Samuel Emerson 'Slam' Bradley
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Bio: A non-costumed detective-hero, Slam Bradley appeared from the earliest issue of Detective Comics to the mid-40s. He was a kind of proto-Batman in the sense that he tended to follow criminal trails in a more violent way than one would have expected of a Sherlock Holmes. He could easily walk into the pages of Sin CIty today and make Frank Miller proud. Or he could do as he's actually done: come back from a 60-year-old sleep, relocate from Cleveland to Gotham CIty, and fall in love with Catwoman. After a few brief appearances in the eighties, he began appearing regularly again in the pages of Catwoman following the "Trail of the Catwoman" miniseries. Aside from his decades-old commitment to finding criminals the hard way, he's recently been seen vying for the romantic affections of Catwoman, as well as being the narrative character of Darwyn Cooke's Solo outing.
Notes: It has been speculated by many contemporary and modern sources that Slam was replaced by Roy Raymond in the pages of Detective Comics because of the ongoing legal battle DC was having with Slam's creators, Siegel and Shuster. Already embroiled in a fight over Superman, they didn't want the same thing to happen over Slam. As he'd managed to lead Detective for 26 issues before the arrival of Batman, he was certainly a popular character at the time, and his abrupt departure from the book was indeed somewhat suspicious.Some comic scholars posit that he is the original Earth-1 hero, since there's never any evidence in any of his strips to the contrary. A moot point in the post-CRISIS world? Perhaps, but he does probably serve as a prime example of how the terms "Golden Age" and "Earth-2" are not synonymous.
First Appearance: Detective Comics (1937) #1 Favorite Characters:
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Issue Appearances: Action Comics (1938)
#656 - 'Going to Blazes' #743 - 'Operation: Ink!' Batman und Superman präsentieren (2005)
Batman-klassikot (1989)
Batman-Sonderausgabe (1981)
#1 - 'Die Batman-Teams kommen!' Batman: Ego and Other Tails (2007)
HC - 'Batman: Ego and Other Tails' TPB - 'Batman: Ego and Other Tails' Catwoman (2002)
2nd Edition TPB vol. 01 - 'Trail of the Catwoman' TPB vol. 01 - 'The Dark End of the Street' TPB vol. 02 - 'Crooked Little Town' TPB vol. 03 - 'Relentless' TPB vol. 04 - 'Wild Ride' TPB vol. 05 - 'The Replacements' TPB vol. 06 - 'It's Only A Movie' TPB vol. 07 - 'Catwoman Dies' TPB vol. 09 - 'The Long Road Home' #5 - 'Trickle Down Theory' #7 - 'Disguises part two of four' #8 - 'Disguises Part Three Of Four' #9 - 'Disguises part four of four' #10 - 'Joy Ride' #12 - 'Relentless, Part One' #13 - 'Relentless, Part Two' #14 - 'Relentless, Part Three' #15 - 'Relentless, Part Four' #16 - 'Relentless, Part Five' #17 - 'No Easy Way Down, Part One' #18 - 'No Easy Way Down, Part Two' #19 - 'No Easy Way Down, Part Three' #20 - 'Wild Ride, Part One: Other Cats' #22 - 'Wild Ride, Part Three: Meanwhile' #23 - 'Wild Ride, Part Four: Opal at Night' #25 - 'Fire with Fire' #26 - 'A Knife in the Dark' #27 - 'Night Moves' #28 - 'Miss Calculating' #29 - 'Under Pressure' #30 - 'End of the Line' #32 - 'Only Takes a Night' #37 - 'Character Driven' #38 - 'Three Piece Suit, Part One' #39 - 'Three Piece Suit, Part Two' #40 - 'Three Piece Suit, Part Three' #41 - 'Of Cats and Dogs, Part One' #42 - 'Of Cats and Dogs, Part Two' #43 - 'Pest Control' #51 - 'Backward Masking, Part Two' #52 - 'Backward Masking, Conclusion' #53 - '1 Year Later: The Replacements, Part One' #53 (2nd Printing) - '1 Year Later: The Replacements, Part One' #54 - '1 Year Later: The Replacements, Part Two' #55 - '1 Year Later: The Replacements, Part Three' #56 - 'The Replacements, Part Four' #57 - 'The Replacements, Conclusion' #59 - 'It's Only a Movie, Take One' #60 - 'It's Only a Movie, Take Two' #61 - 'It's Only a Movie, Take Three' #62 - 'Sons and Daughters' #67 - 'Catwoman Dies, Part Two' #71 - 'Mother's Day, Part One' #78 - 'The Long Road Home, Part One' #79 - 'The Long Road Home, Part Two' #80 - 'Final Jeopardy, Part 01' Catwoman Secret Files and Origins (2002)
