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24February 1939
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Detective Comics #24

DC · February 1939 · on sale 1939-01-05

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Series
Detective Comics (DC, 1937 series)
Issue
#24
Publication date
February 1939
Key date
1939-02-00
On-sale date
1939-01-05
Indicia publisher
Detective Comics Inc.
Price
$0.10
Pages
68

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Contents

SeqStoryTypePagesCreditsCharacters
0-cover1pencils: Fred Guardineer; inks: Fred Guardineer
1Tic-Tac-Toecomic story0.75script: Bob Kane; pencils: Bob Kane; inks: Bob KaneCleo; Clancy
2-credits, title page0.25letters: typeset
3The Persian Jewel Mysterycomic story6script: Gardner Fox; pencils: Fred Guardineer; inks: Fred GuardineerSpeed Saunders
4-comic story1script: Bob Kane; pencils: Bob Kane; inks: Bob KaneOscar
5The Model Murder Mystery, Part 1comic story6script: Will Ely; pencils: Will Ely; inks: Will ElyLarry Steele
6The Ace Foundry Sabotagecomic story6pencils: Sven Elvén; inks: Sven Elvén; letters: Sven ElvenCosmo, the Phantom of Disguise
7Subterfuge at Seacomic story6script: Jerry Siegel; pencils: Joe Shuster; inks: Joe Shuster, Joe ShusterSally Norris, Bart Regan
8Dental Work Now Is Almost As Good an Evidence of Identity As Fingerprints!cartoon1script: Don Vincent; pencils: Don Vincent; inks: Don Vincent
9Will Issue Own Stampstext article0.6letters: typeset
11The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu, Part 8comic story4script: Leo O'Mealia, Sax Rohmer; pencils: Leo O'Mealia; inks: Leo O'MealiaDr. Fu Manchu; Sir Dennis Nayland Smith; Dr. Petrie
12The Old Gray Housetext story0.65script: Terry Keane; pencils: Fred Guardineer; inks: Fred GuardineerBilly Kane; Joe; Harry (counterfeiter); Chief of Police Higgins
16Tony Sparta and the River Gangcomic story6script: Jim Chambers; pencils: Jim Chambers; inks: Jim ChambersThe Crimson Avenger, Wing How, Lee Travis, Wing
17Back from the Dead [Part 1]comic story6script: Tom Hickey; pencils: Tom Hickey; inks: Tom HickeyBruce Nelson
18Trail of Papercomic story6script: H. Fleming; pencils: H. Fleming; inks: H. FlemingBuck Marshall
19In Two Billion A.D., Part 2comic story13script: Jerry Siegel; pencils: Joe Shuster; inks: Joe Shuster, Joe ShusterSlam Bradley, Shorty Morgan
20-activity1script: A. W. Nugent; pencils: A. W. Nugent; inks: A. W. Nugent; letters: A. W. Nugent

Plus 1.75 pages of advertisements and other matter across 5 sequences, as published.

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