Comic Title: Detective Comics #8
Publisher: DC (Detective Comics, Inc.)
Address: 432 Fourth Avenue, New York, NY
Cover Date: October 1937
Approx. On Sale Date: September 28, 1937 Copyright Date September 10, 1937
Source: Library of Congress, Periodicals 1938
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: Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson

Title: (The Hillbillies)
Pages: 13

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

Writer: Jerry Siegel
Artist: Joe Shuster

Feature Character(s)

• Slam Bradley (last appearance in Detective Comics #7; next appearance in Detective Comics #9)

Supporting Character(s)

• Shorty Morgan (last appearance in Detective Comics #7; next appearance in Detective Comics #9)

Villain(s)

• Zeke Willis (a hillbilly bank robber; no further appearances)
• Lem Willis (no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Lucy Belle Willis and the Tollivers (no further appearances)

Comments:
This story was not originally titled.

Synopsis:
Slam Bradley stops a bank robbery by hillbilly Zeke Willis. The crook escapes from jail a short time later and heads back to Kentucky. Slam and Shorty follow him. They soon meet the Tollivers, a family of hillbillies feuding with Willis and his clan. The Tollivers agree to help Slam since he intends to arrest Willis.

Shorty is kidnapped by Willis and held at gunpoint. Shorty tries to escape by pretending to fall for Zeke's daughter Lucy Belle. Zeke then tries to force Shorty to marry her. Shorty refuses. Slam arrives just in time to stop Zeke from lynching his diminutive partner. Slam and Shorty then return to Cleveland with Willis as their prisoner.