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Detective Picture Stories
Date | Number: 2 | Lang: English (en)
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   By Superman
Thanks for sharing. I especially like the Centaur comics!
   By The Ghost Man
This is a great find. Thanks for tracking down and uploading this Platinum-Age gem which completes the series grandly.
   By The Australian Panther
This downloads as a zip file. No complaint, just observation.
   By bromichaelhenry
Thank you very much for this. Now I have a complete collection of the Clock yayyy
   By Starman
Great job - Many thanks !
   By DocQuantum
Very excited. Not only is the last remaining Clock appearance available, but this is the long-sought-after first appearance of the Orchid, the Clock's would-be love interest! Thank you!
  
Additional Information
 
PublicationJanuary 1937 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: monthly
NotesAllison is credited on the contents page.
 
ContentGenre: Adventure
NotesAllison is credited on the contents page.
 
FeaturingContents
CreditsLetters: typeset
 
Comic StoryBaffled by a Flower (7 pages)
SynopsisA 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.
FeaturingThe Clock
ContentGenre: Superhero | Characters: The Clock; The Orchid (introduction)
 
Comic StoryMurder at Midnight (7 pages)
SynopsisColonel Thorndyke is murdered in his home, and the great detective is called in to solve the case.
FeaturingSpurlock and Watkins
ContentGenre: Humor; Detective-mystery | Characters: Spurlock; Watkins; Colonel Thorndyke; Mrs. Thorndyke; Ling
NotesHolmes & Watson style detectives. Humor
 
FeaturingClues Club
ContentGenre: Detective-mystery
NotesLester is credited on the contents page. A previous indexer thought this was signed ES instead of LES, which is understandable as the L is hard to make out because of some hatching, but it is there if you look.
 
Comic StoryThe Trans-Atlantic Murder Mystery (7 pages)
SynopsisWealthy 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.
ContentGenre: Detective-mystery | Characters: Nikolas Gale; Inspector Craig; the Captain; Crimmins
 
Comic StoryThe Master Mind (7 pages)
SynopsisThe Master Mind solves the mystery of the murder of the wealthy Gould in his own home.
FeaturingMaster Mind
ContentGenre: Detective-mystery | Characters: Warren [The Master Mind]; Mrs. Gould; Larson the butler
NotesPage seven is headed "The Solution to the Master Mind Mystery", and has our hero explaining the solution to the case.
 
IllustrationCaught in the Act (2 pages)
ContentGenre: Crime
NotesA two page spread.
 
Comic StoryDiamond of Doom (7 pages)
SynopsisSpeed 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.
FeaturingSpeed Rush
ContentGenre: Detective-mystery | Characters: Speed Rush; O. Fenton; Machine Gun Corson (crook); Rocks McCool (crook)
 
Comic StoryThe Case of The-Lizard (7 pages)
SynopsisBowers is called in on a case of espionage involving military secrets microscopically etched on glass, and transported in the gizzard of lizards.
FeaturingClem Bowers
ContentGenre: Detective-mystery | Characters: Clem Bowers; Dr. Harvey; Angus McKeever; Donovan; Kucharski
 
Text StorySapphire Seas (2 pages)
CreditsPencils:? (2 spot illustrations) | Inks:? (2 spot illustrations) | Letters: typeset
ContentGenre: Adventure | Characters: Captain Eggers; Second Officer Harley; Andy Lauenberg; Miss Foster
 
Comic StoryWharf Rat (7 pages)
SynopsisHunt 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.
FeaturingThurston Hunt
ContentGenre: Detective-mystery | Characters: Thurston Hunt; Tom; Slug Barton (crook); Mike (crook)
 
Comic StoryThe Amateur Murder (7 pages)
SynopsisLilly 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.
ContentGenre: Humor; Detective-mystery | Characters: Lilly Belle Swidge; Whitney D. Le Zard; Norman Rogers
 
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