Comic Title: Detective Comics #7
Publisher: DC (Detective Comics, Inc.)
Address: 432 Fourth Avenue, New York, NY
Cover Date: September 1937
Approx. On Sale Date: August 26, 1937 Copyright Date August 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: (In Atlantic City)
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 #6; next appearance in Detective Comics #8)

Supporting Character(s)

• Shorty Morgan (last appearance in Detective Comics #6; next appearance in Detective Comics #8)

Villain(s)

• A former hotel employee (no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• George Grayson (a hotel manager; dies in this story; no further appearances)
• Ethel Mann (no further appearances)
• Selma (a maid; no further appearances)

Comments:
This story was not originally titled.

Synopsis:
Slam and Shorty are summoned to the Oceanside Hotel in Atlantic City by manager George Grayson. Before they can learn the purpose of the summons, Grayson turns up dead as victim of a drowning. Slam goes undercover as a lifeguard and learns that three other people have recently drowned.

Slam rescue a woman from drowning who claims she was pulled under by monstrous arms. Shorty is then pulled into the water by a large man. Slam saves Shorty, then returns to investigate. Slam captures the man when he tries to get Ethel again. The killer is revealed as a disgruntled former employee trying to get revenge upon the hotel that fired him.