Police Comics
#16
(February 1943)
Quality Comics,
1941 Series
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 68
- Indicia Frequency
- Monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1942-12-11
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Comic Magazines Inc.
- Brand
-
Quality Comic Group
- Editing
- John Beardsley (editor)
Issue 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.
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.
[no title indexed]
Plastic Man / cover / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- I'm the Spirit! And Ebony and I are certainly a circus...
- Genre
- superhero; humor
- Characters
- Plastic Man [Patrick "Eel" O'Brian]; Woozy Winks; The Spirit [Denny Colt]; Ebony White
- Reprints
-
in Plastic Man Archives (DC, 1998 series) #1 (1998 [February 1999])
-
[The Revenge of Chief Great Warrior]
Plastic Man / comic story / 13 pages
- Genre
- superhero; humor
- Characters
- Plastic Man [Patrick "Eel" O'Brian]; Woozy Winks; Blackfoot Indians; Will Hawes (introduction); Mayor Crowley; Police Commissioner Kane; Captain Murphy [aka Captain Murphey]; Officer Danny; Chief Great Warrior (villain, introduction)
- Synopsis
- Plas and Woozy go undercover on the Blackfoot Indian reservation to squash an uprising led by Chief Great Warrior, who had the mystical ability to project himself through reflective surfaces.
- Reprints
- in Plastic Man Archives (DC, 1998 series) #1 (1998 [February 1999])
-
Wanted: Thor, Manhunter's Dog, Dead Or Alive
Manhunter / comic story / 10 pages
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Manhunter [Dan Richards]; Thor (his dog)
- Synopsis
- Thor takes center stage when some crooks begin using an identical dog to do their killing. When the same crooks caught the Manhunter, Thor saved him from certain doom and put down the rival canine.
[no title indexed]
Dewey Drip / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- I wonder what this big surprise is?
- Genre
- humor; military
- Characters
- Dewey Drip; Maisie
- Synopsis
- The General has scheduled an opera singer to entertain the troops, but Dewey mistakes him for "a sabbytour spy!" Dewey locks up the singer and his friend Maisie the cabaret dancer performs instead, to much acclaim.
Indexer Notes
Artist credit revised from Devlin to Dibble by D. Wilt 2018-05-19. Art is Dibble style.
[Palyachi the Killer Clown]
The Spirit / comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- The Spirit [Denny Colt]; Ebony White; Palyachi (villain, introduction); Marka (villain, introduction, death)
- Reprints
- from The Spirit (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #7/28/1940 (July 28, 1940)
-
[no title indexed]
The Human Bomb / comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- Paul Gustavson
- Pencils
- Paul Gustavson
- Inks
- Paul Gustavson
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Paul Gustavson (sourced)
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- I'll be hanged if I know what to do with you??
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- The Human Bomb [Roy Lincoln]; Hustace Throckmorton
- Synopsis
- Hustace causes a furor when one of his shoes flies off, and his explosive foot powers are unleashed.
Indexer Notes
Mike Kooiman and Jim Amash state in the Quality Companion that Gustavson created the strip and wrote it. Gustavson's son, Terry Gustafson, concurs.
The Strange Case of Professor Tomorrow
Chic Carter / comic story / 8 pages
- Genre
- detective-mystery; superhero
Get Sink Larson!
Dick Mace / text story / 2 pages
- Script
- Robert Hyatt ?
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- detective-mystery; adventure
- Characters
- Dick Mace
[The Coming of Destiny]
Destiny / comic story / 7 pages
- Script
- George Brenner (signed as George E. Brenner)
- Pencils
- George Brenner (signed as George E. Brenner)
- Inks
- George Brenner (signed as George E. Brenner)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- detective-mystery; superhero
- Characters
- Destiny (origin); #711 [Daniel Dyce] (a ghost); Professor Seezall Nozal (introduction); Oscar Jones (villain); Max (villain); Cash (villain)
- Synopsis
- A solitary, pathetic figure, wandering the rainy streets in search of shelter, finds his way into a club where Professor Seezall Nozal is performing his tricks of the mind. He selects the young man, sensing his ability to foresee death, informs the man that he can use this power for good or evil, stating that "you are Destiny"! Leaving the club, the young man focuses his mind and is transported to the scene of the murder of 711, but the hero's killer, Oscar Jones, escapes.
[no title indexed]
Super Snooper / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- By Jove! This looks like trouble!
- Genre
- humor
The Mystery of the Opera House Robberies!
Phantom Lady / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Phantom Lady [Sandra Knight]; Senator Knight; Don Borden; Mrs. Van Bilt; un-named guard (villain, death); Ramon (villain)
- Synopsis
- Phantom Lady decides to investigate the theft of a wealthy lady's diamond necklace at the opera and discovers several of the actors were in on the caper.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- Black Light
in Indexer Notes
Phantom Lady wears a mask.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
["I'm the Spirit! And Ebony and I are certainly a circus..."]
Plastic Man -
1.
[The Revenge of Chief Great Warrior]
Plastic Man -
2.
Wanted: Thor, Manhunter's Dog, Dead Or Alive
Manhunter -
3.
["I wonder what this big surprise is?"]
Dewey Drip -
4.
[Palyachi the Killer Clown]
The Spirit -
5.
["I'll be hanged if I know what to do with you??"]
The Human Bomb -
6.
The Strange Case of Professor Tomorrow
Chic Carter -
7.
Get Sink Larson!
Dick Mace -
8.
[Saving the Dam]
Burp the Twerp -
9.
[The Coming of Destiny]
Destiny -
10.
["By Jove! This looks like trouble!"]
Super Snooper -
11.
The Mystery of the Opera House Robberies!
Phantom Lady
This issue was modified by, among others
- Craig Delich
- Gregory Fischer
- Del Gruber
- Michael Hoskin
- Clint Maxwell
- Mike Nielsen
- Tony R. Rose
- Jonathan Sari
- Jim Stangas
- Jim Van Dore
- David Wilt
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