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Issue: Detective Comics #37
Publication Date: March 1940
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Issues: #37 of 883 Issues (1409 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: [no rating]
Publisher: FlagDC
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Detective Comics Inc.
On Sale Date: 02/02/1940
Volume: 3
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 20 (10 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: Volume number and the on sale date from the publication date found at the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, New Series, Volume 35, January-December 1940, Numbers 1-4. Class B periodical. Copyright number B 443609.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color cover; color interior
Dimensions: standard Golden Age US; standard Silver Age US; standard Modern Age US
Paper Stock: newsprint; glossy
Binding: saddle-stitched; squarebound
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
Format Notes:  
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There is currently no data for this Issue being reprinted from anywhere.
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Original Artwork
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Adult Image
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Batman [Bruce Wayne]
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In Content Item: FlagBatman from the 30s to the 70s #[nn] [unnamed variant] published January 1971
as Detective Comics No. 37 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagBatman Archives #1 [First Printing] published July 1990
as Cover - Detective Comics #37 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagThe Batman Chronicles #1 [First Printing] published May 2005
as Detective Comics #37 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside front cover.
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The Screaming House

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Joey (death); Al (villain, grocery store owner); Elias Turg [aka "The Head"; also as Count Grutt] (villain, death); Carl (villain)
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.
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In Content Item: FlagO Lobinho (2ª Série) #16 published August 1941
as Batman, o Homem-Morcego Contra a Ameaça de Turg [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagBatman #237 published December 1971
as The Screaming House [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagLäderlappen #1/1975 published January 1975
as Läderlappens sista soloäventyr [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagLynvingen #1/1975 published January 1975
as Det gamle huset [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagBatman Archives #1 [First Printing] published July 1990
as The Screaming House [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagThe Batman Chronicles #1 [First Printing] published May 2005
as The Screaming House [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 12
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Ordered to March Across the Ocean

Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: informational, non-fiction
Feature(s): Fantastic Facts
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Pages: 1
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The Ring of Death

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Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, espionage
Character(s): Bart Regan
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Pages: 6
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Mutiny on the Sea Swan

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Character(s): Cosmo
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Pages: 6
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Laura Burlingame's Been Kidnapped

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Crimson Avenger [Lee Travis] (in hat and cloak); Wing; Laura Burlingame
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Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Last story was in Detective Comics #29; appeared as the cover (only) feature of #34.
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Murder at Sea

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Over two pages.
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Pages: 0.25
Disclose Notes: At the bottom of the first page of the text story.
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A Bike for You

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Pages: 0.5
Disclose Notes: Advertisement from The Crowell-Collier Publishing Company, Springfield, Ohio. On the bottom of the second page of the text story.
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Letterer(s): ?
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Pages: 0.25
Disclose Notes: A few small ads on both pages of the text story.
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The Crime Roundup

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: mystery
Character(s): Speed Saunders
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Pages: 6
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Miss Cooper Is Kidnapped

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
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Subject Matter
Genres: mystery
Character(s): Steve Malone
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Pages: 6
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Judge Carson

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Character(s): Cliff Crosby
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Pages: 6
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Tiny
Character(s): Tiny
First Line: Don't look so innocent...
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Pages: 1
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Small Decisions

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Detective Stamp Page
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Page includes many small ads from stamps dealers.
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A Dynamite Gift

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
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Subject Matter
Genres: mystery
Character(s): Slam Bradley; Shorty Morgan
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Pages: 10
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Six Big Headline Features for the "Big Six" Comic Magazines!

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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
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Pages: 1
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[untitled]

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
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Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside back cover.
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Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Back cover.

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