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18August 1938
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Detective Comics #18

DC · August 1938 · on sale 1938-07-06

First appearance: Steve Malone
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Identification plate

Series
Detective Comics (DC, 1937 series)
Issue
#18
Publication date
August 1938
Key date
1938-08-00
On-sale date
1938-07-06
Indicia publisher
Detective Comics Inc.
Price
$0.10
Pages
68

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Why this issue matters

First appearance of Steve Malone - the earliest non-flashback appearance on record for this character.

The evidence

Claims here come from the story records for this issue, listed under Sources at the bottom of the file. Character hubs with full evidence tables are coming to this site.

Contents

SeqStoryTypePagesCreditsCharacters
0-cover1pencils: Creig Flessel; inks: Creig Flessel; colors: Creig FlesselDr. Fu Manchu
1Socko!promo (ad from the publisher)1letters: typeset
2The Hilton Diamondcomic story6pencils: Fred Guardineer; inks: Fred GuardineerSpeed Saunders
3-comic story1script: Bob Kane; pencils: Bob Kane; inks: Bob KaneOscar
4Murder in Texascomic story6pencils: Sven Elvén; inks: Sven Elvén; letters: Sven ElvenCosmo, the Phantom of Disguise
5The Maine Castle Mystery, Part 2comic story6script: Will Ely; pencils: Will Ely; inks: Will ElyLarry Steele
6The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu, Part 2comic story4script: Leo O'Mealia, Sax Rohmer; pencils: Leo O'Mealia; inks: Leo O'MealiaNayland Smith; Fu Manchu; Dr. Petrie
7Death's Rubycomic story8script: Siegel; pencils: Shuster; inks: ShusterSally Norris, Bart Regan
8The Golden Keytext story2script: Paul Dean; pencils: Fred Guardineer; inks: Fred GuardineerDetective Tom Lawton; Henry Burroughs; Arnold Lansing (villain)
9The Coolie Smugglers, Part IIcomic story12script: Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson; pencils: Tom Hickey; inks: Tom HickeyBruce Nelson
10The Lavalle Casecomic story6script: Gardner Fox; pencils: Don Lynch; inks: Don LynchSteve Malone First
11In the Stratospherecomic story13script: Jerome Siegel; pencils: Joe Shuster; inks: Joe ShusterSlam Bradley, Shorty Morgan
12-activity1script: A. W. Nugent; pencils: A. W. Nugent; inks: A. W. Nugent

Plus 1 page of advertisements and other matter across 1 sequence, as published.

Where to read it

CollectionYear
DC Comics: Sixty Years of the World's Favorite Comic Book Heroes #[nn]
ISBN 0-8212-2076-4		1995On eBay ›

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Series context

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Sources

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