Comic Title: Detective Comics #1
Publisher: DC (Detective Comics, Inc.)
Address: 373 Fourth Avenue, New York, NY
Cover Date: March 1937
Approx. On Sale Date: February 25, 1937 Copyright Date February 10, 1937
Source: Library of Congress, Periodicals 1937
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.

Frequency: Monthly
Cover Price: $0.10
Page Count: 64
Editor: Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson

Notes:
This is the first comic dedicated to a single theme.

Title: (The Streets of Chinatown)
Pages: 13

Feature(s):
Slam Bradley (of Earth-1)

Writer: Jerry Siegel
Artist: Joe Shuster

Reprinted In:
Greatest Golden Age Stories Ever Told HC (1990)
Millennium Edition:Detective Comics 1 (#57) (2001)

Feature Character(s)

• Slam Bradley (a private investigator; first appearance; next appearance in Detective Comics #2)

Supporting Character(s)

• Shorty Morgan (Slam's partner; first appearance; next appearance in Detective Comics #2)

Villain(s)

• Fui Onyui (first appearance; next appearance in Detective Comics #22)
• The celestials (Fui's men; no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Sergeant Kelly (a police officer; next appearance in Detective Comics #2)
• Captain Frawley (a police officer; no further appearances)
• A police telephone operator (no further appearances)
• Rita Carlisle and Mimi (daughter of a chain-store owner and her dog; no further appearances)

Comments:
This story originally was not titled; the title shown here was given on the contents page of Greatest Golden Age Stories Ever Told in which this story is reprinted.

Synopsis:
Slam Bradley, a roughneck private investigator, is summoned by Police Captain Frawley to assist Rita Carlisle. Rita, the daughter of a chain-store owner wants Slam to guard her dog Mimi. Bradley is insulted by the job and rudely refuses her, but he tells Shorty Morgan, an admirer of Slam, to take the job.

Shorty guards the dog while Rita visits Chinatown. When she disappears, Shorty summons Slam to help locate her. Slam finds a secret passage in a china shop, which leads him to Chinatown leader Fui Onyui. Fui has kidnapped Rita, but Slam braves the chinaman’s deathtraps and rescues her. Shorty lays a trap of his own which snares Fui. Slam is impressed and takes Shorty as a partner.