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Detective Comics #30

DC · Series began 1937 · August 1939

Dates

Cover date
August 1939
On sale
June 30, 1939
Pages
68

Editions and covers

Creators

pencils: Fred Guardineer, Walter Galli, Bob Kane, Sheldon Moldoff, Terry Gilkison, Homer Fleming, Mart Bailey, Bill Ely, Tom Hickey, Sven Elven, Wayne Boring, Vin Sullivaninks: Fred Guardineer, Walter Galli, Bob Kane, Terry Gilkison, Homer Fleming, Mart Bailey, Bill Ely, Tom Hickey, Sven Elven, Wayne Boring, Vin Sullivanscript: Gardner Fox, Bob Kane, Homer Fleming, Jerry Siegel, Bill Ely, Frank Thomasletters: Sheldon Moldoff, Fred Guardineer, Sven Elven

Stories

  • The Return of Doctor Death · 10 pages

    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.

  • Untitled · 1 pages

    Oscar chases after a thief who robs a toy store.

  • Finger of Doom · 6 pages
  • The Dictator of the United States · 6 pages
  • The Old Man and the Kid · 6 pages
  • Shadowed · 1.56 pages
  • The Crossbow Mystery · 6 pages

    Speed investigates the murder of Dustin Rhodes.

  • The Tea Racketeers · 6 pages

    Bruce breaks up a racketeering operation involving the smuggling of tea.

  • The Imperial Insurance Swindle · 6 pages
  • The Granville Insane Asylum · 13 pages

Characters

Bruce WayneBatmanSlam BradleySpeed SaundersShorty MorganBart ReganCosmo, the Phantom of DisguiseBruce NelsonLarry SteeleBuck MarshallDoctor DeathDr. Karl Hellfern

Reprinted in

Batman Archives (1990), The Batman Chronicles (2005), Batman: The Golden Age Omnibus (2015), Batman: The Golden Age (2016)

Run and key data from the Grand Comics Database (comics.org), CC BY-SA 4.0.

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