Police Comics
#17
(March 1943)
Quality Comics,
1941 Series
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 68
- Indicia Frequency
- Monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1943-01-12
- 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
- Hey fellows... Don't forget, I'm the Spirit!
- Genre
- superhero; humor
- Characters
- Plastic Man [Patrick "Eel" O'Brian]; The Spirit [Denny Colt]
- Reprints
-
in Plastic Man Archives (DC, 1998 series) #1 (1998 [February 1999])
-
[no title indexed]
Plastic Man / comic story / 13 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Lock your doors! Draw the shades! And grab a pencil, dear reader!
- Genre
- superhero; humor
- Characters
- Plastic Man [Eel O'Brian]; Woozy Winks; Director Steinmetz (dies); Gar Crochett; Dave (dies); Mrs. Dave; Stanley Vane
- Synopsis
- Plas and Woozy go to a haunted mansion to solve a murder mystery.
- Reprints
- in Plastic Man Archives (DC, 1998 series) #1 (1998 [February 1999])
-
[Red-Haired Kate]
Manhunter / comic story / 10 pages
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Manhunter [Dan Richards]; Red Haired Kate (villain, introduction)
- Synopsis
- Manhunter runs into a killer vamp who carries a whip.
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
Manhunter appears in the story without a mask and the shorts he wore in #15-16 are oddly not present.
[no title indexed]
Dewey Drip / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- You guys are gonna show the general what you've learned about camouflage!
- Genre
- humor; military
- Characters
- Dewey Drip; Sergeant; General; Kelly
- Synopsis
- While his fellow soldiers disguise themselves as trees and bushes, Dewey puts on a giant woodpecker costume as camouflage.
Indexer Notes
Script credit changed to Bernard Dibble ? by D. Wilt 2018-5-19. Based on internal evidence, Dibble seems to have written much of his comic strip and comic book work.
Have You Seen Him?
Destiny / comic story / 7 pages
- Script
- George Brenner (signed as Geo E. Brenner)
- Pencils
- George Brenner (signed as Geo E. Brenner)
- Inks
- George Brenner (signed as Geo E. Brenner)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- detective-mystery; superhero
- Characters
- 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.
[The Orphans]
The Spirit / comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- The Spirit [Denny Colt]
- Reprints
- from The Spirit (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #8/25/1940 (August 25, 1940)
-
Mystery of the Black Cat!
Phantom Lady / comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Frank Borth (signed)
- Inks
- Frank Borth (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- 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.
- Reprints
- in Adventure Comics (DC, 1938 series) #416 (March 1972)
-
in Roy Thomas Presents Classic Phantom Lady Softee (PS Artbooks, 2013 series) #1 (2013) - in Roy Thomas Presents Classic Phantom Lady (PS Artbooks, 2013 series) #1 (February 2013)
-
Chic Carter and the Voice from the Grave!
Chic Carter / comic story / 8 pages
- Genre
- detective-mystery; superhero
The Madman
Dick Mace / text story / 1.8 pages
- Script
- Robert Hyatt ?
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- detective-mystery; adventure
- Characters
- Dick Mace
[no title indexed]
Super Snooper / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Say, you little runt where is Ten Grove Street?
- Genre
- humor
[no title indexed]
The Human Bomb / comic story / 8 pages
- Script
- Paul Gustavson
- Pencils
- Paul Gustavson
- Inks
- Paul Gustavson
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Paul Gustavson (sourced)
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Olaf Olson and Lars Larson are two reporters from Missouri --
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- The Human Bomb [Roy Lincoln]; Hustace Throckmorton; Olaf Olson (newspaperman); Lars Larson (newspaperman)
- 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.
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.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
["Hey fellows... Don't forget, I'm the Spirit!"]
Plastic Man -
1.
["Lock your doors! Draw the shades! And grab a pencil, dear reader!"]
Plastic Man -
2.
[Red-Haired Kate]
Manhunter -
3.
["You guys are gonna show the general what you've learned about camouflage!"]
Dewey Drip -
4.
Have You Seen Him?
Destiny -
5.
[The Black Widow]
Burp the Twerp -
6.
[The Orphans]
The Spirit -
7.
Mystery of the Black Cat!
Phantom Lady -
8.
Chic Carter and the Voice from the Grave!
Chic Carter -
9.
The Madman
Dick Mace -
10.
["Say, you little runt where is Ten Grove Street?"]
Super Snooper -
11.
["Olaf Olson and Lars Larson are two reporters from Missouri --"]
The Human Bomb
This issue was modified by, among others
- Craig Delich
- Gregory Fischer
- Del Gruber
- Matthew Head
- Michael Hoskin
- Clint Maxwell
- Mike Nielsen
- Tony R. Rose
- Jonathan Sari
- Jim Van Dore
- David Wilt
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