Digital Comic Museum > Police Comics 023 (paper)

Issue: #23
Published: October 1943, Price: 0.10 USD, Pages: 68, Editing: George Brenner
Color: Color Dimensions: Standard Golden Age US Paper Stock: Binding: Saddle-stitched Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series
Notes: Copyright 1943 by Comic Magazines. The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1943, New Series, Vol. 38, No. 4.

Comic Contents:

Cover (1 page)
Featuring:	Plastic Man
Credits:	Pencils: Jack Cole (signed) \| Inks: Jack Cole (signed)
Genre:	Superhero
Characters:	Plastic Man [Patrick "Eel" O'Brian] The Spirit [Denny Colt]

Comic Story (15 pages)	The Ghost Train
Featuring:	Plastic Man
Synopsis:	Woozy and Plas ride a haunted train.
Credits:	Script: Jack Cole \| Pencils: Jack Cole \| Inks: John Belfi [as Belfi] (signed) \| Letters: Jack Cole
Genre:	Superhero
Characters:	Plastic Man [Patrick "Eel" O'Brian] Woozy Winks Captain Murphy [aka Captain Murphey] Caprice Corbett (introduction) Snout (villain, Introduction) J. Noble Wopps (villain, Introduction)

Comic Story (6 pages)
Featuring:	The Human Bomb
Credits:	Pencils: Mort Leav \| Inks: Mort Leav
Genre:	Superhero
Characters:	The Human Bomb [Roy Lincoln] Hustace Throckmorton

Comic Story (1 page)
Featuring:	Burp the Twerp
Credits:	Script: Jack Cole [as Ralph Johns](credited) \| Pencils: Jack Cole [as Ralph Johns](credited) \| Inks: Jack Cole [as Ralph Johns](credited) \| Letters: Jack Cole
Genre:	Humor
Characters:	Burp The Twerp Plastic Man [Eel O'Brian] Slop

Comic Story (7 pages)
Featuring:	Destiny
Credits:	Pencils: Jack Keller ? \| Inks: Jack Keller ?
Genre:	Detective-mystery Superhero
Characters:	Destiny

Comic Story (1 page)
Featuring:	Dewey Drip
Synopsis:	Ma Drip opens the "Drip Inn" selling food to tourists. A couple stops in for a "light, warm snack," hoping for a "quaint, native dish." Pappy knocks himself out trying to catch a hog and Ma drags him inside. The tourists think she's a cannibal.
Credits:	Script: Bernard Dibble ? \| Pencils: Bernard Dibble \| Inks: Bernard Dibble
Genre:	Humor
Characters:	Ma Drip Pappy Drip

Comic Story (7 pages)	Ebony's X-Ray Eyes
Featuring:	The Spirit
Credits:	Script: Will Eisner \| Pencils: Will Eisner \| Inks: Will Eisner \| Colours: Joe Kubert \| Letters: Sam Rosen
Genre:	Superhero
Characters:	The Spirit [Denny Colt] Ebony White

Comic Story (6 pages)	The Sky Saboteurs
Featuring:	Flatfoot Burns
Credits:	Script: Al Stahl \| Pencils: Al Stahl \| Inks: Al Stahl
Genre:	Humor Detective-mystery
Characters:	Flatfoot Burns

Text Story (2 pages)	The San Juan Bluebeard
Featuring:	Dick Mace
Credits:	Script: Robert Hyatt ? \| Letters: typeset
Genre:	Detective-mystery
Characters:	Dick Mace

Comic Story (1 page)
Featuring:	Super Snooper
Credits:	Script: Gill Fox \| Pencils: Gill Fox \| Inks: Gill Fox \| Letters: Gill Fox ?
Genre:	Humor
Characters:	Gill Fox

Comic Story (6 pages)	The Four Maniacs
Featuring:	Phantom Lady
Synopsis:	When Sandra and the Senator come home, they discover all their hired servants are gone and replaced by new ones, who happen to be escapees from a nuthouse and who hold the two prisoner until the Phantom Lady appears. But it's Don who saves the day.
Credits:	Pencils: Rudy Palais [as Rudolph Palais] (signed) \| Inks: Rudy Palais [as Rudolph Palais] (signed)
Genre:	Superhero
Characters:	Phantom Lady [Sandra Knight] Don Borden Senator Knight Looey (villain, The Knight's New Butler) Joe (villain) Ethyl (villain, The Knight's New Maid)

Comic Story (10 pages)	The Murdering Rhymester
Featuring:	Manhunter
Credits:	Pencils: John Cassone ? \| Inks: John Cassone ?
Genre:	Superhero
Characters:	Manhunter [Dan Richards] VILLAIN: The Rhymester [Frank Smith] (first Appearance)

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