Comic Title: Detective Comics #56
Publisher: DC (Detective Comics, Inc.)
Address: 480 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY
Cover Date: October 1941
Approx. On Sale Date: August 22, 1941 Copyright Date August 19, 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: (No Title)
Pages: 8

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

Artist: Howard Sherman

Feature Character(s)

• Slam Bradley (last appearance in Detective Comics #55; next appearance in Detective Comics #57)

Supporting Character(s)

• Shorty Morgan (last appearance in Detective Comics #55; next appearance in Detective Comics #57)

Villain(s)

• Perry Dare and his men (Pink named; no further appearances)
• A magician (no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Biddle Troxel and Marcia (a playboy and his girlfriend; no further appearances)
• An ambassador and other party guests (no further appearances)

Synopsis:
Slam Bradley stops some hoods from robbing playboy Biddle Troxel. The playboy then hires Slam to be his bodyguard at the party of Perry Dare. Dare is a practical joker that hates Biddle and wants to take his girlfriend Marcia. Slam saves Biddle from another attack, then he catches Dare and his men stealing jewels from the guests.