Detective Comics #21 (1938) for Sale - Where to Buy

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Seq	Story	Type	Pages	Credits	Characters
0	-	cover	1	pencils: Leo O'Mealia; inks: Leo O'Mealia
1	Anchors Aweigh	promo (ad from the publisher)	1	letters: typeset
2	The Glass of Poison	comic story	6	script: Gardner Fox; pencils: Fred Guardineer; inks: Fred Guardineer	Speed Saunders
3	A Comparison Microscope	cartoon	0.75
5	The Accident Racket	comic story	6	script: Will Ely; pencils: Will Ely; inks: Will Ely	Larry Steele
6	Bullet Trap	comic story	6	script: H. Fleming; pencils: H. Fleming; inks: H. Fleming	Buck Marshall
7	The Affair of Baron Von Muldorf	comic story	8	script: Siegel; pencils: Shuster; inks: Shuster	Sally Norris, Bart Regan
8	The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu, Part 5	comic story	4	script: Leo O'Mealia, Sax Rohmer; pencils: Leo O'Mealia; inks: Leo O'Mealia	Dr. Fu Manchu; Sir Dennis Nayland Smith; Dr. Petrie
9	The Crime in Stone	text story	1.7	script: Paul Dean; pencils: Fred Guardineer; inks: Fred Guardineer	Captain Burey; Detective Charlie Fox; Mr. Spado (villain)
12	The Song of Death [Part 2]	comic story	6	script: Gardner Fox; pencils: Tom Hickey; inks: Tom Hickey	Bruce Nelson
13	Mystery at the Mt. Pleasant Cemetery	comic story	6	script: Jim Chambers; pencils: Jim Chambers; inks: Jim Chambers	The Crimson Avenger, Wing How, Lee Travis, Wing
14	The Pigeon Smugglers	comic story	6	script: Gardner Fox; pencils: Don Lynch; inks: Don Lynch	Steve Malone
15	Seth and the Slave Ring	comic story	13	script: Jerome Siegel; pencils: Joe Shuster; inks: Joe Shuster	Slam Bradley, Shorty Morgan

Plus 2.55 pages of advertisements and other matter across 5 sequences, as published.

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