Police Comics
#12
(October 1942)
Quality Comics,
1941 Series
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 68
- Indicia Frequency
- Monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1942-08-05
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Comic Magazines, Inc.
- Brand
-
Quality Comic Group
- Editing
- Gill Fox [as Gilbert Fox]
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, 1942, New Series, Vol. 37, No. 4.
The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1942, New Series, Vol. 37, No. 4.
[no title indexed]
Plastic Man / cover / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- With Plastic Man
- Genre
- superhero; humor
- Characters
- Plastic Man [Patrick "Eel" O'Brian]; The Spirit [Denny Colt] (inset); #711 [Daniel Dyce] (inset); Manhunter [Dan Richards] (inset); The Human Bomb [Roy Lincoln] (inset); Chic Carter (inset)
- Reprints
-
in Plastic Man Archives (DC, 1998 series) #1 (1998 [February 1999])
-
[The Sinister Swami]
Plastic Man / comic story / 9 pages
- Genre
- superhero; humor
- Characters
- Plastic Man [Patrick "Eel" O'Brian]; Rita Johns (introduction); Captain Murphey [aka Captain Murphy]; Looie (villain); Swami (villain); Skipper O'Toole (villain)
- Synopsis
- Looie puts out a reward for the murder of Plastic Man and The Swami decides to accept the offer. However, he discovers that his super-powers were hindered by the very existence of Plastic Man.
- Reprints
- in Plastic Man Archives (DC, 1998 series) #1 (1998 [February 1999])
-
[Carl Von Spunk's Pottery Plot]
#711 / comic story / 5 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
- ?
- Genre
- superhero; crime; detective-mystery
- Characters
- #711 [Daniel Dyce]; Carl von Spunk (villain)
- Synopsis
- For all his success, #711 gets sloppy and more inmates discover his true identity.
[Fifth Column Hospital]
Firebrand / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Firebrand [Rod Reilly]
Indexer Notes
Art was previously attributed to Reed Crandall.
[no title indexed]
Manhunter / comic story / 6 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- What goes, Jim?
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Manhunter [Dan Richards]; Thor; Jim Kelly; Kit Kelly
Indexer Notes
Manhunter is wearing his original costume.
[no title indexed]
Dewey Drip / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Gawsh! Maw sent me mah dawg so I won't be lonesome for her an' Paw!
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Dewey Drip
[The Black Queen]
The Spirit / comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Spirit [Denny Colt]; VILLAIN: Black Queen (first appearance)
- Reprints
- from The Spirit (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #6/16/1940 (June 16, 1940)
-
[no title indexed]
Burp the Twerp / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- So you want to join the army, eh?
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Burp the Twerp
[The Tank Factory Sabotage]
Phantom Lady / comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Art Peddy (signed as Arthur Peddy)
- Inks
- Art Peddy (signed as Arthur Peddy)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Phantom Lady [Sandra Knight]; Senator Knight; Masie (factory worker); Mike (villain); un-named spies (villains)
- Synopsis
- Sandra and her father head out to the testing grounds to witness new U.S. tanks in their preliminary testing, and are shocked to see the tanks literally falling apart! Sandra then decides to go undercover as a new factory worker in order to discover why this is happening.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- Black Flashlight
in [Captain Blackwolf's Crew of Corpses]
Chic Carter / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- detective-mystery; superhero
Message from Allah
Dick Mace / text story / 2 pages
- Script
- Robert Hyatt ?
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- detective-mystery; adventure
- Characters
- Dick Mace
The Waterfront Monster
The Mouthpiece / comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- Fred Guardineer (signed)
- Pencils
- Fred Guardineer (signed)
- Inks
- Fred Guardineer (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- detective-mystery; superhero
- Characters
- The Mouthpiece [Bill Perkins]; Underwaterman (villain, a Nazi, death)
[no title indexed]
The Human Bomb / comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- Paul Gustavson (signed as Paul Carrol)
- Pencils
- Paul Gustavson (signed as Paul Carrol)
- Inks
- Paul Gustavson (signed as Paul Carrol)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Paul Gustavson (signed as Paul Carrol) (sourced)
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- What's wrong with Hungarian goulash?
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- The Human Bomb [Roy Lincoln] (origin retold)
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
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Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
["With Plastic Man"]
Plastic Man -
1.
[The Sinister Swami]
Plastic Man -
2.
Super Snooper
Super Snooper -
3.
[Carl Von Spunk's Pottery Plot]
#711 -
4.
[Fifth Column Hospital]
Firebrand -
5.
[The Theft of the Montague Diamond]
Steele Kerrigan -
6.
["What goes, Jim?"]
Manhunter -
7.
["Gawsh! Maw sent me mah dawg so I won't be lonesome for her an' Paw!"]
Dewey Drip -
8.
[The Black Queen]
The Spirit -
9.
["So you want to join the army, eh?"]
Burp the Twerp -
10.
[The Tank Factory Sabotage]
Phantom Lady -
11.
[Captain Blackwolf's Crew of Corpses]
Chic Carter -
12.
Message from Allah
Dick Mace -
13.
The Waterfront Monster
The Mouthpiece -
14.
["What's wrong with Hungarian goulash?"]
The Human Bomb
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