Police Comics
#29
(April 1944)
Quality Comics,
1941 Series
- Volume
- [1]
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 60
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1944-02-16
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Comic Magazines
- Brand
-
Quality Comic Group
- Printer
- Printed in U. S. A.
- Editing
- George Brenner (credited as George E. Brenner) (editor); Busy Arnold (credited as E. M. Arnold) (general manager)
Issue Notes
Copyright 1944 by Comic Magazines.
The on-sale date and volume number are from the publication date and volume number reported to the U.S. Copyright Office found in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1944, New Series, Volume 39, Number 1. Class B periodical. Copyright registration number B 620156.
The on-sale date and volume number are from the publication date and volume number reported to the U.S. Copyright Office found in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1944, New Series, Volume 39, Number 1. Class B periodical. Copyright registration number B 620156.
[no title indexed]
Plastic Man / cover / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Haw-haw! Those distorting mirrors always kill me!
- Genre
- humor; superhero
- Characters
- Plastic Man [Patrick "Eel" O'Brian]
- Reprints
-
in Plastic Man Archives (DC, 1998 series) #2 (2000 [February 2001]) - in Gwandanaland Comics (Gwandanaland Comics, 2016 series) #807 - Plastic Man - Volume 7 ([April] 2017)
-
[Death in Derlin's Castle]
Plastic Man / comic story / 15 pages
- Genre
- superhero; humor
- Characters
- Plastic Man [Patrick "Eel" O'Brian]; Woozy Winks; J.V. Arlen (introduction, death); Daniel Richard Derlin (villain, introduction, death)
- Synopsis
- Plas investigates the murder of a treasury agent.
- Reprints
- in Plastic Man Archives (DC, 1998 series) #2 (2000 [February 2001])
-
[no title indexed]
Dewey Drip / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Pull in that stomach -- you --!!
- Genre
- humor; military
- Characters
- Dewey Drip; Sergeant; General
- Synopsis
- Imitating his sergeant's shouted order to "Pull in thet stummick," Dewey accidentally fat-shames a passing general.
[The Curse of Cain]
Destiny / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- detective-mystery; superhero
- Characters
- Destiny
- Synopsis
- Destiny, with many experiences under his belt, begins to use his power more proactively to prevent the murders to which he is drawn. He happens upon a pitiful young man who had been cursed by a witch, and only by taking the life of another human would his torment end. Destiny's solution was to help the man enlist in the armed forces, and the man went on to become a crack killer pilot.
The Crime Crumpler
Flatfoot Burns / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- humor; detective-mystery
- Characters
- Flatfoot Burns
[The Deathless Brain of Tony Conroy]
Manhunter / comic story / 10 pages
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Manhunter [Dan Richards]; Thor the Thunder Dog; Dr. Arthur Sims (pseudo villain, physician, scientist, death); Tony Conroy (villain, gangster, death); Conroy's gang [Joe; other un-named] (villains, both die)
- Synopsis
- Dr. Sims has invented a serum that can keep the brain alive and needs but a test subject. Just then, two thugs come in with the body of a bullet-ridden gangster, who dies on the table. When the thugs scatter, the doctor removes the dead gangster's brain, attaches it to his Artificial Circulator, and applies the serum. The brain displays thought patterns and then mentally controls the scientist to murder his gang members who had deserted his body.
- Keywords
- Artificial Circulator
Death Fog
Dick Mace / text story / 2 pages
- Script
- Robert Hyatt ?
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- detective-mystery; adventure
- Characters
- Dick Mace
[no title indexed]
The Human Bomb / comic story / 8 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Roy, don't you ever think about love?
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- The Human Bomb [Roy Lincoln]; Hustace Throckmorton; Nola (villain)
- Synopsis
- For better or worse, Hustace becomes Roy's assistant in the new Lincoln-Throckmorton Laboratory. Roy's two careers leaves little time for romance, but Hustace becomes easily distracted by a femme fatale named Nola.
Indexer Notes
This is Leav. He draws large hands, many lively faces, some panels without backgrounds, and a special way of running with high lifted legs. Compare with his signed story in Wanted Comics (Orbit-Wanted, 1947 series) #52 (February 1953).
[The Silk District Beat]
The Spirit / comic story / 8 pages
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- The Spirit [Denny Colt]
- Reprints
- from The Spirit (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #1/12/1941 (January 12, 1941)
-
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
["Haw-haw! Those distorting mirrors always kill me!"]
Plastic Man -
1.
[Death in Derlin's Castle]
Plastic Man -
2.
["Pull in that stomach -- you --!!"]
Dewey Drip -
3.
[The Curse of Cain]
Destiny -
4.
The Crime Crumpler
Flatfoot Burns -
5.
[The Deathless Brain of Tony Conroy]
Manhunter -
6.
Death Fog
Dick Mace -
7.
["Roy, don't you ever think about love?"]
The Human Bomb -
8.
[Sloozy Slime]
Burp the Twerp -
9.
[The Silk District Beat]
The Spirit
This issue was modified by, among others
- Steinar Ådland
- Ray Bottorff Jr
- Craig Delich
- Gregory Fischer
- Del Gruber
- Merlin Haas
- Bob Hughes
- Clint Maxwell
- Tony R. Rose
- Jim Van Dore
- David Wilt
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