Dan Williams
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One of the early comic book eyes was DAN WILLIAMS, who appeared in the pages of Exciting Comics in the 1940's, making his debut in #1. Exciting Comics was a bit of a grab bag, featuring superhero stories, science fiction and action/adventure tales, as well as crime and detective stories. Dan's stories were just one of several on-going back-up features, and his stories invariably ran just seven pages.

Suitably tough, Dan may have owned and operated the "Williams Detective Agency,." but I guess he was never quite "exciting" enough for the publishers to give him a cover spot -- or even an eighth page. after fouteen issues, Dan was turfed out, although the magazine eventually ran for sixty-nine issues.

COMICS

• EXCITING COMICS
  (1940-49, Nedor/Better Publications/Standard Comics)
  Written by
  Art by Ray Lowry, Raymond Thayer
  Dan appeared in a string of stories in the first fourteen issues, billed as "Dan Williams, Private Eye."

  "The Forbes Case" (April 1940, #1)

  "The Knowles case" (May 1940, #2)

  "The Collins Case" (June 1940, #3)

  "The Bootleggers" (July 1940, #4)

  "Titano the Gorilla"" (September 1940, #5)

  "Disaster At the Gold Mine" (December 1940, #6

  "he X-11 Secret" (January 1941, #7)

  "The Cancer Hospital Murders" (February 1941, #8)

  "The Snake Murders of Dr. Zinn" (May 1941, #9)

  "The Construction Site Murders" (June 1941, #10)

  "The Murder of William Morton" (July 1941, #11)

  "The Cuff Link Clue" (September 1941, #12)

  "The Body In the Trunk" (October 1941, #13)

  "The Warehouse Arsonists" (November 1941, #14)

Respectfully submitted by Kevin Burton Smith.