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| Additional Information | |
| Name | Detective Picture Stories 2 | Published |
| Publication | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 68 | Frequency: monthly |
| Notes | Data taken from Howard Keltner's Golden age index & the existing GCD index. |
| Cover | 1 page |
| Genre | Adventure |
| Pencils | Bill Allison |
| Inks | Bill Allison |
| Letters | William Cook ? |
| Notes | Allison is credited on the contents page. |
| Credits | No Title (1 page) |
| Feature | Contents |
| Letters | typeset |
| Pencils | George Brenner ? |
| Inks | George Brenner ? |
| Comic Story | Baffled by a Flower / The Clock (7 pages) |
| 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) |
| Script | George Brenner |
| Pencils | George Brenner |
| Inks | George Brenner |
| First Line | The Clock stopped for a day... |
| Comic Story | Murder at Midnight / Spurlock and Watkins (7 pages) |
| 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 |
| Script | John Patterson |
| Pencils | John Patterson |
| Inks | John Patterson |
| First Line | Goodness what was that? |
| Notes | Holmes & Watson style detectives. Humor |
| Activity | No Title (2 pages) |
| Feature | Clues Club |
| Genre | Detective-mystery |
| Script | Charles Lester (signed) |
| Pencils | Charles Lester (signed) |
| Inks | Charles Lester (signed) |
| First Line | Suppose you were a detective! |
| Notes | Lester 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 Story | The Trans-Atlantic Murder Mystery (7 pages) |
| 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 |
| Script | E. F. Webster (signed) |
| Pencils | E. F. Webster (signed) |
| Inks | E. F. Webster (signed) |
| First Line | Aboard the S.S. Gigantic... |
| Comic Story | The Master Mind / Master Mind (7 pages) |
| 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 |
| Script | George Marko |
| Pencils | George Marko |
| Inks | George Marko |
| First Line | Ain't that the guy they call the "Master Mind"? |
| Notes | Page seven is headed "The Solution to the Master Mind Mystery", and has our hero explaining the solution to the case. |
| Illustration | Caught in the Act (2 pages) |
| Genre | Crime |
| Pencils | Bill Allison |
| Inks | Bill Allison |
| Colors | Bill Allison |
| Notes | A two page spread. |
| Comic Story | Diamond of Doom / Speed Rush (7 pages) |
| 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) |
| Script | Phil Richards |
| Pencils | Jim Wilcox |
| Inks | Jim Wilcox |
| First Line | We're going to be murdered, Detective Rush! |
| Comic Story | The Case of The-Lizard / Clem Bowers (7 pages) |
| 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 |
| Script | Victor Dowling |
| Pencils | Victor Dowling |
| Inks | Victor Dowling |
| First Line | Who was that, Clem? |
| Text Story | Sapphire Seas (2 pages) |
| Pencils | ? (2 spot illustrations) |
| Inks | ? (2 spot illustrations) |
| Letters | typeset |
| Genre | Adventure |
| Characters | Captain Eggers; Second Officer Harley; Andy Lauenberg; Miss Foster |
| Script | C. W. Scott |
| Comic Story | Wharf Rat / Thurston Hunt (7 pages) |
| 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) |
| Script | Art Pinajian (signed) |
| Pencils | Art Pinajian (signed) |
| Inks | Art Pinajian (signed) |
| First Line | This Slug Barton... |
| Comic Story | The Amateur Murder (7 pages) |
| 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 |
| Script | Tom McNamara |
| Pencils | Tom McNamara |
| Inks | Tom McNamara |
| First Line | Away out west in San Francisco... |
| The data in the additional content section is courtesy of the Grand Comics Database under a Creative Commons Attribution License. More details about this comic may be available in their page here | |
