Comic Title: Detective Comics #51
Publisher: DC (Detective Comics, Inc.)
Address: 480 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY
Cover Date: May 1941
Approx. On Sale Date: March 27, 1941 Copyright Date March 28, 1941
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: (Broadway Opening Night)
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 #50; next appearance in Detective Comics #52)

Supporting Character(s)

• Shorty Morgan (last appearance in Detective Comics #50; next appearance in Detective Comics #52)

Villain(s)

• Roberts (a stage manager; no further appearances)
• Two jewel thieves and Edna (a maid; no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Marla Prescott (a murdered singer; no further appearances)
• Dean Dare and Rastus (an actor and his assistant; no further appearances)
• Lester Pry (a gossip reporter; no further appearances)

Comments:
This story was not originally titled.

Synopsis:
Slam Bradley investigates the murder of broadway singer Marla Prescott. Her boyfriend Dean Dare seems a likely suspect, but Slam has no evidence against him. After stopping two jewel thieves sent by the maid to rob the dead woman's apartment, Slam speaks to gossip reporter Lester Pry. Someone then tries to kill Pry. They fail, and he tells Slam that the stage manager Roberts is Prescott's ex-husband and a sharpshooter. Roberts is caught and confesses to the crime.