Comic Title: Detective Comics #2
Publisher: DC (Detective Comics, Inc.)
Address: 432 Fourth Avenue, New York, NY
Cover Date: April 1937
Approx. On Sale Date: March 25, 1937 Copyright Date March 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

Title: (Skyscraper Death)
Pages: 13

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

Writer: Jerry Siegel
Artist: Joe Shuster

Reprinted In:
DC's Greatest Detective Stories Ever Told TPB (2021)

Feature Character(s)

• Slam Bradley (last appearance in Detective Comics #1; next appearance in Detective Comics #3)

Supporting Character(s)

• Shorty Morgan (last appearance in Detective Comics #1; next appearance in Detective Comics #3)

Villain(s)

• Members of a racketeering union (Tony and Nick named; no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Sergeant Kelly (last appearance in Detective Comics #1; next appearance in Detective Comics #9)
• Pete Graves (a steel worker; dies in this story; no further appearances)
• Betty (his sister; no further appearances)

Comments:
This story originally was not titled.

Synopsis:
Slam Bradley is arrested for the murder of Pete Graves. Slam had been fighting with Graves before the murder, making him the likely suspect. At the police station a man claiming to be Pete’s lawyer arrives and accuses Slam of the killing.

Slam has Shorty follow the lawyer to a garage. When Shorty is caught, the lawyer and his pals threaten to kill him. Meanwhile, Slam is released on bail only to find Pete’s sister Betty in his apartment with a gun. She tries to kill Slam, but he escapes to meet Shorty at the garage.

When Slam arrives Shorty is already gone. The crooks intend to drop him off a building under construction. Slam follows and rescues Shorty. He then obtains a confession from the lawyer that Pete was killed in order to scare other construction workers into joining a racketeer union. Slam’s name is then cleared of the murder charge.