Comic Title: Detective Comics #74
Publisher: DC (Detective Comics, Inc.)
Address: 480 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY
Cover Date: April 1943
Approx. On Sale Date: February 19, 1943 Copyright Date February 16, 1943
Source: Library of Congress, Periodicals 1943
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: Jack Schiff

Title: "The Adventure of the Wooden Indians"
Pages: 8

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

Artist: Howard Sherman

Feature Character(s)

• Slam Bradley (last appearance in Detective Comics #73; next appearance in Detective Comics #75)

Supporting Character(s)

• Shorty Morgan (last appearance in Detective Comics #73; next appearance in Detective Comics #75)

Villain(s)

• Frank (aka Handle-Bars Haggerty; a cigar store owner; no further appearances)
• Haggerty's gang (no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Creak and Squeek (wealthy business partners; no further appearances)

Synopsis:
Slam and Shorty witness the theft of two cigar store indians. They try to stop the robbery, but fail. The next day the indians are outside the cigar shop again. Slam wonders if the police made a fast recovery, but he soon deduces that the indians have been replaced by costumed crooks. Slam and Shorty are again defeated and locked inside two hollow indians. They are given guns which will fire at a building across the street. Slam tips over his indian to prevent the gun from hitting its target. He and Shorty then apprehend the cigar store owner who is the gang's boss. He was blackmailing two businessmen in the building across the street and using the guns to scare them.