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Issue: Police Comics #14 Public Domain
Publication Date: December 1942
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Issues: #14 of 127 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagQuality Comics
Brand: Quality Comic GroupView Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: Comic Magazines Inc.
On Sale Date: 10/09/1942
Volume: none
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 12 (11 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
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, 1942, New Series, Vol. 37, 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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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Plastic Man [Patrick "Eel" O'Brian]; Chic Carter (inset); The Human Bomb [Roy Lincoln] (inset); #711 [Daniel Dyce] (inset); Manhunter [Dan Richards] (inset); The Spirit [Denny Colt] (inset)
First Line: Starring Plastic Man sensational, exciting, different!
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagPlastic Man Archives #1 [First Printing] published February 1998
as Cover - Police Comics #14 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Oh, Plastic Man!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Plastic Man [Patrick "Eel" O'Brian]; Woozy Winks; Captain Murphey [aka Captain Murphy]; Officer Mike
Synopsis: Woozy and Plastic Man set out to capture Eel O'Brian, but, in the end, Plas convinces Officer Murphey to releasing Woozy into his custory..
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagDC 100-Page Super Spectacular #DC-8 published January 1972
as Oh Plastic Man! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagBatman #238 published January 1972
as Oh, Plastic Man! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagPlastic Man Archives #1 [First Printing] published February 1998
as Oh, Plastic Man! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 13
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The Mark of the Cobra

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Manhunter [Dan Richards]; Thor; Sergeant Clancy; The Cobra [Hal Kant] (villain, introduction); King (villain, the Cobra's pet snake)
Synopsis: The producer at the opera is bumped off by a poisonous spring needle in his opera seat. The evil masked Cobra, and his pet King (which manages to tag Manhunter), turn to leave when Thor charges them and is shot by the Cobra's men. The snake, having used most of its venom on his first victim, couldn't stop the wounded, bleeding dog from crawling over to his master and reviving him, who then unmasked the Cobra in the dark after he had ambushed the Police.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 10
Disclose Notes: Hal Kant named after comics editor Hal Kanter.

Originally credited to Jim Mooney, but he has rounder and more relaxed faces than this, as in Tales of the Unexpected #35. The staring, scary eyes can be none other than Vernon Henkel. Also the very thin and broad hat brims are his, only the inking is different. Compare with his signed Chic Carter story in this issue.
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Human Bomb [Roy Lincoln]; Mr. Chameleon [Professor Thorndyke] (villain, introduction, death)
First Line: The elements... 96 different true substances, necessary to our very existence...
Synopsis: Roy's former chemistry teacher goes mad and invents an invisibility cloak and a disintegrating light gun. He attacks the Human Bomb as the Chameleon and dies when he accidentally touches Roy's bare skin.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: The Human Bomb is now out of the Navy.

The Quality Companion states Gustavson created the strip and wrote it.
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
First Line: I've got you, Philthy Phil
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Eldas Thayer

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Spirit [Denny Colt]; Eldas Thayer (villain)
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagThe Spirit #7/21/1940 [Baltimore Sunday Sun] published July 1940
was Eldas Thayer [Story on Interior Page(s) with IFC and Front Cover]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
First Line: Red Pastrami, former gangster, today opened a restaurant
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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The Escape of Goon McGirk

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, crime, superhero
Character(s): #711 [Daniel Dyce] (death); Goon McGirk (villain, inmate); Oscar Jones (villain, inmate, racketeer)
Synopsis: Dyce's carelessness ultimately leads to his demise at the hands of racketeer, Oscar Jones, who shoots and kills #711. Jone's ignonoble life and how his prison stay leads him to fisticuffs with #711, in which Jones wins out only with the benefit of his gun. Even after the first shot, the wounded Dyce fights to rally, but is eventually cut down with more shots that riddle his body.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: #711 was killed off just before Brenner was made an editor at Quality Comics.
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Who Killed Jed Hathaway?

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: mystery
Character(s): Dick Mace
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
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Enter Julio

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: mystery
Reprinting
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Character(s): Dewey Drip
First Line: My cousin, Whiskers, is on his way to visit Dewey...
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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The West Point Incident

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Phantom Lady [Sandra Knight]; Priscilla Knight (Sandra's spinster Aunt); Major Atchinson (commander at West Point); Mr. Schott (villain); Dippy (villain)
Synopsis: Phantom Lady must stop a group of foreign agents, who are lacing soldiers' stew at West Point with Mickey Finns.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagRoy Thomas Presents Classic Phantom Lady Softee #1 published January 2013
as The West Point Incident [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagRoy Thomas Presents Classic Phantom Lady #1 published February 2013
as The West Point Incident [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6

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