New Adventure Comics #12 for Sale - First Appearance of Errol Flynn - Where to Buy

Identification plate

Series: New Adventure Comics (DC, 1937 series)
Issue: #12
Publication date: January 1937
Key date: 1937-01-00
On-sale date: 1936-12-18
Indicia publisher: Nicholson Publishing Co. Inc.
Price: $0.10; 0.15 CAD
Pages: 68

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Why this issue matters

First appearance of Errol Flynn - the earliest non-flashback appearance on record for this character.

First appearance of Peter Lorre - the earliest non-flashback appearance on record for this character.

The evidence

Claims here come from the story records for this issue, listed under Sources at the bottom of the file. Character hubs with full evidence tables are coming to this site.

Seq	Story	Type	Pages	Credits	Characters
0	-	cover	1	pencils: Whitney Ellsworth; inks: Whitney Ellsworth	Father Time; New Year 1937
2	The Train Robbery, Part 11	comic story	3	script: H. Fleming; pencils: H. Fleming; inks: H. Fleming	Captain Jim; Jane; Johnny; Jed Riley; Rusty
3	-	cartoon	1	script: Richard Speed; pencils: Richard Speed; inks: Richard Speed	George Washington
4	-	comic story	0.5	script: Whitney Ellsworth; pencils: Whitney Ellsworth; inks: Whitney Ellsworth	Janey
6	-	comic story	2	script: Alger; pencils: Alger; inks: Alger	Goofo; Joe
7	Episode 12	comic story	2	script: Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson; pencils: Anthony; inks: Anthony	Ivar; Sundgrid; Elsa; Hasylwyn
8	Knights of the Royal Bull, Part 1	comic story	2	script: Ed Beckwith; pencils: Bill Patrick; inks: Bill Patrick	Don Coyote; Hash; Hamburger
9	Episode 11	comic story	2	script: Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson; pencils: Sven Elven; inks: Sven Elven; letters: Sven Elven	Kendal Quick; Marjorie; Dufoe; Lord Barlow
10	Episode 5	comic story	4	script: Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson; pencils: Munson Paddock; inks: Munson Paddock	Baslyn (villain)
11	-	text article	2	script: I. W. Magovern	Peter Lorre First
12	-	comic story	2	script: R. Donrog; pencils: R. Donrog; inks: R. Donrog	Rattlesnake Pete; Little Britches
13	17-20 on the Black [Part 12]	comic story	2	script: Tom Cooper; pencils: Tom Cooper; inks: Tom Cooper	Jim Gale; Frog Morton; Kim; Louise Vallen
14	-	comic story	2	script: Leo E. O'Mealia; pencils: Leo E. O'Mealia; inks: Leo E. O'Mealia	Andy Handy
15	Ebony	comic story	1	script: Bill Patrick; pencils: Bill Patrick; inks: Bill Patrick	Ebony (only appearance)
16	Wallace Beery	cartoon	1	script: Laidlaw; pencils: Laidlaw; inks: Laidlaw	Errol Flynn First
17	-	comic story	2	script: Alger; pencils: Alger; inks: Alger	Ol' Oz Bopp
18	The Charge of the Light Brigade, by Alfred, Lord Tennyson	illustration	2	script: Alfred, Lord Tennyson; pencils: Henry Carl Kiefer; inks: Henry Carl Kiefer
19	-	cartoon	2	script: Vin Sullivan; pencils: Vin Sullivan; inks: Vin Sullivan	Elmer; Mrs. Wxlystzki
20	Episode 7	comic story	2	script: Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson, H. Rider Haggard; pencils: Sven Elven; inks: Sven Elven; letters: Sven Elven	Leo; Job; Chief Billaly [Billali elsewhere]; Holly
21	Loopy	comic story	2	script: Leroy Smith; pencils: Leroy Smith; inks: Leroy Smith	Loopy (only appearance); Joe; Officer Kelly
22	Episode 11	comic story	2	script: Tom Cooper; pencils: Tom Cooper; inks: Tom Cooper	Shark; Taro; Blackface
23	Episode 7	comic story	2	script: Tom Hickey, Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson; pencils: Tom Hickey; inks: Tom Hickey	Ian Murray; Ken Cockerill; Lefty Murphy; Pan Chi-Lou
24	The St. Pierre Mystery, Part 9	comic story	2	script: Babe Mather; pencils: Babe Mather; inks: Babe Mather	Maginnis; Yvonne
25	-	comic story	2	script: Boody Rogers; pencils: Boody Rogers; inks: Boody Rogers	Rock-Age Roy; Short Tail
26	-	comic story	1	script: Dick Ryan; pencils: Dick Ryan; inks: Dick Ryan
27	Announcing the International Good Neighbor Club	letters page	1	letters: typeset
28	On Dolorosa Isle, Part 8	comic story	2	script: Creig Flessel; pencils: Creig Flessel; inks: Creig Flessel	Steve Conrad; Devachan (villain); Captain Judd
29	Down to Denver, Part 2	comic story	2	script: Ed Beckwith; pencils: Bill Patrick; inks: Bill Patrick	Cal; Alec
30	Rajah Marajah, Part 8	comic story	2	script: Homer Fleming; pencils: Homer Fleming; inks: Homer Fleming	Sandor; Rajah Maharajah (villain); Jadev the spy; Benar; Awla
31	Episode 9	comic story	2	script: Merna Gamble, Charles Dickens; pencils: Merna Gamble; inks: Merna Gamble	Madame Defarge; Defarge
32	-	comic story	2	script: Ellis Edwards; pencils: Ellis Edwards; inks: Ellis Edwards	Chikko Chakko; Loopy; the Sheriff; the Mayor
33	-	comic story	1	script: Alger; pencils: Alger; inks: Alger	Sam
35	New Book of Comics	promo (ad from the publisher)	0.05
36	Shanghai Pete, Part 4	comic story	0.75	script: Bill Carney; pencils: Bill Carney; inks: Bill Carney	Hardluck Harry
37	Federal Men of Tomorrow	comic story	4	script: Jerome Siegel; pencils: Joe Shuster; inks: Joe Shuster	Steve Carson, The Chief
38	-	comic story	1	script: Bill Patrick; pencils: Bill Patrick; inks: Bill Patrick	Robert Gruman
39	More Fun Comics	promo (ad from the publisher)	0.7
40	-	credits, title page	0.3	letters: typeset

Plus 2.7 pages of advertisements and other matter across 4 sequences, as published.

Where to read it

Collection	Year
Adventure Comics #503	1983	On eBay ›
DC Comics Before Superman: Major Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson's Pulp Comics #[nn] ISBN 9781613451649	2018	On eBay ›

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Before you buy

Golden-age paper is brittle. Ask about page suppleness and check edges for chips in the photos.
Check for trimmed edges, married covers, and clipped coupons - all common on books this old.
Confirm the indicia matches this plate; many golden-age titles changed names mid-run.

Series context

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Sources

Grand Comics Database, issue record (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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