Catwoman: Böse kleine Stadt (2004)
TPB - 'Böse kleine Stadt' Catwoman: Selina's Big Score (2002)
OGN HC - 'Catwoman: Selina's Big Score' Catwoman: The Movie and Other Cat Tales (2004)
TPB - 'Catwoman: The Movie & Other Cat Tales' Cover Run: The DC Comics Art of Adam Hughes (2010)
HC - 'Cover Run: The DC Comics Art of Adam Hughes' Detective Comics (1937)
HC - 'Batman: The Heart of Hush' TPB - 'Batman: The Heart of Hush' #1#2#3#4#5#6#7#8#9#10#11#12#13#14#15#16#17#18#19#20#21#22#23#24#25#26#27 - 'The Case of the Chemical Syndicate' #27 (Digital Edition) - 'The Case of the Chemical Syndicate' #28 - 'Frenchy Blake's Jewel Gang' #29 - 'The Batman Meets Doctor Death' #30 - 'The Return of Doctor Death' #31 - 'Batman Versus The Vampire, Part One' #32 - 'Batman Versus The Vampire, Part Two' #33 - 'The Batman Wars Against The Dirigible Of Doom' #34 - 'Peril In Paris' #35 - 'The Case Of The Ruby Idol' #36 - 'Professor Hugo Strange' #37 - 'The Spies' #38 - 'Introducing Robin, The Boy Wonder' #39 - 'The Horde Of The Green Dragon!' #40 - 'Beware Of Clayface' #41 - 'A Master Murderer' #42 - 'The Case Of The Prophetic Pictures!' #43 - 'The Case Of The City Of Terror' #44 - 'The Land Behind The Light' #45 - 'The Case Of The Laughing Death!' #46 - 'Professor Strange's Fear Dust' #47 - 'Money Can't Buy Happiness' #48 - 'The Secret Cavern' #49 - 'Clayface Walks Again' #50 - 'The Case Of The Three Devils' #51 - 'The Case Of The Mystery Carnival' #52 - 'The Secret Of The Jade Box' #53 - 'Viola Vane' #54 - 'Hook Morgan And His Harbor Pirates' #55 - 'The Brain Burglar!' #56 - 'The Stone Idol!' #57 - 'Twenty-Four Hours To Live' #58 - 'One Of The Most Perfect Frame-Ups' #59 - 'The King Of The Jungle' #60 - 'Case Of The Costume-Clad Killers' #61 - 'The Three Racketeers' #62 - 'Laugh, Town, Laugh' #63 - 'A Gentleman In Gotham' #64 - 'The Joker Walks The Last Mile' #65 - 'The Cop Who Hated The Batman' #66 - 'The Crimes Of Two-Face!' #67 - 'Crime’s Early Bird!' #68 - 'The Man Who Led A Double Life!' #69 - 'The Harlequin's Hoax!' #70 - 'The Man Who Could Read Minds!' #71 - 'Crime A Day!' #72 - 'License For Larceny.' #73 - 'The Scarecrow Returns.' #74 - 'Tweedledum And Tweedledee!' #75#76#77#78#79#82#83#121#124#125#126#130#131#132#133#134#135#136#137#138#139#140 - 'The Riddler' #141 - 'The Gallery Of Public Heroes' #142 - 'Crime's Puzzle Contest' #143 - 'The Pied Piper Of Peril' #144 - 'Kay Kyser's Mystery Broadcast' #145#146#147#148#149#150#151#152#500 - 'To Kill A Legend' #572 - 'The Doomsday Book' #759 - 'Unknowing, Part Two' #760 - 'Unknowing, Part Three' #761 - 'In Thirty Days' #762 - 'Passings' #846 - 'Batman R.I.P.: Heart of Hush, Part 1 of 5: First Families of Gotham' #850 - 'Batman R.I.P.: Heart of Hush, The Conclusion: The Demon in the Mirror' Giant Batman Album (1962)
Gotham Central (2003)
#27 - 'On The Freak Beat Part Two of Two' Identity Crisis (2004)
#1 - 'Chapter One: Coffin' Klassiker der Comic-Literatur (2005)
Legends of the Dark Knight [I] (2012)
#11 - 'Slam! Part 1 of 3' #12 - 'Slam! Part 2 of 3' #13 - 'Slam! Part 3 of 3' Legends of the Dark Knight [II] (2012)
Legends of the Dark Knight: Alan Davis (2012)
Superman (1987)
#44 - 'Green Death in Crime Alley' The DC Comics Encyclopedia (2004)
HC - 'The DC Comics Encyclopedia: Updated And Expanded' HC - 'The DC Comics Encyclopedia' The New York World's Fair Comics (1939)
Who's Who: The Definitive Directory of the DC Universe (1985)
#21 - 'Shrinking Violet to Starfinger' Who's Who: Update '87 (1987)
#5 - 'Reaper to Zymyr plus Appendix' Group Affiliation(s): None. Famous Quotes: - Add a Famous Quote None.
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