Digital Comic Museum - Detective Picture Stories 002 [digicam]


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Issue: #2
Published: January 1937, Price: 0.10 USD, Pages: 68, Editing:
Color: Color Dimensions: Standard Pre-Golden Age U. S. Paper Stock: Glossy Cover; Newsprint Interior Binding: Saddle-stitched Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series
Notes: Data taken from Howard Keltner's Golden age index & the existing GCD index.

Comic Contents:

Cover (1 page)
Genre:	Adventure

Comic Story (7 pages)	Baffled by a Flower
Synopsis:	A woman calling herself The Orchid is sitting behind a blonde man on an open-topped bus, when she notices brown hairs growing on the back of his nexk. She writes a note, which he picks up, stating she knows he is The Clock and to meet her at a specific time and place. Thinking this might lead to a romantic encounter, he attends and helps rescue her from a band of thugs, but she disappears into the night.
Genre:	Superhero
Characters:	The Clock The Orchid (introduction)

Comic Story (7 pages)	Murder at Midnight
Synopsis:	Colonel Thorndyke is murdered in his home, and the great detective is called in to solve the case.
Genre:	Humor Detective-mystery
Characters:	Spurlock Watkins Colonel Thorndyke Mrs. Thorndyke Ling

Comic Story (7 pages)	The Trans-Atlantic Murder Mystery
Synopsis:	Wealthy Nikolas Gale is murdered aboad the liner S.S. Gigantic, two days out of Southampton, England, and the fabulous Rajah Diamond stolen. Inspector Craig, on vacation, is also aboard and brings the murderer to justice.
Genre:	Detective-mystery
Characters:	Nikolas Gale Inspector Craig The Captain Crimmins

Comic Story (7 pages)	The Master Mind
Synopsis:	The Master Mind solves the mystery of the murder of the wealthy Gould in his own home.
Genre:	Detective-mystery
Characters:	Warren [The Master Mind] Mrs. Gould Larson The Butler

Comic Story (7 pages)	Diamond of Doom
Synopsis:	Speed Rush, "hard-boiled Ace of the private detectives", is called in by Fenton, who is charged by the Rajah of Dewar to cut the famous Dewar Diamond, worth half a million dollars. International diamond thief Rocks McCool steals the gem at gunpoint, and takes Rush and Fenton aboard a ship, intending to encase them in cement and drop them overboard. But Rush disarms one of the crooks and holds the others at gunpoint until the arrival of the Coast Guard.
Genre:	Detective-mystery
Characters:	Speed Rush O. Fenton Machine Gun Corson (crook) Rocks McCool (crook)

Comic Story (7 pages)	The Case of The-Lizard
Synopsis:	Bowers is called in on a case of espionage involving military secrets microscopically etched on glass, and transported in the gizzard of lizards.
Genre:	Detective-mystery
Characters:	Clem Bowers Dr. Harvey Angus McKeever Donovan Kucharski

Comic Story (7 pages)	Wharf Rat
Synopsis:	Hunt and Tom are looking for Slug Barton and his gang of thieves on the waterfront, but are themselves captured. Managing to escape, they pursue Barton and Hunt shoots him.
Genre:	Detective-mystery
Characters:	Thurston Hunt Tom Slug Barton (crook) Mike (crook)

Comic Story (7 pages)	The Amateur Murder
Synopsis:	Lilly Belle rejects Le Zard's proposal of marriage in favor of Norman Rogers. Le Zard murders Rogers, staging it to look like a suicide, but still has no luck gaining her affections. Eventually, proof of the murder takes Le Zard to the electric chair.
Genre:	Humor Detective-mystery
Characters:	Lilly Belle Swidge Whitney D. Le Zard Norman Rogers

The data in the above section is courtesy of the Grand Comics Database™ under a Creative Commons Attribution License.