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CATALOG RECORD

Detective Comics #39

DC · Series began 1937 · May 1940

Dates

Cover date
May 1940
On sale
April 5, 1940
Pages
68

Editions and covers

Creators

pencils: Bob Kane, Maurice Kashuba, Ken Ernst, Jack Lehti, Fred Guardineer, Don Lynch, Chad Grothkopf, Whitney Ellsworth, Dennis Neville, Fred Harmaninks: Bob Kane, Jerry Robinson, Maurice Kashuba, Ken Ernst, Jack Lehti, Fred Guardineer, Don Lynch, Chad Grothkopf, Whitney Ellsworth, Dennis Neville, Fred Harmanscript: Bill Finger, Jerry Siegel, Jack Lehti, Chad Grothkopf, Whitney Ellsworthletters: Jerry Robinson, Fred Guardineer, Chad Grothkopf

Stories

  • The Horde of the Green Dragon! · 12 pages

    The kidnapping of two millionaires and the murder (with a hatchet) of a chauffeur leads the Batman into Chinatown to battle the Green Dragon and their dealings in opium.

  • The Chauffeur Spy · 6 pages
  • Cobra on the Loose · 5.5 pages
  • Switch the Switch · 6 pages
  • Gulliver's Travels, by Jonathon Swift · 0.5 pages
  • Stamp Items · 0.25 pages
  • The Case of the Siva Statue · 6 pages
  • Morton Hijacking & Co. · 6 pages
  • Larson's Boy Gets Kidnapped · 6 pages
  • White Trap · 1.33 pages
  • The French Impersonation · 10 pages

Characters

Bruce WayneBatmanDick GraysonRobinThe Crimson AvengerLee TravisWing HowSlam BradleySpeed SaundersShorty MorganBart ReganJulie MadisonSteve MaloneCliff CrosbyRed Logan

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.

Identifiers and aliases from Wikidata (CC0).

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