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Publisher: DC

Title: Detective Comics
Issue: 30
Page Count: 68
Publish Date: August 1939
Volume: 3

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Detective Comics #30
Owner: Gotham Kid

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Story Title: [ no title ] - cover
Pages:1
Letters:typeset
Genre:crime


Story Title: [ no title ] - promo (ad from the publisher)
Features:All-American Comics; Movie Comics
Pages:1
Letters:typeset


Story Title: The Return of Doctor Death - comic story
Pages:10
Genre:superhero
Characters:The Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Mrs. Jones; Mrs. Jones's maid; Doctor Death [as Ivan Herd] (villain); Mikhail (villain, Dr. Death's assistant, death)
Synopsis:Thought dead in a fire in his home, Dr. Death has survived, but is in need of funds to re-establish himself, so he sets his sights on diamonds owned by a Mrs. Jones.


Story Title: Criminal Photography - cartoon
Features:Crime Never Pays
Pages:1
Genre:non-fiction; crime
Characters:Alphonse Bertillon; Herman N. Myers


Story Title: [ no title ] - comic story
Features:Oscar the Gumshoe
Pages:1
Genre:humor
Characters:Oscar; Filbert
Synopsis:Oscar chases after a thief who robs a toy store.


Story Title: [ no title ] - text article
Features:Detective Stamp Page
Pages:1
Letters:typeset
Genre:non-fiction


Story Title: Finger of Doom - comic story
Features:Buck Marshall, Range Detective
Pages:6
Colors:? (red tones)
Genre:adventure; western-frontier
Characters:Buck Marshall; The Sheriff; Morgan; Vail; Slade


Story Title: The Dictator of the United States - comic story
Features:Spy
Pages:6
Genre:adventure; spy
Characters:Bart Regan; Senator Kingsley; Jack Steele; Ray Gordon


Story Title: The Old Man and the Kid - comic story
Features:Larry Steele, Private Detective
Pages:6
Genre:detective-mystery
Characters:Larry Steele


Story Title: Shadowed - text story
Pages:1.56
Letters:typeset
Genre:adventure; detective-mystery
Characters:Chief of Police Benson; Detective Carr; Blinky Moroni


Story Title: [ no title ] - advertisement
Features:The Model Builder
Pages:0.44
Letters:typeset


Story Title: The Crossbow Mystery - comic story
Features:Speed Saunders, Ace Investigator
Pages:6
Genre:detective-mystery
Characters:Speed Saunders; Dustin Rhodes; Nancy
Synopsis:Speed investigates the murder of Dustin Rhodes.


Story Title: The Tea Racketeers - comic story
Features:Bruce Nelson
Pages:6
Genre:detective-mystery
Characters:Bruce Nelson; Billie; Sam Wong; Yan Lee
Synopsis:Bruce breaks up a racketeering operation involving the smuggling of tea.


Story Title: The Imperial Insurance Swindle - comic story
Features:Cosmo, the Phantom of Disguise
Pages:6
Colors:? (red tones)
Genre:adventure; crime
Characters:Cosmo; Inspector Gray; Gene Clausen; Captain Alvarez; Captain Midland


Story Title: The Granville Insane Asylum - comic story
Pages:13
Genre:adventure; detective-mystery
Characters:Slam Bradley; Shorty Morgan; Dr. Granville; Gloria Travers; Officer Kelly; Nick


Story Title: The Comic Book of Tomorrow Is Here Today!! - promo (ad from the publisher)
Features:New York World's Fair Comics
Pages:1
Letters:typeset


Story Title: [ no title ] - advertisement
Pages:1
Letters:typeset


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