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Comics - Ongoing - Detective Comics - Issue #28

DETECTIVE COMICS #28
TITLE: Frenchy Blake’s Jewel Gang

COVER DATE: June, 1939

WRITER: Bill Finger
ARTIST: Bob Kane
INKER: Bob Kane
EDITORS: Vincent A. Sullivan
COVER: Fred Guardineer

PRICE: $.10 U.S.

CHARACTERS: Batman (Bruce Wayne); Commissioner James Gordon

PLOT:
Batman stops a jewel robbery committed by two members of a criminal gang. Batman leaves the scene leading the police to believe he is involved. The gang led by Frenchy Blake pulls another job only to be stopped again by the Caped Crusader. Batman forces Frenchy to sign a confession and leave him for police.


TITLE: Killing by Proxy

WRITER: Homer Fleming
ARTIST: Homer Fleming
INKER: Homer Fleming
CHARACTERS: Buck Marshall

PLOT:
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TITLE: Saboteurs Bob Steamer

WRITER: Jerry Siegel
ARTIST: Joe Shuster
INKER: Joe Shuster
CHARACTERS: Bart Regan, Spy

PLOT:
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TITLE: The Bagilan Ruby

WRITER: Jim Chambers
ARTIST: Jim Chambers
INKER: Jim Chambers
CHARACTERS: Crimson Avenger

PLOT:
When the Bagilan Ruby is stolen, police suspect the gem's owner Lara Fay. Ms. Fay visits the office of Lee Travis claiming the ruby was stolen by a man in a turban. Then thugs break into the office and kidnap Fay and Travis's secretary Miss Blaine. Travis tries to follow them, but he fails.

That evening, Lee searches Fay's apartment as the Crimson Avenger. When Fay turns up unharmed, he begins following her. She leads him to Miss Blaine, but the Crimson is caught by the bandits. Fay is working with the crooks and leaves a snake to finish off the pair. The Crimson turns the snake against his captors, then he flees as police arrive to arrest the men.

TITLE: The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu

WRITER: Sax Rohmer
ARTIST: Leo E. O'Mealia
INKER: Leo E. O'Mealia
CHARACTERS: Dr. Fu Manchu

PLOT:
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TITLE: The New Orleans Mardi Gras Murder

WRITER: Tom Hickey
ARTIST: Tom Hickey
INKER: Tom Hickey
CHARACTERS: Bruce Nelson

PLOT:
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TITLE: The Truxon Hall Fox Hunt

WRITER: Unknown
ARTIST: Sven Elven
INKER: Sven Elven
CHARACTERS: Cosmo the Phantom of Disguise

PLOT:
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TITLE: The Whitethorne Inheritance

WRITER: Jerry Siegel
ARTIST: Joe Shuster
INKER: Joe Shuster
CHARACTERS: Slam Bradley; Shorty Morgan

PLOT:
Slam Bradley is summoned to the home of the late Caleb Whitethorne for the reading of a will. Slam is named the sole heir to Whitethorne's estate providing he survives a night in the house with Whitethorne's family. Several attempts are made to murder Slam and Shorty. Caleb's sister Sadie is killed by an unknown assailant. Slam eventually proves that Caleb's son Ronald killed poisoned his own father, murdered Sadie to silence her, and was attempting to kill Slam. Following his success at catching the killer, Slam donates the inheritance to charity.

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