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25March 1939
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Detective Comics #25

DC · March 1939 · on sale 1939-02-08

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Series
Detective Comics (DC, 1937 series)
Issue
#25
Publication date
March 1939
Key date
1939-03-00
On-sale date
1939-02-08
Indicia publisher
Detective Comics Inc.
Price
$0.10
Pages
68

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Contents

SeqStoryTypePagesCreditsCharacters
0-cover1pencils: Fred Guardineer; inks: Fred Guardineer
1-activity1script: A. W. Nugent; pencils: A. W. Nugent; inks: A. W. Nugent
2The Death Sledcomic story6script: Gardner Fox; pencils: Fred Guardineer; inks: Fred GuardineerSpeed Saunders
3Auto Tire's "Fingerprints"!comic story0.5
5The Model Murder Mystery, Part 2comic story6script: Will Ely; pencils: Will Ely; inks: Will ElyLarry Steele
6Death Masqueradescomic story6script: H. Fleming; pencils: H. Fleming; inks: H. FlemingBuck Marshall
7The President's Assignmentcomic story6script: Jerry Siegel; pencils: Joe Shuster; inks: Joe ShusterSally Norris, Bart Regan, Franklin D. Roosevelt
8-comic story1script: Bob Kane; pencils: Bob Kane; inks: Bob KaneOscar Zilch; Officer Clancy; Officer O'Brian
9Sculptor Honored; Subway Honored; First Day Sales; Odds and Endstext article0.67letters: typeset
11The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu, Part 9comic story4script: Leo O'Mealia, Sax Rohmer; pencils: Leo O'Mealia; inks: Leo O'MealiaDr. Fu Manchu; Dr. Petrie; Sir Dennis Nayland Smith; Rev. J D. Eltham; Greba Eltham
12Secret Service Mantext story1.9script: Paul Dean; pencils: Fred Guardineer; inks: Fred Guardineer
14The Airline Insurance Murderscomic story6script: Jim Chambers; pencils: Jim Chambers; inks: Jim ChambersThe Crimson Avenger, Wing How, Lee Travis, Wing
15Back from the Dead [Part 2]comic story6script: Tom Hickey; pencils: Tom Hickey; inks: Tom HickeyBruce Nelson
16Ma Pierce's Last Kidnappingcomic story6pencils: Sven Elvén; inks: Sven Elvén; letters: Sven ElvenCosmo, the Phantom of Disguise
17The Merrivale Mysterycomic story13script: Jerry Siegel; pencils: Joe Shuster, Joe Shuster; inks: Joe ShusterSlam Bradley, Shorty Morgan

Plus 2.93 pages of advertisements and other matter across 5 sequences, as published.

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