Comic Title: Detective Comics #48
Publisher: DC (Detective Comics, Inc.)
Address: 480 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY
Cover Date: February 1941
Approx. On Sale Date: December 31, 1940 Copyright Date December 27, 1940
Source: Library of Congress, Periodicals 1941
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: Fredric Whitney Ellsworth

Title: (No Title)
Pages: 8

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

Writer: Jerry Siegel
Artist: Howard Sherman

Feature Character(s)

• Slam Bradley (last appearance in Detective Comics #47; next appearance in Detective Comics #49)

Supporting Character(s)

• Shorty Morgan (last appearance in Detective Comics #47; next appearance in Detective Comics #49)

Villain(s)

• Mr. Doler (a publisher; no further appearances)
• Doler's thugs (Tiny Ringo, Rocco, and Louie Terry named; no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Ed Ellis and WT Ward (editor of the Morning Blade and a reporter; no further appearances)
• Mr. Newsom (a newspaper editor; no further appearances)
• Guiseppe (a circus showman; no further appearances)

Synopsis:
Slam Bradley is hired by newspaper editor Ed Ellis to help with a mining conditions story. Ellis and report W.T. Ward have been threatened, so Slam and Shorty offer their protection. Slam and Shorty are attacked several times to prevent them from interferring. Shorty is kidnapped, but escapes with the aid of a circus giraffe. Slam eventually exposes the mine owne Mr. Doler, who also owns Ellis's newspaper. After Doler's involvement is exposed, he concedes to improve mine conditions and allows the workers to unionize.