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16June 1938
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Detective Comics #16

DC · June 1938 · on sale 1938-05-10

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Identification plate

Series
Detective Comics (DC, 1937 series)
Issue
#16
Publication date
June 1938
Key date
1938-06-00
On-sale date
1938-05-10
Indicia publisher
Detective Comics Inc.
Price
$0.10
Pages
68

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Contents

SeqStoryTypePagesCreditsCharacters
0-cover1pencils: Creig Flessel; inks: Creig Flessel
1Action Comicspromo (ad from the publisher)1script: Vin Sullivan; pencils: Joe Shuster; inks: Joe Shuster
2The Case of the Missing Corpsecomic story6script: Creig Flessel; pencils: Creig Flessel; inks: Creig FlesselSpeed Saunders
3Black Tony Barmacino: Dictator of the Dope Dynastycomic story1script: Will Ely; pencils: Will Ely; inks: Will ElyBlack Tony Barmacino
4The Plot to Kill Larry Steele, Part 2comic story6script: Will Ely; pencils: Will Ely; inks: Will ElyLarry Steele
5The National Museum Mysterycomic story6pencils: Sven Elvén; inks: Sven Elvén; letters: Sven ElvenCosmo, the Phantom of Disguise
6Too Many Crooks, Part 3comic story12script: Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson; pencils: Tom Hickey; inks: Tom HickeyBruce Nelson
7The Tattoo Traptext story1.65script: Paul Dean; pencils: Fred Guardineer; inks: Fred GuardineerKen (F.B.I. agent)
10A Traitor in Our Midstcomic story8script: Siegel; pencils: Shuster; inks: ShusterSally Norris, Bart Regan
11"Fingerprint" Farson, the Plain Clothes Mancomic story4script: Alger; pencils: Alger; inks: Alger"Fingerprint" Farson
12Trading Troublecomic story6script: H. Fleming; pencils: H. Fleming; inks: H. FlemingBuck Marshall
13The Broadway Banditcomic story13script: Jerome Siegel; pencils: Joe Shuster; inks: Joe ShusterSlam Bradley, Shorty Morgan

Plus 2.35 pages of advertisements and other matter across 4 sequences, as published.

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