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Issue Details

Issue #37
Published March 1940
Cover Price 0.10
Pages 68
Editing Vincent Sullivan

Cover Details

Characters Batman [Bruce Wayne]
Genre superhero
Pencils Bob Kane (signed)
Inks Bob Kane (signed); Jerry Robinson ?
Letters typeset
Reprinted In Batman from the Thirties to the Seventies (Crown Publishers, Inc., 1971 series) #73-168329; in The Batman Archives (DC, 1990 series) #1 (June 1990); In Batman Chronicles, The (DC, 2005 series) #1

12 page Batman story "The Screaming House"

Characters Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Joey (Death); Turg (villain); Count Grutt (villain; Death)
Synopsis While passing by an old house, the Batman hears screams and rushes in to save a man, who he soon discovers is a crook that has been double crossing his boss and who kills the thugs torturing him so there will be no witnesses. Later, the Caped Crusader learns from the dying Joey that his boss is a big time smuggler, and he takes immediate steps to solve that problem.
Genre superhero
Script Bill Finger
Pencils Bob Kane (signed); Jerry Robinson (backgrounds)
Inks Bob Kane (signed)
Letters Jerry Robinson
Notes Some info and synopsis added by Craig Delich 2-12-09.
Reprinted In The Batman Archives (DC, 1990 series) #1 (June 1990); in Batman (DC, 1940 series) #237 (December 1971); In Batman Chronicles, The (DC, 2005 series) #1

1 page Fantastic Facts filler

Genre fact
Pencils George Papp
Inks George Papp

6 page Spy story "The Ring of Death"

Characters Bart Regan
Genre adventure
Script Jerry Siegel (signed)
Pencils Maurice Kashuba (signed)
Inks Maurice Kashuba (signed)

6 page Cosmo, the Phantom of Disguise story "Mutiny on the Sea Swan"

Characters Cosmo
Genre adventure
Script Sven Elven?
Pencils Sven Elven (signed)
Inks Sven Elven (signed)
Notes Writer credit added by Craig Delich 2-12-09.

6 page The Crimson Avenger story "Laura Burlingame's been Kidnapped"

Characters Crimson Avenger [Lee Travis] (in hat and cloak), Wing; Laura Burlingame.
Genre superhero
Script Jim Chambers?
Pencils Harry Lucey?
Inks Harry Lucey?
Notes Last appearance was in Detective #29.

2 page text story "Murder by Sea"

Genre crime
Script John Randall (signed)
Letters typeset

6 page Speed Saunders, Ace Investigator story "The Crime Roundup"

Characters Speed Saunders
Genre detective
Script Gardner F. Fox (signed)
Pencils Fred Guardineer (signed)
Inks Fred Guardineer (signed)
Letters Fred Guardineer

6 page Steve Malone, District Attorney story "Miss Cooper is Kidnapped"

Characters Steve Malone
Genre detective
Pencils Don Lynch (signed)
Inks Don Lynch (signed)

6 page Cliff Crosby story "Judge Carson"

Characters Cliff Crosby
Genre adventure
Script Chad Grothkopf
Pencils Chad Grothkopf
Inks Chad Grothkopf
Letters Chad Grothkopf

1 page Tiny filler

Characters Tiny
Genre gag

10 page Slam Bradley story "A Dynamite Gift"

Characters Slam Bradley; Shorty Morgan.
Genre detective
Script Jerry Siegel (signed)
Pencils Mart Bailey (signed)
Inks Mart Bailey (signed)