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Detective Comics (May 1937), #3

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A Stowaway in Need

Story featuring Speed Saunders

Storyline: Speed hires a sloop to go on vacation, but out on the sound finds he has a female stowaway. She is Lora, who has escaped from the clutches of "Spider" Liverman with plans for a typewriter invented by her late brother. Liverman and his two henchmen intercept the boat and smash it. Speed and Lora are captured, but Speed fools the thugs into thinking the boat is sinking. They cast off in a row boat and Speed replaces the plug he had pulled out. They catch up with the crooks and Speed overcomes them.

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The Air-Mail Mystery

Storyline: Hope is called in to investigate the mysterious disappearance of three planes. She boards the next flight out, and, when over the mountains, the motor cuts out. After a rough landing she and the pilot are met by men with guns, the leader of whom tells how he used his Z Ray to cripple the planes. In a bend of the mountain ledge, Littlejohn attacks the leader, and Hope grabs the gun and holds the others at bay. Going through a tunnel, they come out above a cavern with men standing around the Master. Littlejohn wants to escape but Hope insists they find and destroy the Z Ray

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The Kidnapping of Angus MacDonald

Story featuring Cosmo, the Phantom of Disguise

Storyline: As Angus MacDonald, President of the Two Star Steamship Company, is leaving to give a speech to a board meeting, he is abducted by rough looking thugs. Mrs. MacDonald calls Cosmo, famous detective and friend of the family, and he has her postpone the meeting until that afternoon. Cosmo appears in the guise of MacDonald, and one board member is visibly shocked. Cosmo forces him to tell the location of the real MacDonald and reveals a plot by the Seamen's Union to prevent MacDonald from giving his speech.

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The Claws of the Dragon, Part 3

Story featuring Bruce Nelson

Storyline: A bloody Tong war is raging in New York's Chinatown district. On Long Island, Bruce Nelson is held at gunpoint by Joe Stucchi. Nelson overcomes him and hides when he hears the sound of approaching men. Five Asians with long knifes are looking for him. He hides in the roof beams of the summer house and overcomes one of the thugs. A scream from the house sends the others in that direction, and, when Bruce follows, he sees member of the Tong standing over the assassin, Tom Lee. Sigrid's father, Von Holtzendorf, arrives and is clearly in cahoots with the Tong.

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The Wales Case

Storyline: Elmer Bell shoots Jasper Wales but has an iron-clad alibi. After fifty witnesses identify him in court it transpires that he has a twin brother.

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The Nearly-Weds

Story featuring Spy

Storyline: Olga Balinoff is still after the stolen bronze figure, and abducts Sally at her nuptials, knowing that ex-G.I. agent Regan will try to save her.

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Bullets in the Dark

Story featuring Buck Marshall

Storyline: Buck arrests Leary and takes him to the sheriff. Returning to the line shack he is himself captured by ranch foreman Slade, who also brings him to the sheriff, charging him with being one of the rustlers. Leary, in one of the cells accuses Slade of hiring him to rustle cattle.

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Slam Delivers the Message

Story featuring Slam Bradley

Storyline: Slam and Shorty get caught in the middle of a double-cross.

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