Comic Title: Detective Comics #19
Publisher: DC (Detective Comics, Inc.)
Address: 480 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY
Cover Date: September 1938
Approx. On Sale Date: August 18, 1938 Copyright Date August 5, 1938
Source: Library of Congress, Periodicals 1938
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: Vincent A. Sullivan

Title: (In Africa)
Pages: 13

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

Writer: Jerry Siegel
Artist: Joe Shuster

Feature Character(s)

• Slam Bradley (last appearance in Detective Comics #18; next appearance in Detective Comics #20)

Supporting Character(s)

• Shorty Morgan (last appearance in Detective Comics #18; next appearance in Detective Comics #20)

Villain(s)

• A race of ape-men, their master, and a tribe of African natives (no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Professor Gladstone and Betty (his daughter; no further appearances)

Comments:
This story was not originally titled.

Synopsis:
Slam rescues a girl from a three-toed ape and its master. The girl, Betty Gladstone, explains that her father is in Africa searching for a city of ape-men. The ape's master was trying to force her to return to Africa with him.

Slam and Shorty join Betty on a trip to Africa to locate her father. On the way, they are again attacked by the ape and its master. Shorty is kidnapped, and soon Slam and Betty are captured too. They are led to the city of ape-men where they meet Professor Gladstone.

The ape master places Slam and Shorty into a pit with Gladstone, then releases a group of apes to attack them. Betty places herself in danger too by jumping into the pit. Slam uses a whip to drag the ape master into the put with them, where the apes kill him. Slam and the others then flee the city to safety.