[6] On September 25, 1933, Publishers Syndicate began distributing Dan Dunn as a comic strip that eventually peaked at 135 newspapers.

[7] Saunders and Andriola subsequently replaced Dan Dunn with a new detective strip, Kerry Drake, in 1943.

[13] In 1944, Dan Dunn, Secret Operative #48 was produced as a 15-minute syndicated radio program which ran for a total of 78 episodes.

[14][15] It was produced by Kasper-Gordon, Inc.[16] In 2017, The Library of American Comics reprinted one year of the strip (1933) in their LoAC Essentials line of books.

Markstein calls the square-jawed Detective Dunn an imitation of Dick Tracy, killing criminals with the same direct resort to violence during the gangster era.

[10] In the Toho dub of the Lupin III film The Mystery of Mamo, Daisuke Jigen was given the name of Dan Dunn in the character's honor.