Detective Comics
#3
(1937-05)
The Speed Saunders comic is basically "Speed gets in a fight on a boat." "The Air-Mail Mystery" looks like an okay setup for a story, though for a heroine, Hope Hazard follows the pilot's lead a bit much. The Cosmo story isn't any good. The third part of "The Claws of the Red Dragon" is okay, but nothing special. Didn't read "Shooting Lesson", a short story. Alger's segment, "The Wales Case", is okay, and quite similar to the previous ones. The story it tells is odd, though–no reason given for Bell killing Jasper Wales. "Spy!" begins with a real attention-grabber. It's not bad. The Buck Marshall story isn't very good. This installment of Slam Bradley is drawn by Jim Bettersworth, rather than Joe Shuster, and it really shows–it's not nearly as good, and both Slam and Shorty look very different. The story seems okay, though.