Comic Title: Detective Comics #53
Publisher: DC (Detective Comics, Inc.)
Address: 480 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY
Cover Date: July 1941
Approx. On Sale Date: May 29, 1941 Copyright Date May 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 #52; next appearance in Detective Comics #54)

Supporting Character(s)

• Shorty Morgan (last appearance in Detective Comics #52; next appearance in Detective Comics #54)

Villain(s)

• Mr. Evans (a bank employee; no further appearances)
• Lefty Larry and his gang (Weasel named; no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Trueler (a bank president; no further appearances)
• Mrs. Evans (The wife of a bank employee; no further appearances)

Synopsis:
Slam is hired to guard a charity benefit party. He spots a crook trying to steal a necklace. While he goes after the crook, another gang kidnaps a party guest, Mr. Evans, a bank vice-president. Slam tries to track down the kidnappers after his wife and the bank president deliver the ransom. He discovers that Evans staged his own kidnapping in order to use the ransom money to cover the money he stole from the bank. Slam exposes his scheme and is rewarded by the bank president.