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Issue Details

Issue #32
Published October 1939
Cover Price 0.10
Pages 68
Editing Vincent Sullivan

Cover Details

Genre crime
Pencils Fred Guardineer (signed as Guardineer)
Inks Fred Guardineer (signed as Guardineer)
Letters typeset
Reprinted In The Batman Archives (DC, 1990 series) #1 (June 1990); In Batman Chronicles, The (DC, 2005 series) #1

10 page Batman story "Batman vs. the Vampire, Part 2"

Characters Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Julie Madison; the Monk (villain; Death); Dala (villain; Intro; Death)
Synopsis Reaching Hungary with Julie, the Batman runs into another vampire, who wants to make a deal with him: if she shows him the Monk's hideout, will he kill him?
Genre superhero
Script Gardner F. Fox
Pencils Bob Kane (signed); Sheldon Moldoff (backgrounds)
Inks Bob Kane (signed)
Letters Sheldon Moldoff
Notes Batman shoots and kills all the vampires in the Monk's hideout. Note, some info and synopsis added by Craig Delich 2-10-09.
Reprinted In The Batman Archives (DC, 1990 series) #1 (June 1990); in Greatest Batman Stories Ever Told, The (DC, 1988 series) #nn [1]; in Greatest Batman Stories Ever Told, The (DC, 1989 series) #nn [1]; in Greatest Batman Stories Ever Told, The (Warner Books, 1989 series) #nn; in 100-Page Super Spectacular (DC, 1973 series) #DC-14 (March 1973); In Batman Chronicles, The (DC, 2005 series) #1

1 page Odds 'n Ends filler

Characters Bill de Correvont
Genre fact
Script Sheldon Moldoff (signed)
Pencils Sheldon Moldoff (signed)
Inks Sheldon Moldoff (signed)

6 page Spy story

Characters Bart Regan; Retjen.
Genre adventure
Script Jerry Siegel (signed)
Pencils Mart Bailey (signed)
Inks Mart Bailey (signed)

6 page Buck Marshall, Range Detective story "The Last Act"

Characters Buck Marshall
Genre western
Pencils Homer Fleming (signed as H. Fleming)
Inks Homer Fleming (signed as H. Fleming)

1 page Crime Never Pays filler

Genre fact
Script Vincent Sullivan?
Pencils Vincent Sullivan?
Inks Vincent Sullivan?

6 page Larry Steele, Private Detective story "Doris Dumont"

Characters Larry Steele; Doris Dumont.
Genre detective
Pencils Ken Ernst (signed)
Inks Ken Ernst (signed)

2 page text story "Vanishing Gems"

Genre adventure
Script Gardner F. Fox (signed as Paul Dean)
Letters typeset

6 page Speed Saunders, Ace Investigator story "The Skull-Face Cult"

Characters Speed Saunders
Genre detective
Pencils Fred Guardineer (signed)
Inks Fred Guardineer (signed)
Letters Fred Guardineer

6 page Cosmo, the Phantom of Disguise story "The Governor Assasinated"

Characters Cosmo
Genre adventure
Script Sven Elven?
Pencils Sven Elven (signed)
Inks Sven Elven (signed)
Notes Writer credit added by Craig Delich 2-10-09.

6 page Bruce Nelson story "Rosemary Blaine"

Characters Bruce Nelson; Rosemary Blaine.
Genre detective
Script Tom Hickey (signed)
Pencils Tom Hickey (signed)
Inks Tom Hickey (signed)

13 page Slam Bradley story "The Wrong Guy"

Characters Slam Bradley; Shorty Morgan; Cyrus Painter; The Man-Beast [villain].
Synopsis Slam breaks up a hold-up by socking the wrong guy.
Genre detective
Script Jerry Siegel (signed)
Pencils Joe Shuster (signed)
Inks Joe Shuster (signed)