Police Comics #45

(August 1945)

[Chief Rain-In-the-Trap] (Table of Contents)

Plastic Man / comic story / 15 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Jack Cole

Pencils:

Jack Cole

Inks:

Jack Cole

Colors:

?

Letters:

Jack Cole

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Plastic Man [Patrick "Eel" O'Brian]; Woozy Winks; Chief Branner; Cyrus Van Rooten (introduction); Jeeves (introduction); Chief Rain-In-the-Trap [Mickey the Actor] (villain, introduction)

Synopsis:

Mickey the Actor poses as an indian to try to get the town from Cyrus Van Rooten.

Reprints:

• in Plastic Man Archives (DC, 1998 series) #4 ([November] 2002)

[Vixen the Viper] (Table of Contents)

Flatfoot Burns / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Al Stahl

Pencils:

Al Stahl

Inks:

Janice Valleau (Ginger)

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

humor; detective-mystery

Characters:

Flatfoot Burns

[The Taxi Cab Jinx] (Table of Contents)

Human Bomb / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Paul Gustavson

Pencils:

Paul Gustavson

Inks:

Paul Gustavson

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Human Bomb [Roy Lincoln]

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

Dewey Drip / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Bernard Dibble

Inks:

Bernard Dibble

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

humor

Characters:

Dewey the Drip

Indexer Notes

Writer credit revised from "Joe Devlin" (presumably a typo for "John Devlin") to ? by Craig Delich 2013-4-6. The Who's Who does not indicate a writing credit for John Devlin on this strip. Artist correction from Joe Devlin to Bernard Dibble, who took over this strip in 1943 from John Devlin.

[At Indian Falls] (Table of Contents)

Candy / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Harry Sahle

Pencils:

Harry Sahle

Inks:

Harry Sahle

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

humor; teen

Characters:

Candy O'Connor

The Tailor's Dummy (Table of Contents)

Manhunter / comic story / 10 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Pete Riss

Inks:

?

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Manhunter [Dan Richards]

Indexer Notes

Credits from Martin O'Hearn at http://martinohearn.blogspot.com/ ; pencils formerly attributed to Al Bryant.

Legionnaire (Table of Contents)

Legionnaire / text story / 2 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Letters:

typeset

[The Holdup Victim] (Table of Contents)

Burp the Twerp / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

Jack Cole

Pencils:

Jack Cole [Ralph Johns]

Inks:

Jack Cole

Colors:

?

Letters:

Jack Cole

Content Information

Genre:

humor

Characters:

Burp the Twerp

Keep Out (Table of Contents)

The Spirit / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Bill Woolfolk

Pencils:

Lou Fine

Inks:

Quality staff

Colors:

?

Letters:

Martin DeMuth

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

The Spirit [Denny Colt]

Reprints:

• from The Spirit (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #6/27/1943 (June 27th, 1943)