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Comics - Ongoing - Detective Comics - Issue #2

DETECTIVE COMICS #2
TITLE: Skyscraper Death

COVER DATE: April, 1938

WRITER: Jerry Siegel
ARTIST: Joe Shuster
INKER: Joe Shuster
EDITORS: Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson
COVER: Creig Flessel

PRICE: $.10 U.S.

CHARACTERS: Slam Bradley; Shorty Morgan

PLOT:
Slam Bradley is arrested for the murder of Pete Graves. Slam had been fighting with Graves before the murder, making him the likely suspect. At the police station a man claiming to be Pete’s lawyer arrives and accuses Slam of the killing.

Slam has Shorty follow the lawyer to a garage. When Shorty is caught, the lawyer and his pals threaten to kill him. Meanwhile, Slam is released on bail only to find Pete’s sister Betty in his apartment with a gun. She tries to kill Slam, but he escapes to meet Shorty at the garage.

When Slam arrives Shorty is already gone. The crooks intend to drop him off a building under construction. Slam follows and rescues Shorty. He then obtains a confession from the lawyer that Pete was killed in order to scare other construction workers into joining a racketeer union. Slam’s name is then cleared of the murder charge.


TITLE: The Sage City Bank Holdup

WRITER: Homer Fleming
ARTIST: Homer Fleming
INKER: Homer Fleming
CHARACTERS: Buck Marshall

PLOT:
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TITLE: The Disappearing Duck

WRITER: Bill Patrick
ARTIST: Bill Patrick
INKER: Bill Patrick
CHARACTERS: Gumshoe Gus

PLOT:
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TITLE: The Peruvian Mine Murders

WRITER: Unknown
ARTIST: Creig Flessel
INKER: Creig Flessel
CHARACTERS: Bret Lawton

PLOT:
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TITLE: Room Fifteen

WRITER: Russell Cole
ARTIST: Russell Cole
INKER: Russell Cole
CHARACTERS: Unknown

PLOT:
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TITLE: The Balinoff Case

WRITER: Jerry Siegel
ARTIST: Joe Shuster
INKER: Joe Shuster
CHARACTERS: Bart Regan, Spy

PLOT:
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TITLE: The Narcotic Ring

WRITER: Unknown
ARTIST: Ed Winiarski
INKER: Ed Winiarski
CHARACTERS: Mr. Chang

PLOT:
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TITLE: The Olive Oil Counterfeiters

WRITER: Sven Elven
ARTIST: Sven Elven
INKER: Sven Elven
CHARACTERS: Cosmo the Phantom of Disguise

PLOT:
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TITLE: The Claws of the Red Dragon

WRITER: Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson
ARTIST: Tom Hickey
INKER: Tom Hickey
CHARACTERS: Bruce Nelson

PLOT:
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