Issue Details

Issue	#9
Published	November 1937
Cover Price	0.10
Pages	68
Editing	Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson, Vincent Sullivan (associate), Whitney Ellsworth (Associate)

Cover Details

Pencils	Creig Flessel
Inks	Creig Flessel

6 page Speed Saunders story "Case of the Hobo Hero"

Characters	V: Mike Molona, the Mayor (I for both); I: Jake Jones
Genre	detective
Script	Gardner Fox
Pencils	Creig Flessel
Inks	Creig Flessel

6 page Larry Steele story "Mystery of the Wholesale Kidnappings: Part 5"

Characters	V: Dr. Sargoff (I), Sonia Sargoff, Dutch, Squinty
Genre	detective
Script	Will Ely
Pencils	Will Ely
Inks	Will Ely

6 page Cosmo story "Death In the Radio-Studio"

Characters	V: Glasser (I); I: Hal Lane (D)
Pencils	Sven Elven
Inks	Sven Elven
Notes	story in black and white

12 page Bruce Nelson story "The Blood of the Lotus [Part 1]"

Characters	I: Sing Lee, Lois Woodworth, Donald Barnes; V: Philip Pomeroy (I)
Genre	detective
Script	Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson
Pencils	Tom Hickey
Inks	Tom Hickey

6 page text story "Death At Latitude 30"

Script	Whitney Ellsworth (Fredric Wells)
Pencils	Creig Flessel
Inks	Creig Flessel
Letters	typeset

4 page filler "The Johnson Mystery"

Script	Russell Cole (as Alger)
Pencils	Russell Cole (as Alger)
Inks	Russell Cole (as Alger)

4 page Spy story "The Vanishing of R-42"

Characters	I: Agent R-42; V: Talvanian ambassador and spies (I for all)
Genre	adventure
Script	Jerry Siegel
Pencils	Joe Shuster
Inks	Joe Shuster

6 page Buck Marshall story "Silver and Lead"

Characters	V: Bender, Latigo (I for both)
Script	Homer Fleming
Pencils	Homer Fleming
Inks	Homer Fleming
Notes	story in black and white

13 page Slam Bradley story "The Human Fly"

Characters	V: The Human Fly (I); I: Snoop Dolan
Genre	detective
Script	Jerry Siegel
Pencils	Joe Shuster
Inks	Joe Shuster
Notes	title from last issue blurb