Detective Comics #2 for Sale - First Appearance of Mr. Chang - Where to Buy

Identification plate

Series: Detective Comics (DC, 1937 series)
Issue: #2
Publication date: April 1937
Key date: 1937-04-00
On-sale date: 1937-03-10
Indicia publisher: Detective Comics Inc.
Price: $0.10
Pages: 68

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Why this issue matters

First appearance of Mr. Chang - 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.

Seq	Story	Type	Pages	Credits	Characters
0	-	cover	1	pencils: Creig Flessel; inks: Creig Flessel
1	-	promo (ad from the publisher)	0.67
2	-	credits, title page	0.33	letters: typeset
3	Skyscraper Death	comic story	13	script: Jerome Siegel; pencils: Joe Shuster; inks: Joe Shuster	Slam Bradley, Shorty Morgan
4	The Sage City Bank Holdup	comic story	6	script: Homer Fleming; pencils: Homer Fleming; inks: Homer Fleming	Buck Marshall
5	The Disappearing Duck	comic story	4	script: Bill Patrick; pencils: Bill Patrick; inks: Bill Patrick	Gumshoe Gus
6	The Peruvian Mine Murders, Part 2	comic story	6	pencils: Creig Flessel; inks: Creig Flessel	Bret Lawton
7	Room Fifteen	comic story	4	script: Alger; pencils: Alger; inks: Alger; letters: Alger
8	The Balinoff Case, Part 2	comic story	4	script: Jerome Siegel; pencils: Joe Shuster; inks: Joe Shuster	Sally Norris, Bart Regan
9	G-Man	comic story	2	script: Pete De Angelo; pencils: Pete De Angelo; inks: Pete De Angelo	Murphy
10	The Narcotic Ring	comic story	6	pencils: Win; inks: Win	Mr. Chang First
11	The Olive Oil Counterfeiters	comic story	6	script: Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson; pencils: Sven Elvén; inks: Sven Elvén; letters: Sven Elven	Cosmo, the Phantom of Disguise
12	The Claws of the Red Dragon, Part 2	comic story	12	script: Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson; pencils: Tom Hickey; inks: Tom Hickey	Bruce Nelson
13	-	cartoon	1	script: Fred Schwab; pencils: Fred Schwab; inks: Fred Schwab; letters: Fred Schwab
14	Next Month:	promo (ad from the publisher)	1	letters: typeset

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

Where to read it

Collection	Year
DC's Greatest Detective Stories Ever Told #[nn] ISBN 978-1-77950-594-1	2021	On eBay ›

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Before you buy

Golden-age paper is brittle. Ask about page suppleness and check edges for chips in the photos.
Check for trimmed edges, married covers, and clipped coupons - all common on books this old.
Confirm the indicia matches this plate; many golden-age titles changed names mid-run.

Series context

‹ #12 of 883#3 ›

Sources

Grand Comics Database, issue record (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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