Comic Title: Detective Comics #50
Publisher: DC (Detective Comics, Inc.)
Address: 480 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY
Cover Date: April 1941
Approx. On Sale Date: February 27, 1941 Copyright Date February 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: (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 #49; next appearance in Detective Comics #51)

Supporting Character(s)

• Shorty Morgan (last appearance in Detective Comics #49; next appearance in Detective Comics #51)

Villain(s)

• Arla Thomas and Louis (an actress and her assistant; no further appearances)
• Rollo Swain and several thugs (no further appearances)
• Jeff Josephs (an insurance investigator; no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Mr. Chalmers (an insurance agent; no further appearances)

Synopsis:
Slam and Shorty try to stop a thief that has robbed actress Arla Thomas. The thief escapes, so Arla reports the jewels as stolen to the insurance company. Slam and Shorty join the insurance investigation team and are attacked by thugs. They follow clues that lead them to Rollo Swain, an associate of Thomas who stole the jewels. They learn that Swain, Thomas, and insurance investigator Jeff Josephs were all working together on a fraud scheme to cheat the insurance company.