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Issue Details

Issue #15
Published May 1938
Cover Price 0.10
Pages 68
Editing Vincent Sullivan

Cover Details

Pencils Creig Flessel
Inks Creig Flessel

6 page Speed Saunders story "The Mystery of the Darby Pearls"

Characters V: Lord Eton (I); GS: Doris, Malcolm, and Dick Dane
Genre detective
Script Gardner Fox
Pencils Creig Flessel
Inks Creig Flessel

1 page Oscar the Gumshoe filler

Genre gag
Script Bob Kane
Pencils Bob Kane
Inks Bob Kane

6 page Buck Marshall story "Heels and Toes"

Characters V: Bill Owens (I)
Script Homer Fleming
Pencils Homer Fleming
Inks Homer Fleming

6 page Larry Steele story "The Plot To Kill Larry Steele: Part 1"

Characters V: Snow (I)
Genre detective
Script Will Ely
Pencils Will Ely
Inks Will Ely
Notes story in black and white

12 page Bruce Nelson story "Too Many Crooks"

Characters V: Caulkins and Strafacchi
Genre detective
Script Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson
Pencils Tom Hickey
Inks Tom Hickey

2 page text story "Lightning Strikes Once"

Script Gardner Fox (Paul Dean)
Pencils Creig Flessel
Inks Creig Flessel
Letters typeset

4 page Spy story "Mr. Death"

Characters V: Mr. Death (I)
Genre adventure
Script Jerry Siegel
Pencils Joe Shuster
Inks Joe Shuster

8 page filler "Bring 'em In Brannigan"

Script Russell Cole (as Alger)
Pencils Russell Cole (as Alger)
Inks Russell Cole (as Alger)

6 page Cosmo story "The Plane Crash Mystery"

Characters V: Pierce (I); I: Doris Day
Pencils Sven Elven
Inks Sven Elven
Notes story in black and white

13 page Slam Bradley story "The Lady-Killer"

Characters V: Chester Glass (I)
Genre detective
Script Jerry Siegel
Pencils Joe Shuster
Inks Joe Shuster
Notes title from last issue blurb

1 page filler "Ruth Harkness: Her Adventures In the Far East"

Script Will Ely
Pencils Will Ely
Inks Will Ely