Issue Details

Issue	#16
Published	June 1938
Cover Price	0.10
Pages	68
Editing	Vincent Sullivan

Cover Details

Pencils	Creig Flessel
Inks	Creig Flessel

6 page Speed Saunders story "The Case of the Missing Corpse"

Characters	Speed Saunders; Mike Bruno (intro, villain); Miss Bannon; Joseph Bannon (flashback)
Genre	detective
Script	Gardner Fox
Pencils	Creig Flessel
Inks	Creig Flessel

1 page filler "Black Tony Barmacino: Dictator of the Dope Dynasty"

Script	Will Ely?
Pencils	Will Ely?
Inks	Will Ely?

6 page Larry Steele story "The Plot to Kill Larry Steele: Part 2"

Characters	Larry Steele; Snow (villain)
Genre	detective
Script	Will Ely
Pencils	Will Ely
Inks	Will Ely

6 page Cosmo story "The National Museum Mystery"

Characters	Cosmo; Korensky (intro, villain)
Pencils	Sven Elven
Inks	Sven Elven
Notes	story in black and white

11 page Bruce Nelson story "Too Many Crooks: Part 3"

Characters	Bruce Nelson; Tony Freeland (intro, villain, death)
Genre	detective
Script	Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson?
Pencils	Tom Hickey
Inks	Tom Hickey

2 page text story "The Tattoo Trap"

Script	Gardner Fox (as Paul Dean)
Letters	typeset

8 page Spy story "A Traitor In Our Midst"

Characters	Spy; Barrow (intro, villain, death); Kleog (intro, villain, death); Mrs. Barrow (intro)
Genre	adventure
Script	Jerry Siegel
Pencils	Joe Shuster
Inks	Joe Shuster

4 page filler "Fingerprint" Farson, the Plain Clothes Man

Characters	"Fingerprint" Farson
Script	Russell Cole
Pencils	Russell Cole (as Alger)
Inks	Russell Cole

6 page Buck Marshall story "Trading Trouble"

Characters	Buck Marshall; Ned Tobin (intro, villain)
Script	Homer Fleming
Pencils	Homer Fleming
Inks	Homer Fleming
Notes	story in black and white

13 page Slam Bradley story "The Broadway Bandit"

Characters	Slam Bradley; Joan Carter (intro); The Broadway Bandit [Boris Desmond] (intro, villain)
Genre	detective
Script	Jerry Siegel
Pencils	Joe Shuster
Inks	Joe Shuster
Notes	title from last issue blurb