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Detective Comics (1937) - #4
DC Comics

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Editor(s):
Whitney Ellsworth
Vincent A. Sullivan - 'Vin'
Major Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson

Cover Artist(s):
Creig Flessel

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Cover Date: June 1937
Cover Price: US $0.10

Issue Tagline: None.

Format: Color; Standard Comic Issue; 68 pages

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Notes:
This contains what appears to be the earliest Gardner Fox work for DC.

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"The Mystery of San Jos� Island" - Edit this story

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Writer(s):
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Gardner Fox

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Creig Flessel

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Creig Flessel

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Speed Saunders

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"[The Rajah's Ruby]" - Edit this story

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Sven Elven

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Sven Elven

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Cosmo the Phantom of Disguise (Earth-2)

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"Death Message" - Edit this story

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Homer William Fleming

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Homer William Fleming

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Homer William Fleming

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Buck Marshall (Earth-2)

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"Part 4" - Edit this story

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The Claws of the Red Dragon

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Major Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson

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Tom Hickey

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Tom Hickey

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Bruce Nelson (Earth-2)

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"The Evil Oak" - Edit this story

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Writer(s):
Gardner Fox

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This 5-page text story is the earliest confirmed DC work by Gardner Fox. Though it's heavily suspected that Fox also wrote the first story of this issue, the use of the known nom de plume "Paul Dean" with this story absolutely confirms Fox worked on this issue.

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Russell Cole (Alger)

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The Balinoff Case

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Jerome 'Jerry' Siegel

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Joe Shuster

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Sally Norris
Bart Regan (Earth-2)

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"The Hollywood Murders" - Edit this story

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Writer(s):
Jerome 'Jerry' Siegel

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Joe Shuster

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Samuel Emerson 'Slam' Bradley

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