Slam Bradley
Slam Bradley is the title of a comic book series that is published since 1937, with interruptions of the U.S. DC -Verlag.
The series follows the adventures of private detective Slam Bradley, who in his appearance and his character the " hard-boiled detectives ," the so-called "Black Series " as Dashiell Hammett's Sam Spade ( "The Maltese Falcon" ) or Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe ( " The Big Sleep " ) is very similar. The vast majority of the stories are so far appeared under the " Slam Bradley " title is accordingly assigned to the genre of "Crime comics ".
Publications on Slam Bradley
The first " Slam Bradley " story appeared in Detective Comics # 1 in March 1937.: This story by the author Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster artist, designed, which are thus the creator of the character as well as the series " Slam Bradley". Both were less than a year later made world famous by the comic book character Superman created by them.
The Adventures of Slam Bradley published from 1937 to October 1949 as a permanent feature in Detective Comics. After a total of 152 issues of the series Bradley stories " had included was " " replaced. During seal most of the " Roy Raymond, TV Detective Slam Bradley " # 153 in favor of the new features in Detective Comics " Slam Bradley wrote "stories, except that A few early stories of Shuster visualized: the majority of the stories of the series were designed by artists such as Jack Farr and Martin Naydel as an author, teamed up in the later years in addition to seal especially Howard Sherman forth. .
In the 1990s, Bradley was temporarily as a minor character in the series " Superman" - where he is a freelance police investigator was employed from Superman's home town - used before, from 2001 in the series " Catwoman " a supporting role as a partner and lover of the heroine a crafty burglar played.
Most recently, in the fifth edition of the series " Solo ", 2006, for the first time again after more than fifty years - published solo adventures to Slam Bradley - designed by Darwyn Cooke. Prior to 2003/2004 was titled " The New Frontier " already a miniseries appeared in the Bradley and the detective John Jones - behind which the disguised Martian J'onn J'onzz hides - work together to solve a tricky case.
Title character and action
The title character of Slam Bradley is a private investigator who is called by its full name Samuel Emerson Bradley. It has the standard to own properties to the type of private detective of the " hard-boiled novels": he is a " tough cookie " who knows how to fist fights and brawls, has a passion for beautiful women and high-proof drinks and with the representatives of the police has strained relationship.
Bradley operates legally obligatory a fairly successful private firm in their dingy premises repeatedly arrive clients to entrust him with cases. Supported in solving his cases Bradley is in the stories of the 1930s and 1940s by his junior partner " Shorty" Morgan, a pudgy, pfankuchengesichtigen young man who acted primarily as a " comic relief character ". A recurring element in the investigation of cases is the creation of elaborate disguises, in order to determine " undercover" can. Bradley's own clothing consists of the typical contemporary detective attributes suit and fedora hat. Among the villains of the series itself did especially Fui Onyui, a rampant in the 1930s in the U.S. fear of the Yellow Peril embodying Chinese, which resembled the famous Fu Mnachu.
While the earliest Slam Bradley stories play in Cleveland, later stories, especially in New York City are located. Still later in the fictional cities Metropolis and Gotham City, home to the cities of Superman and Batman, the two most successful characters of Bradley Publisher DC Comics.
In written by Ed Brubaker Catwoman series of the early 2000s is revealed, the Bradley a son, Sam Bradley Jr., who, together with the thief Catwoman - had ironically also entertain with the Bradley a romance - a daughter Helena Kyle testifies and the old Bradley thus brought a granddaughter.