Comic Title: Detective Comics #143
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: January 1949
Approx. On Sale Date: November 24, 1948 Copyright Date November 22, 1948
Source: Library of Congress, Periodicals 1948
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.

Cover Price: $0.10
Page Count: 48
Editor: Jack Schiff

Title: "Low Man on a Barber Pole"
Pages: 6

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

Artist: Howard Sherman

Feature Character(s)

• Slam Bradley (last appearance in Detective Comics #142; next appearance in Detective Comics #144)

Supporting Character(s)

• Shorty Morgan (last appearance in Detective Comics #142; next appearance in Detective Comics #144)

Villain(s)

• Butch and his men (no further appearances)

Synopsis:
Shorty visits a barber shop to have a trim, but the barber shaves him bald. When Shorty gets upset and tries to leave the shop, the barber and two thugs try to stop him. Slam arrives to helps Shorty and discovers a diagram on Shorty's head. Slam deduces that the crooks were looking for the diagram which is a secret treasure map left by their former boss. Slam and Shorty defeat the crooks, then Slam shaves the barber. The real treasure map is located on his head. The one on Shorty's head was a fake left by the barber to double-cross his partners.