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Issue: Police Comics #22 Public Domain
Publication Date: September 1943
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Issues: #22 of 127 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagQuality Comics
Brand: Quality Comic GroupView Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: Comic Magazines
On Sale Date: 07/09/1943
Volume: none
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 12 (11 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): George Brenner
Disclose 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.
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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:  
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The Eyes Have It!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): Jack Cole
Inker(s): Jack Cole
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Plastic Man
Character(s): Plastic Man [Patrick "Eel" O'Brian]; The Spirit [Denny Colt] (inset)
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagPlastic Man Archives #2 published February 2000
as Cover - Police Comics #22 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes: in Jack Cole and Plastic Man: Forms Stretched To Their Limits! (Chronicle Books LLC, 2001 series) nn (2001)
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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The Eyes Have It!

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 [Patrick "Eel" O'Brian]; Woozy Winks; Chief Branner (first use of name); Bright Eyes (introduction); The Sphinx (villain, introduction, death); Mr. Grimley (villain, introduction, flashback); Mrs. Grimley (villain, introduction, flashback)
Synopsis: Chief Branner denies Plastic Man the right to help a little mute boy named Bright Eyes, who is being held prisoner by his own disfigured father, the Sphinx, who uses the boy's persuasive eyes to get away with murder. Only his father's death allows the boy to speak again and tell of the abuse he has suffered at his father's hands.
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In Content Item: FlagPlastic Man Archives #2 published February 2000
as The Eyes Have It! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagJack Cole and Plastic Man Forms Stretched to Their Limits #[nn] published August 2001
as The Eyes Have It! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 15
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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; Ma Drip; Pappy Drip; General
First Line: Wait'll Ma hears ah been transferred to a camp only five miles fum here!
Synopsis: Dewey goes home on leave, but Pappy "borrows" his uniform and gets in a brawl with the General. Dewey is blamed.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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The Morger Boys

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]; Morger Boys (villains)
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagThe Spirit #8/18/1940 [Philadelphia Record] published August 1940
was The Morger Boys [Story on Interior Page(s) with IFC and Front Cover]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
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The Human Bomb and the Bombardiers!

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]; The Bombardiers [Montague T. McGurk [aka Curley]; Swordo; Miss Red Rogers] (last appearance for all)
Synopsis: The Human Bomb and the Bombadiers journey to Japanese-occupied China, where they busted up another nest of Japanese and free another prisoner.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: The Quality Companion states Gustavson created the strip and wrote it.

Last story written by Paul Gustavson, who went on to write Midnight, formerly written by Jack Cole.
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): John Cassone (signed)
Inker(s): John Cassone (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Manhunter
Character(s): Manhunter [Dan Richards]
First Line: Dr. Sackville decided he could ignore the criminal laws of man and society!
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 10
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On the Beach

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, The Super So-An-So...
Character(s): Burp the Twerp; Mrs. Slime (Sloozy's mother, death); three crooks [Sloozy Slime; others unnamed] (villains)
Synopsis: Sloozy Slime bets Burp $1 that he can commit a crime in five hours and that Burp cannot solve it. But boastful Burp says he can and makes the bet one zillion dollars and catches Sloozy in the act of killing his own mother. Not wanting Sloozy to lose the bet, Mrs. Slime suggests a place where Sloozy can peacefully kill her, which he does. Burp solves the crime......but is so tender-hearted, that he doesn't arrest Sloozy or take the money.
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Reprint Notes: in Jack Cole and Plastic Man: Forms Stretched To Their Limits! (Chronicle Books LLC, 2001 series) nn (2001)
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Jack Keller ?
Inker(s): Jack Keller ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: mystery, superhero
Feature(s): Destiny
Character(s): Destiny
First Line: Greed is the single greatest cause of man's misery1
Synopsis: Destiny is twice transported to Death Valley, where he finds himself amid the discovery of a hidden treasure. During a fight with one of the thieves, Destiny forces the gun towards his quarry's own face, and the villain is shot in the mouth.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
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Curtain of Death

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
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
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Submarine Sabotage

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Rudy Palais
Inker(s): Rudy Palais
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Phantom Lady
Character(s): Phantom Lady [Sandra Knight]; The Raven [Tony Grey] (cameo); Spider Widow [Dianne Grayton] (cameo); Senator Knight; unnamed sub Captain; unnamed saboteur (villain)
Synopsis: Senator Knight and other officials are taking a maiden voyage in the new super submarine, and invite Phantom Lady to go with them. They do not know, however, that one of the crew members has been replaced by a saboteur, who releases a deadly gas into the sub.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagRoy Thomas Presents Classic Phantom Lady Softee #1 published January 2013
as Submarine Sabotage [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagRoy Thomas Presents Classic Phantom Lady #1 published February 2013
as Submarine Sabotage [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Continued from Feature Comics #70 (August 1943).
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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: At police headquarters...
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Termite of Terror

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Al Stahl
Penciller(s): Al Stahl
Inker(s): Al Stahl
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, mystery
Feature(s): Flatfoot Burns
Character(s): Flatfoot Burns
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6

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