Comic Title: Detective Comics #92
Publisher: DC (Detective Comics, Inc.)
Address: 480 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY
Cover Date: October 1944
Approx. On Sale Date: August 23, 1944 Copyright Date August 19, 1944
Source: Library of Congress, Periodicals 1944
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: 48
Editor: Jack Schiff

Title: "Case of the Smoking Sign"
Pages: 7

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

Artist: Howard Sherman

Feature Character(s)

• Slam Bradley (last appearance in Detective Comics #91; next appearance in Detective Comics #93)

Supporting Character(s)

• Shorty Morgan (last appearance in Detective Comics #91; next appearance in Detective Comics #93)

Villain(s)

• Red Legs Rister and his gang (Whitey named; no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• A fisherman and his wife (no further appearances)

Synopsis:
Slam notices that a billboard sign is giving off coded smoke signals. When he and Shorty investigate, they are ambushed by a gang of crooks. The crooks try to kill the detectives, but Slam and his partner are rescued by a fisherman.

Slam follows a lead and finds that Red Legs Rister is in police custody across the street from the sign. He suspects that the gang is relaying messages to their boss. Slam then uses the sign to send Red Legs a message of his own. Slam's message convinces the crook to confess, and the gang is captured.