Detective Comics #4 (1937) for Sale - Where to Buy

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Seq	Story	Type	Pages	Credits	Characters
0	-	cover	1	pencils: Creig Flessel; inks: Creig Flessel
1	The Comic Headliner!	promo (ad from the publisher)	0.67	pencils: Vin Sullivan; inks: Vin Sullivan
2	-	credits, title page	0.33	letters: typeset
3	The Mystery of San José Island	comic story	6	script: Fless; pencils: Fless; inks: Fless	Speed Saunders
5	New Book of Comics	promo (ad from the publisher)	0.25
6	-	cartoon	0.33
7	-	promo (ad from the publisher)	0.05
9	The Rajah's Ruby	comic story	6	script: Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson; pencils: Sven Elvén; inks: Sven Elvén	Cosmo, the Phantom of Disguise
10	Death Message	comic story	6	script: Homer Fleming; pencils: H. Fleming; inks: H. Fleming	Buck Marshall
11	The Claws of the Red Dragon [Part 4]	comic story	12	script: Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson; pencils: Tom Hickey; inks: Tom Hickey	Bruce Nelson
12	The Evil Oak	text story	6	script: Paul Dean; pencils: Creig Flessel; inks: Creig Flessel	Detective Pat Byrne; Stanley Harwick; Bates; Police Captain Mahoney
13	The Bumps Mystery	comic story	4	script: Alger; pencils: Alger; inks: Alger	Mortimer Quakenbush Bumps
14	The Balinoff Case, Part 4	comic story	4	script: Siegel; pencils: Shuster; inks: Shuster	Sally Norris, Bart Regan
15	The Bloody Will	comic story	6	pencils: Win; inks: Win	Mr. Chang
16	The Hollywood Murders	comic story	13	script: Siegel; pencils: Shuster; inks: Shuster	Slam Bradley, Shorty Morgan
17	Better Than Ever!	promo (ad from the publisher)	1	pencils: Creig Flessel; inks: Creig Flessel

Plus 1.37 pages of advertisements and other matter across 3 sequences, as published.

Collection	Year
Atomic Comics #1	1946	On eBay ›

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