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 serves the Axis powers, and when his gang finds out about that, they defy him and seek help from Eel O'Brian. Plastic Man follows up with fellow officer Plotz, then learns that Arms has kidnapped a boy and left a ransom note demanding $50,000 be left at Wildwood Cemetery, where Arms was found manufacturing an army of robots. Later, Arms is 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.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 2)

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

Script

John Devlin ?

Pencils

John Devlin

Inks

John Devlin

Colors

?

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Wot y'shootin' at, Paw?

Genre

humor

Characters

Dewey Drip

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 3)

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

Script

Clark Williams

Pencils

Clark Williams

Inks

Clark Williams

Colors

?

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

On the frozen steppes of Russia, Eagle Evans and his pal Snap Smith, battle for the lives of two men representing the allied cause of democracy...

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.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 6)

Manhunter / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Alex Kotzky

Inks

Alex Kotzky

Colors

?

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

On the water front of Empire City, squats the "Swamp"...

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

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 9)

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

Script

?

Pencils

Arthur Peddy (signed)

Inks

Arthur Peddy (signed)

Colors

?

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Unknown to anyone, Senator Knight's beautiful daughter.........

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

[no title indexed] (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

First Line of Dialogue or Text

At the home of his fiancee, Jean... Roy Lincoln receives an urgent message...

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

Mike Kooiman and Jim Amash state in the Quality Companion that Gustavson created the strip and wrote it. Gustavson's son, Terry Gustafson, concurs.

Letters credit from Terry Gustafson, Paul Gustavson's son.