Police Comics
#19
(May 1943)
Quality Comics,
1941 Series
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 68
- Indicia Frequency
- Monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1943-03-17
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Comic Magazines
- Brand
-
Quality Comic Group
- Editing
- John Beardsley (editor)
Issue 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. 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
- Genre
- superhero; humor
- Characters
- Plastic Man [Patrick "Eel" O'Brian]; The Spirit [Denny Colt]; Ebony White
- Reprints
-
in Plastic Man Archives (DC, 1998 series) #1 (1998 [February 1999])
-
The Forest of Fear
Plastic Man / comic story / 15 pages
- Genre
- superhero; humor
- Characters
- Plastic Man [Patrick "Eel" O'Brian; also as Mr. Gridley] (origin retold); Woozy Winks; Mr. Hadley (introduction); Mr. Procter (death); Mr. Ratter (introduction); Sparkie (introduction, death); Tony
- Synopsis
- Plas's first assignment as a G-Man takes him north to the Hadley Lumber Company, which was for sale......but whose lumbermen were turning up dead left and right. Further investigation revealed a boneyard in the forest which was protected by killer trees! The trees were the creation of a mad scientist who'd successfully engineered animals to be plants, and vice versa. Thinking he would die in an ensuing forest fire, Plas revealed his secret identity to the scientist's henchmen, who he later saved and allowed to go free if they would keep his secret.
- Reprints
- in Plastic Man Archives (DC, 1998 series) #1 (1998 [February 1999])
-
- Keywords
- Hadley Lumber Company
Indexer Notes
Last appearance of Eel O'Brian in a Plastic Man story. Plastic Man is revealed to be an orphan.
[no title indexed]
Dewey Drip / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Dewey's doin' his bit in the Army so ah'm jinin' up m'self!
- Genre
- humor; military
- Characters
- Ma Drip; Captain Huppity
- Synopsis
- Dewey's mother studies up so she can join the armed forces.
[The Haunted House]
The Spirit / comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- The Spirit [Denny Colt]; Ebony White
- Reprints
- from The Spirit (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #12/8/1940 (December 8, 1940)
-
[no title indexed]
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
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- A half-running, half-stumbling figure makes his way down the street...
- Genre
- detective-mystery; superhero
- Characters
- Destiny; Sherlock Doyle (death)
- Synopsis
- Destiny discovers that his powers are more powerful than he first suspected. As he is sleeping, his trance-like mind senses a murder, and he is transported to the home of Sherlock Doyle.
Here Lies Manhunter
Manhunter / comic story / 10 pages
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Manhunter [Dan Richards]; The Sexton [Max Suttle] (villain, introduction)
- Synopsis
- A masked blackmailer named Sexton, disguised as a Policeman, is taken down by Manhunter.
Murder on the High Seas
Phantom Lady / comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Frank Borth (signed as Frank M. Borth)
- Inks
- Frank Borth (signed as Frank M. Borth)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Phantom Lady [Sandra Knight]; Don Borden; Jake (introduction, a comic strip artist); Heidi (friend of Jake's); Joe (villain)
- Synopsis
- Sandra, Don, Jake and Heidi head out on Jake's new runabout, "The Fire-Eater." While Sandra is aquaplaning, another boat comes alongside and attempts to kill her. Later, she discovers that her father had been busting up their boss's rackets and he wanted revenge.
- Reprints
in Indexer Notes
Phantom Lady wears a domino mask.
Sabotage
Dick Mace / text story / 2 pages
- Script
- Robert Hyatt ?
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- detective-mystery; adventure
- Characters
- Dick Mace
Flatfoot Burns Is Heading This Way
Flatfoot Burns / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- humor; detective-mystery
- Characters
- Flatfoot Burns (first appearance)
[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
- A sudden, high-pitched screaming shakes the very hinges of Jean's front door!
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- The Human Bomb [Roy Lincoln]; Jean Adams; Aunt Sophie (Jean's aunt); Henry (villain, Jean's Uncle)
- Synopsis
- Roy decides to help Jean's Aunt Sophie, fearing that she has purchased a haunted house. However, Roy discovers that her uncle is the one behind the "haunting" of the house, in order to prevent the purchase by his wife.
Indexer Notes
Last appearance of Jean Adams.
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.
[no title indexed]
Plastic Man -
1.
The Forest of Fear
Plastic Man -
2.
["Dewey's doin' his bit in the Army so ah'm jinin' up m'self!"]
Dewey Drip -
3.
[The Haunted House]
The Spirit -
4.
[The Maple Syrup Volcano]
Burp the Twerp -
5.
["A half-running, half-stumbling figure makes his way down the street..."]
Destiny -
6.
Here Lies Manhunter
Manhunter -
7.
Murder on the High Seas
Phantom Lady -
8.
Sabotage
Dick Mace -
9.
Flatfoot Burns Is Heading This Way
Flatfoot Burns -
10.
[no title indexed]
Super Snooper -
11.
["A sudden, high-pitched screaming shakes the very hinges of Jean's front door!"]
The Human Bomb
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- Craig Delich
- Gregory Fischer
- Del Gruber
- Michael Hoskin
- Clint Maxwell
- Mike Nielsen
- Tony R. Rose
- Jonathan Sari
- Jim Van Dore
- David Wilt
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