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9November 1937
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Detective Comics #9

DC · November 1937 · on sale 1937-10-10

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Series
Detective Comics (DC, 1937 series)
Issue
#9
Publication date
November 1937
Key date
1937-11-00
On-sale date
1937-10-10
Indicia publisher
Detective Comics Inc.
Price
$0.10
Pages
68

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Contents

SeqStoryTypePagesCreditsCharacters
0-cover1pencils: Creig Flessel; inks: Creig FlesselSpeed Saunders
1Detective Comicstable of contents1letters: typeset
2Case of the Hobo Herocomic story6script: Creig Flessel; pencils: Creig Flessel; inks: Creig FlesselSpeed Saunders
3Sgt. Simpcomic story0.67script: Whitney Ellsworth; pencils: Whitney Ellsworth; inks: Whitney Ellsworth
5Mystery of the Wholesale Kidnappings, Part 5comic story6script: Will Ely; pencils: Will Ely; inks: Will ElyLarry Steele
6Death in the Radio-Studiocomic story6script: Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson; pencils: Sven Elvén; inks: Sven ElvénCosmo, the Phantom of Disguise
7The Blood of the Lotus [Part 1]comic story12script: Tom Hickey; pencils: Tom Hickey; inks: Tom HickeyBruce Nelson
8Death at Latitude 30text story5.84script: Fredric Wells; pencils: Creig Flessel; inks: Creig FlesselJed Johnson; Lola Mendez; Tim O'Connor
10The Johnson Mysterycomic story4script: Alger; pencils: Alger; inks: Alger
11The Vanishing of R-42comic story4script: Jerome Siegel; pencils: Joe Shuster; inks: Joe ShusterSally Norris, Bart Regan
12Silver and Leadcomic story6script: H. Fleming; pencils: H. Fleming; inks: H. FlemingBuck Marshall
13The Human Flycomic story12.89script: Jerome Siegel; pencils: Joe Shuster; inks: Joe ShusterSlam Bradley, Shorty Morgan
15Better Than Ever!promo (ad from the publisher)1pencils: Vin Sullivan; inks: Vin Sullivan

Plus 1.6 pages of advertisements and other matter across 4 sequences, as published.

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