Police Comics #9

(May 1942)

Satan's Son Sells Out To the Japs! (Table of Contents: 1)

Plastic Man / comic story / 9 pages (report information)

Script:

Jack Cole (signed)

Pencils:

Jack Cole (signed)

Inks:

Jack Cole (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

Jack Cole

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Plastic Man [Patrick "Eel" O'Brian] (origin re-cap); Officer Plotz; Hairy Arms [aka Mrs. Reknits] (villain, introduction); Slug (villain, introduction, death); Wooley (villain, introduction, death); Arson Carson (villain, introduction)

Synopsis:

Hairy Arms is a gang leader who served the Axis Powers, and when his gang found out about that, they defied him and sought help from Eel O'Brien. Plastic Man follows up wit fellow officer Plotz, then learns that Arms has kidnapped a boy and leaves a ransom note demanding $50,000 be left at Wildwood Cemetery, where Arms was found manufacturing an Army of robots. Later, Arms was taken down by his own men.

Reprints:

• in Plastic Man Archives (DC, 1998 series) #1 ([December] 1998)

Keywords:

Wildwood Cemetery

Indexer Notes

Wildwood Cemetery was the home of the Spirit. There is a real world cemetery by that name in Massachusetts, a state to which Cole later moved.

["A trespasser-Dagnab it!"] (Table of Contents: 2)

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

Script:

?

Pencils:

John Devlin

Inks:

John Devlin

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Genre:

humor

Characters:

Dewey Drip

Indexer Notes

Writer revision from John Devlin to ? by Craig Delich 2013-4-7. According to the Who's Who, Devlin did not write this strip.

[Mission To Moscow] (Table of Contents: 3)

Eagle Evans / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script:

Clark Williams

Pencils:

Clark Williams

Inks:

Clark Williams

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Genre:

detective-mystery

[The Horse Killers] (Table of Contents: 4)

Steele Kerrigan / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script:

?

Pencils:

Al Bryant

Inks:

Al Bryant

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Genre:

detective-mystery

[Bat Barron's Prison Murder Plot] (Table of Contents: 5)

#711 / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script:

George Brenner [as George E. Brenner] (signed)

Pencils:

George Brenner [as George E. Brenner] (signed)

Inks:

George Brenner [as George E. Brenner] (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Genre:

adventure; crime

Characters:

#711 [Daniel Dyce]; Bat Barron (villain); the Nazis (villains)

Synopsis:

Dyce finds a way to contribute to the national defense from prison when Nazis threaten to recruit agents from within the prison.

[Death In Hangman's Alley] (Table of Contents: 6)

Manhunter / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script:

?

Pencils:

Alex Kotzky

Inks:

Alex Kotzky

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Manhunter [Dan Richards]; Thor; Jim Kelly; Kit Kelly; The Voodoo Queen (villain, introduction); a voodoo priest (villain, introduction); Xaxol (villain, introduction, a giant); The Firing Squad (villains)

Synopsis:

A trio of freaks secretly observe and aid Manhunter on a case.

Indexer Notes

The shoe print disappears from the small circle on Manhunter's chest.

[The Butler Did It!] (Table of Contents: 7)

The Firebrand / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script:

S. M. Iger

Pencils:

Reed Crandall (signed)

Inks:

Reed Crandall (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

The Firebrand [Rod Reilly] (Naval Reserve Officer); Joan Rogers (Rod's fiancee); Slugger Dunn; Maxwell (inventor of a gun sight); the Nazis (villains)

[The Rum Runner's Racket] (Table of Contents: 8)

Chic Carter / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script:

Vernon Henkel

Pencils:

Vernon Henkel

Inks:

Vernon Henkel

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Genre:

detective-mystery

["Unknown to anyone, Senator Knight's beautiful daughter........."] (Table of Contents: 9)

Phantom Lady / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script:

?

Pencils:

Arthur Peddy (signed)

Inks:

Arthur Peddy (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Phantom Lady [Sandra Knight]; Senator Knight; the Japanese (villains)

Synopsis:

Sandra sees her father shot down in Congress by a Japanese agent, and learns that the Japanese are plotting to destroy the J. M. Steel Plant.

Reprints:

• in Men of Mystery Comics (AC, 1999 series) #85 ([April] 2011)
• in Roy Thomas Presents Classic Phantom Lady Softee (PS, 2013 series) #1 (2013)
• in Roy Thomas Presents Classic Phantom Lady (PS, 2013 series) #1 (February 2013)

Keywords:

Black Beam

Doom Train (Table of Contents: 10)

Dick Mace / text story / 2 pages (report information)

Script:

Robert Hyatt ?

Pencils:

?

Inks:

?

Colors:

?

Letters:

typeset

Genre:

detective-mystery

Characters:

Dick Mace

Super Snooper (Table of Contents: 11)

Super Snooper / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script:

Gill Fox

Pencils:

Gill Fox

Inks:

Gill Fox

Colors:

?

Letters:

Gill Fox ?

Genre:

humor

[Mike Fooch, Czar of Crime] (Table of Contents: 12)

The Mouthpiece / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script:

Fred Guardineer (signed)

Pencils:

Fred Guardineer (signed)

Inks:

Fred Guardineer (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Genre:

detective-mystery; superhero

Characters:

The Mouthpiece [Bill Perkins]; Mike Fooch (villain)

[The Murder Movie] (Table of Contents: 13)

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

Script:

Jack Cole

Pencils:

Jack Cole [Ralph Johns]

Inks:

Jack Cole

Colors:

?

Letters:

Jack Cole

Genre:

humor

Characters:

Burp the Twerp

[Adventure In Argentina] (Table of Contents: 14)

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

Script:

Paul Gustavson [as Paul Carroll] (signed)

Pencils:

Paul Gustavson [as Paul Carroll] (signed)

Inks:

Paul Gustavson [as Paul Carroll] (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

Paul Gustavson

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

The Human Bomb [Roy Lincoln]; Jean Adams (Roy's fiancee); the Nazis (villains)

Synopsis:

The Human Bomb tracks down a group of Nazis who had seized an aluminum mine in Argentina.

Indexer Notes

Even though the Who's Who doesn't list Gustavson as a writer of the strip, Mike Kooiman and Jim Amash state in the Quality Companion that he created the strip and wrote it, so the question mark with the script credit has been removed by Craig Delich 2013-1-18. Also verified by Gustavson's son, Terry Gustafson.

Letterer credit courtesy of Terry Gustafson, Paul Gustavson's son.