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Issue Details

Issue #16
Published June 1938
Cover Price 0.10
Pages 68
Editing Vincent Sullivan

Cover Details

Pencils Creig Flessel
Inks Creig Flessel

6 page Speed Saunders story "The Case of the Missing Corpse"

Characters Speed Saunders; Mike Bruno (intro, villain); Miss Bannon; Joseph Bannon (flashback)
Genre detective
Script Gardner Fox
Pencils Creig Flessel
Inks Creig Flessel

1 page filler "Black Tony Barmacino: Dictator of the Dope Dynasty"

Script Will Ely?
Pencils Will Ely?
Inks Will Ely?

6 page Larry Steele story "The Plot to Kill Larry Steele: Part 2"

Characters Larry Steele; Snow (villain)
Genre detective
Script Will Ely
Pencils Will Ely
Inks Will Ely

6 page Cosmo story "The National Museum Mystery"

Characters Cosmo; Korensky (intro, villain)
Pencils Sven Elven
Inks Sven Elven
Notes story in black and white

11 page Bruce Nelson story "Too Many Crooks: Part 3"

Characters Bruce Nelson; Tony Freeland (intro, villain, death)
Genre detective
Script Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson?
Pencils Tom Hickey
Inks Tom Hickey

2 page text story "The Tattoo Trap"

Script Gardner Fox (as Paul Dean)
Letters typeset

8 page Spy story "A Traitor In Our Midst"

Characters Spy; Barrow (intro, villain, death); Kleog (intro, villain, death); Mrs. Barrow (intro)
Genre adventure
Script Jerry Siegel
Pencils Joe Shuster
Inks Joe Shuster

4 page filler "Fingerprint" Farson, the Plain Clothes Man

Characters "Fingerprint" Farson
Script Russell Cole
Pencils Russell Cole (as Alger)
Inks Russell Cole

6 page Buck Marshall story "Trading Trouble"

Characters Buck Marshall; Ned Tobin (intro, villain)
Script Homer Fleming
Pencils Homer Fleming
Inks Homer Fleming
Notes story in black and white

13 page Slam Bradley story "The Broadway Bandit"

Characters Slam Bradley; Joan Carter (intro); The Broadway Bandit [Boris Desmond] (intro, villain)
Genre detective
Script Jerry Siegel
Pencils Joe Shuster
Inks Joe Shuster
Notes title from last issue blurb