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Issue: Police Comics #26 Public Domain
Publication Date: January 1944
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Issues: #26 of 127 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagQuality Comics
Brand: Quality Comic GroupView Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: Comic Magazines
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: none
Pages: 60
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 12 (10 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: Copyright 1943 by Comic Magazines.
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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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Plastic Man Battles Body, Mind and Soul!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Plastic Man [Patrick "Eel" O'Brian]; Pike Ronan
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagPlastic Man Archives #2 published February 2000
as Cover - Police Comics #26 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Body, Mind and Soul

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Plastic Man [Patrick "Eel" O'Brian]; Woozy Winks; Chief Branner; Randy Ronan (introduction); Vida (introduction); Pike Ronan (villain, introduction, a werewolf, death); Slugger Crott (villain, introduction); Hoppy (villain, introduction); Brains (villain, introduction); Butch (villain, introduction)
Synopsis: Chief Branner discovers that Plastic Man is actually a wanted felon, and Plastic Man is ready to submit and do his time. However, the Chief finds him too valuable of asset to the force and gives him an assignment to prove himself by bringing in three wanted crooks, each of whom was a unique challenge: one of brawn, one of brains and one of soul (a werewolf, no less). Branner is impressed and absolves O'Brian of his past.
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In Content Item: FlagPlastic Man Archives #2 published February 2000
as Body, Mind and Soul [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 15
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Character(s): Dewey Drip; Fanny Belle
First Line: Boy! What a swell tattoo picture o' mah girl!
Synopsis: Dewey gets a tattoo of his girlfriend's face, but a last-minute inoculation mars the perfection of her image.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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The Framed Gorilla

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
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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The Picture Murders

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: mystery, superhero
Feature(s): Destiny
Character(s): Destiny
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
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The Ghostmaster

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Manhunter
Character(s): Manhunter [Dan Richards]; Thor; The Ghostmaster [Mr. Fearless] (villain, death)
Synopsis: A vaudeville performer billed as the Ghostmaster, a great make-up artist, a master of the quick change, and able to bring the dead to life, is bitter when vaudeville died. He planned and plotted until he found Mr. Trueman, a bank president so trusted, that Fearless' impersonation wouldn't be questioned until he emptied the vaults and faked a suicide. He gives the game away when he adopts Richards' identity as a disguise and meets up with Manhunter, who captures Mr. Fearless and recognizes him as the Ghostmaster, a performer that inspired him as a youth.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMen of Mystery Comics #67 published September 2007
as [The Ghostmaster] [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 10
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Ten Who Never Came Back

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: mystery
Character(s): Dick Mace
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Pages: 2
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Character(s): Dewey Drip
First Line: Letter from yer Gran'pap, Dewey!
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Pages: 1
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Patch-Eye the Perilous

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Human Bomb [Roy Lincoln]; Hustace Throckmorton; Patch-Eye (villain)
Synopsis: The Human Bomb encounters a super-villain named Patch-Eye, an evil genius roboticist.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Disclose 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.
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Fighting the Front

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Character(s): Burp the Twerp
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Pages: 1
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The Death Dolls

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Spirit [Denny Colt]; Yagor (villain, introduction)
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagThe Spirit #8/4/1940 [Philadelphia Record] published August 1940
was The Death Dolls [Story on Interior Page(s) with IFC and Front Cover]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
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Captain Tootsie and The Secret Weapon

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Captain Tootsie
Character(s): Captain Tootsie; Rollo
Reprinting
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1

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