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Issue: Police Comics #17 Public Domain
Publication Date: March 1943
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Issues: #17 of 127 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagQuality Comics
Brand: Quality Comic GroupView Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: Comic Magazines, Inc.
On Sale Date: 01/12/1943
Volume: none
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 12 (11 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): John Beardsley
Disclose Notes: Copyright 1942 by Comic Magazines, Inc.

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. 2.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Golden Age US
Paper Stock: glossy covers; newsprint interiors
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
Format Notes:  
Disclose Reprinted In7
Disclose Reprinted From1
reprinted from a Content Item in another Issue.
Disclose Images1
Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Jack Cole (signed)
Inker(s): Jack Cole (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Plastic Man
Character(s): Plastic Man [Patrick "Eel" O'Brian]; The Spirit [Denny Colt]
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagPlastic Man Archives #1 [First Printing] published February 1998
as Cover - Police Comics #17 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Jack Cole
Penciller(s): Jack Cole
Inker(s): Jack Cole
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Jack Cole
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Plastic Man
Character(s): Plastic Man [Eel O'Brian]; Woozy Winks; Director Steinmetz (dies); Gar Crochett; Dave (dies); Mrs. Dave; Stanley Vane
First Line: Lock your doors! Draw the shades! And grab a pencil, dear reader!
Synopsis: Plas and Woozy go to a haunted mansion to solve a murder mystery.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagPlastic Man Archives #1 [First Printing] published February 1998
as Murder in Maniac Mansion [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 13
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Red-Haired Kate

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Al Bryant ?
Inker(s): Al Bryant ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Manhunter
Character(s): Manhunter [Dan Richards]; Red Haired Kate (villain, introduction)
Synopsis: Manhunter runs into a killer vamp who carries a whip.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagVixens, Vamps & Vipers #[nn] published January 2014
as Red-Haired Kate [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 10
Disclose Notes: Manhunter appears in the story without a mask and the shorts he wore in #15-16 are oddly not present.
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Bernard Dibble ?
Penciller(s): Bernard Dibble
Inker(s): Bernard Dibble
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Dewey Drip
Character(s): Dewey Drip; Sergeant; General; Kelly
First Line: You guys are gonna show the general what you've learned about camouflage!
Synopsis: While his fellow soldiers disguise themselves as trees and bushes, Dewey puts on a giant woodpecker costume as camouflage.
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Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Have You Seen Him?

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): George Brenner [as George E. Brenner] (signed)
Penciller(s): George Brenner [as George E. Brenner] (signed)
Inker(s): George Brenner [as George E. Brenner] (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: mystery, superhero
Feature(s): Destiny
Character(s): Destiny; Oscar Jones (villain)
Synopsis: Destiny, relaxing in his comfortable and spacious home, suddenly is put upon by the killer of 711, Oscar Jones. When he attempts to enter his "trance" state and disappear, he discovers that he has remained in place. Laying in wait for Destiny, Jones grazes Destiny with a bullet, then escapes to go on a killing spree. In the end, Jones is captured and 711 is avenged.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
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The Black Widow

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Jack Cole
Penciller(s): Jack Cole
Inker(s): Jack Cole
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Jack Cole
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Burp the Twerp
Character(s): Burp the Twerp
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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The Orphans

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Will Eisner
Penciller(s): Will Eisner
Inker(s): Will Eisner
Colorist(s): Joe Kubert
Letterer(s): Sam Rosen
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): The Spirit
Character(s): The Spirit [Denny Colt]
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagThe Spirit #8/25/1940 [Washington DC Sunday Star] published August 1940
was The Orphans [Story on Interior Page(s) with IFC and Front Cover]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
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Mystery of the Black Cat!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Frank Borth (signed)
Inker(s): Frank Borth (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Phantom Lady
Character(s): Phantom Lady [Sandra Knight]; Senator Knight; Don Borden; Carl (death); two un-named thugs (villains)
Synopsis: Sandra is reading Edgar Allan Poe's classic "Black Cat" to some dinner guests when the cry of a cat is heard outside, and when one of the guests investigates, he is killed and lies on the ground with claw marks on his face. Phantom Lady discovers that two thugs, hired by the Nazis, were attempting to plant a bomb in Senator Knight's home.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagDC 100-Page Super Spectacular #DC-10 published March 1972
as Mystery of the Black Cat [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagAdventure Comics #416 published March 1972
as Mystery of the Black Cat! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagRoy Thomas Presents Classic Phantom Lady Softee #1 published January 2013
as Mystery of the Black Cat! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagRoy Thomas Presents Classic Phantom Lady #1 published February 2013
as Mystery of the Black Cat! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
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Chic Carter and the Voice from the Grave!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Vernon Henkel
Penciller(s): Vernon Henkel
Inker(s): Vernon Henkel
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: mystery
Feature(s): Chic Carter
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
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The Madman

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Robert Hyatt ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: mystery
Feature(s): Dick Mace
Character(s): Dick Mace
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1.8
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Gill Fox
Penciller(s): Gill Fox
Inker(s): Gill Fox
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Gill Fox ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Super Snooper
First Line: Say, you little runt where is Ten Grove Street?
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Paul Gustavson
Penciller(s): Paul Gustavson
Inker(s): Paul Gustavson
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Paul Gustavson
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): The Human Bomb
Character(s): The Human Bomb [Roy Lincoln]; Hustace Throckmorton; Olaf Olson (newspaperman); Lars Larson (newspaperman)
First Line: Olaf Olson and Lars Larson are two reporters from Missouri --
Synopsis: When newspapermen Olson and Larson get a picture of Roy Lincoln donning the uniform of the Human Bomb, Hustace decides to throw the newsmen off the trail by pretending he is the Human Bomb and destroying property with his powers.
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: The Quality Companion states Gustavson created the strip and wrote it.

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