Comic Title: Detective Comics #61
Publisher: DC (Detective Comics, Inc.)
Address: 480 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY
Cover Date: March 1942
Approx. On Sale Date: January 23, 1942 Copyright Date January 20, 1942
Source: Library of Congress, Periodicals 1942
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 #60; next appearance in Detective Comics #62)

Supporting Character(s)

• Shorty Morgan (last appearance in Detective Comics #60; next appearance in Detective Comics #62)

Villain(s)

• Lang (editor of the Meteor; no further appearances)
• Chandra Chun (a fortune teller; no further appearances)
• Chun's henchmen (no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Tom Hogan (editor of the Bugle; no further appearances)
• Warren (editor of the Globe; no further appearances)
• T.J. Martin (a banker; no further appearances)

Comments:
This story was not titled.

Synopsis:
Slam and Shorty are hired by the editors of rival newspapers to find evidence against a phony fortune teller Chandra Chun. Even after exposing a fake ghost at one of Chun's seances, Slam and Shorty are thrown out of the temple by the psychic's customers. The next day, they visit banker T.J. Martin, who admits that Chun is blackmailing him using a phony confession to a crime that Martin did not commit. Slam then returns to the temple, gags and binds Chun, and replaces him at the next seance. Slam and Shorty then trick Chun's boss into confessing to the blackmail scheme. The boss is Lang, one of the newspaper men that hired Slam in the first place.