Comic Title: Sensation Comics #38
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: February 1945
Approx. On Sale Date: December 6, 1944 Copyright Date December 2, 1944
Source: Library of Congress, Periodicals 1945
Until 1958 DC did not report actual on sale dates to the copyright office
The publication dates listed in LoC records are NOT release dates.

Cover Price: $0.10
Page Count: 48
Contains: Ownership Statement
Editor: Sheldon Mayer

Title: "Vandals Desecrate Churches"
Pages: 8

Feature(s):
Gay Ghost

Artist: Jon L. Blummer

Feature Character(s)

• Gay Ghost (last appearance in Sensation Comics #33; no further appearances)

Villain(s)

• Larry and the Checkers (a juvenile gang; no further appearances)
• Haytler and his men (Miller, Schiller, and Hassenfeffer; no further appearances)
• Spike (dies in this story; no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• The Nixies (spirits of former gangsters; no further appearances)
• Larry's mother and father (imaginary appearance)

Synopsis:
Several churches are vandalized by a juvenile gang known as the Checkers. The Gay Ghost investigates and discovers the boys are being manipulated by a group of adults. He counsels the Checkers' leader Larry, showing him the error of his ways. Larry reforms and convinces the rest of the gang to turn themselves in. The Gay Ghost also apprehends the adults who put the boys up to the vandalization.