Comic Title: Detective Comics #44
Publisher: DC (Detective Comics, Inc.)
Address: 480 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY
Cover Date: October 1940
Approx. On Sale Date: September 3, 1940 Copyright Date August 30, 1940
Source: Library of Congress, Periodicals 1940
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 #43; next appearance in Detective Comics #45)

Supporting Character(s)

• Shorty Morgan (last appearance in Detective Comics #43; next appearance in Detective Comics #45)

Villain(s)

• Peroni and his gang (Two-Card Mattucci, Rockey Trini, and Bill named; racketeers; no further appearances)
• Paul Erich (the son of H.W. Erich; no further appearances)
• Billings (a bodyguard; no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• H.W. Erich and Marda (a wealthy man and his daughter; no further appearances)
• Hennesey (a policeman; no further appearances)

Synopsis:
Slam and Shorty prevent a woman from being kidnapped, but the intended victim then disappears. They follow clues to the home of H.W. Erich, a wealthy man. On the way they are ambushed by crooks. They eventually reach their destination and learn that the woman is Marda Erich, H.W.'s daughter. Slam and Shorty are invited to dinner. Then begin to suspect that Marda's bodyguard Billings and her brother Paul are involved in the kidnapping plot.

Slam and Shorty stop another kidnapping attempt. This time they catch the crooks who are part of the Peroni Mob. With the gang apprehended, the plot is foiled, and the villains exposed. Paul Erich owed Peroni money from gambling debts, so he set up his sister for ransom. As Slam suspected, Billings the bodyguard was also involved.