Police Comics
#24
(November 1943)
Quality Comics,
1941 Series
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 60
- Indicia Frequency
- Monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1943-09-15
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Comic Magazines
- Brand
-
Quality Comic Group
- Editing
- George Brenner (editor)
Issue Notes
Copyright 1943 by Comic Magazines. The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1943, New Series, Vol. 38, No. 4.
[no title indexed]
Plastic Man / cover / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Do you like Plastic Man?
- Genre
- superhero; humor
- Characters
- Plastic Man [Patrick "Eel" O'Brian]
- Reprints
-
in Plastic Man Archives (DC, 1998 series) #2 (2000 [February 2001]) - in Jack Cole and Plastic Man Forms Stretched to Their Limits (Chronicle Books, 2001 series) (August 2001)
-
[The Hundred Plastic Men]
Plastic Man / comic story / 15 pages
- Script
- Jack Cole (signed)
- Pencils
- Jack Cole (signed)
- Inks
- Jack Cole (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Jack Cole (signed)
- Genre
- superhero; humor
- Characters
- Plastic Man [Patrick "Eel" O'Brian]; Woozy Winks; Pinky Flowers (villain, introduction); Louie (villain); Mike (villain); Dr. Phineas T. Gleason (villain, introduction)
- Synopsis
- Woozy briefly gains Plas's powers while a weird doctor creates his own Plastic Men out of reclaimed rubber, controlling them with robotics.
- Reprints
- in Plastic Man Archives (DC, 1998 series) #2 (2000 [February 2001])
-
Indexer Notes
Story is signed "Jack Cole".
[no title indexed]
Dewey Drip / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- And Dewey says: "Please don't send no more home-made medy-cine"...
- Genre
- humor; military
- Characters
- Dewey Drip; Ma Drip; Pappy Drip; Colonel
- Synopsis
- Ma cooks up a "health-food cake" and sends it to Dewey in Army camp. He feeds it to his colonel, hoping to get off garbage duty. His plan fails.
Indexer Notes
Writing credit formerly Joe [Jack] Devlin, who drew but did not write the strip (according to Bails) through 1942. Artist correction from Joe Devlin to Bernard Dibble, who took over in 1943.
[The Kidnapping of Ebony]
The Spirit / comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- The Spirit [Denny Colt]
- Reprints
- from The Spirit (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #11/24/1940 (November 24, 1940)
-
[no title indexed]
Destiny / comic story / 6 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- As Destiny wanders past a low dive...
- Genre
- detective-mystery; superhero
- Characters
- Destiny
[The Amnesiac]
Manhunter / comic story / 10 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- John Cassone (signed as J. Cassone)
- Inks
- John Cassone (signed as J. Cassone)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Manhunter [Dan Richards]
- Synopsis
- Manhunter begins working closely with the Police Department and is given special access to their files.
Strong Man for Hire
Burp the Twerp / comic story / 1 page
- Script
- Jack Cole (signed as Ralph Johns)
- Pencils
- Jack Cole (signed as Ralph Johns)
- Inks
- Jack Cole (signed as Ralph Johns)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Jack Cole (signed as Ralph Johns)
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Burp the Twerp
Sabotage
Dick Mace / text story / 2 pages
- Script
- Robert Hyatt ?
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- detective-mystery; adventure
- Characters
- Dick Mace
[Blackout Burglary]
Flatfoot Burns / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- humor; detective-mystery
- Characters
- Flatfoot Burns
[no title indexed]
Cyclone Cupid / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- It is the night of a concert by Dmitri Ivan Voulashaiavitzky, the world renowned violinist, every celebrity in America has turned out in full force!
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Cyclone Cupid
Indexer Notes
Final appearance. Cyclone Cupid usually appeared in National Comics (Quality Comics, 1940 Series), but the final episode is here in Police Comics.
Hearts and Sluggers
The Human Bomb / comic story / 8 pages
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- The Human Bomb [Roy Lincoln]; Hustace Throckmorton; Honeybun
- Synopsis
- The Human Bomb helps Hustace win back his girlfriend by pitting the weakling against his rival, a boxer.
Indexer Notes
This is Leav. He draws large hands, many lively faces, some panels without backgrounds, and a special way of running with high lifted legs. Compare with his signed story in Wanted Comics #52.
Editing
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Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
["Do you like Plastic Man?"]
Plastic Man -
1.
[The Hundred Plastic Men]
Plastic Man -
2.
["And Dewey says: "Please don't send no more home-made medy-cine"..."]
Dewey Drip -
3.
[The Kidnapping of Ebony]
The Spirit -
4.
["As Destiny wanders past a low dive..."]
Destiny -
5.
[The Amnesiac]
Manhunter -
6.
Strong Man for Hire
Burp the Twerp -
7.
Sabotage
Dick Mace -
8.
[Blackout Burglary]
Flatfoot Burns -
9.
["It is the night of a concert by Dmitri Ivan Voulashaiavitzky, the world renowned violinist, every celebrity in America has turned out in full force!"]
Cyclone Cupid -
10.
Hearts and Sluggers
The Human Bomb
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