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44November 1939
$0.10

Adventure Comics #44

DC · November 1939 · on sale 1939-10-03

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Series
Adventure Comics (DC, 1938 series)
Issue
#44
Publication date
November 1939
Key date
1939-11-00
On-sale date
1939-10-03
Indicia publisher
Detective Comics Inc.
Price
$0.10
Pages
68

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Contents

SeqStoryTypePagesCreditsCharacters
0-cover1pencils: Creig Flessel; inks: Creig FlesselWesley Dodds, The Sandman
2The Sandman Meets the Facecomic story10script: Larry Dean; pencils: Creig Flessel; inks: Creig Flessel, Fred Guardineer; letters: Fred GuardineerWesley Dodds, The Sandman
3The Sandman at the World's Fair!promo (ad from the publisher)1letters: typeset
4The Return of Fang Gow, Part 2comic story6script: Win; pencils: Win; inks: WinBarry O'Neill; Fang Gow (villain)
5-comic story2script: Fred Schwab; pencils: Fred Schwab; inks: Fred Schwab; letters: Fred SchwabButch
6-comic story4script: Jerry Siegel; pencils: Mart Bailey; inks: Mart BaileySteve Carson, The Chief
7-in-house column1script: ? (in character as Steve Carson); letters: typeset
8King Honored; Cathedral Stamptext article0.5letters: typeset
10The Two Mr. Rowescomic story6script: Koppy; pencils: Koppy; inks: KoppySocko Strong; The Boss (villain, introduction); The Boss' gang (villains, introduction); Ben Rowe (introduction)
11Mystery in Londontext story1.35script: Paul Dean
16Count Ogrloff's Dangerous Game, Part 2comic story6script: Win; pencils: Win; inks: WinCaptain Desmo; Count Ogrloff (villain, death); Miss Ogrloff (guest)
17Fought Bare-Handed Battle with Infuriated Leopard!cartoon1script: Terry Gilkison; pencils: Terry Gilkison; inks: Terry Gilkison
18Cy Young, Sueo Ohecartoon0.5script: Sheldon Moldoff; pencils: Sheldon Moldoff; inks: Sheldon Moldoff
20Search For Captain Wade, Part 1comic story6script: Tom Hickey; pencils: Tom Hickey; inks: Tom HickeySkip Schuyler; Capt. Peter Wade (introduction); Igook (villain, introduction)
21The Menace of Chen Fu, Part 4comic story4script: Bill Finger; pencils: Bob Kane; inks: Bob Kane; letters: Bob KaneRusty; Chen Fu (villain)
22Alcatraz Alcomic story6script: Bart Tumey; pencils: Bart Tumey; inks: Bart TumeyAlcatraz Al (villain, introduction)
23The Magnetic Perilcomic story6script: Gardner Fox; pencils: Ogden Whitney; inks: Ogden WhitneyCotton Carver; Deela; King Marl; Jagar (villain, death); Farbus (villain, introduction); Rollo (villain, introduction)
24-cartoon1script: George Papp; pencils: George Papp; inks: George Papp

Plus 4.65 pages of advertisements and other matter across 9 sequences, as published.

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