.
[Switch the Switch]
The Crimson Avenger -
8.
Gulliver's Travels, by Jonathon Swift
Monthly Book Review -
9.
How a Brand-New Bike Came to "Newsy" Mike
Morrow Coaster Brake -
10.
Stamp Items
Detective Stamp Page -
11.
The Case of the Siva Statue
Speed Saunders, Ace Investigator -
12.
[Morton Hijacking & Co.]
Steve Malone, District Attorney -
13.
[Larson's Boy Gets Kidnapped]
Cliff Crosby -
14.
White Trap
-
15.
[no title indexed]
-
16.
Scrambled Household Words
-
17.
[The French Impersonation]
Slam Bradley -
18.
The "Big Six" Comic Magazines Still Lead the Field!
-
19.
[no title indexed]
Daisy Air Rifles -
20.
[no title indexed]
U. S. Bicycle Tires
This issue was modified by, among others
- Katie
- Ray Bottorff Jr
- Craig Delich
- Gregory Fischer
- Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
- Chris Launder
- Matthew Peets
- Tony R. Rose
- Per Sandell
- Ramon Schenk
- Lawrence Earl Thompson
- Jim Van Dore
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