Digital Comic Museum - Police Comics 009


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Issue: #9
Published: May 1942, Price: 0.10 USD, Pages: 68, Editing: Gill Fox [as Gilbert Fox]
Color: Color Dimensions: Standard Golden Age US Paper Stock: Glossy Covers; Newsprint Interiors Binding: Saddle-stitched Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series
Notes: Copyright 1942 by Comic Magazines, Inc. The on-sale date is the publication date reported in the U. S. Copyright Office filing.

Comic Contents:

Cover (1 page)
Featuring:	Plastic Man
Credits:	Pencils: Gill Fox \| Inks: Gill Fox
Genre:	Superhero
Characters:	Plastic Man [Patrick "Eel" O'Brian] #711 [Daniel Dyce] (inset) The Human Bomb [Roy Lincoln] (inset) Manhunter [Dan Richards] (inset) The Firebrand [Rod Reilly] (inset) Chic Carter (inset)

Comic Story (9 pages)	Satan's Son Sells Out to the Japs!
Featuring:	Plastic Man
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.
Credits:	Script: Jack Cole (signed) \| Pencils: Jack Cole (signed) \| Inks: Jack Cole (signed) \| 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)

Comic Story (1 page)
Featuring:	Dewey Drip
Credits:	Script: John Devlin ? \| Pencils: John Devlin \| Inks: John Devlin
Genre:	Humor
Characters:	Dewey Drip

Comic Story (5 pages)
Featuring:	Eagle Evans
Credits:	Script: Witmer Williams [as Clark Williams] (signed) \| Pencils: Witmer Williams [as Clark Williams] (signed) \| Inks: Witmer Williams [as Clark Williams] (signed)
Genre:	Detective-mystery

Comic Story (5 pages)	The Horse Killers
Featuring:	Steele Kerrigan
Credits:	Pencils: Al Bryant (signed) \| Inks: Al Bryant (signed)
Genre:	Detective-mystery

Comic Story (5 pages)	Bat Barron's Prison Murder Plot
Featuring:	#711
Synopsis:	Dyce finds a way to contribute to the national defense from prison when Nazis threaten to recruit agents from within the prison.
Credits:	Script: George Brenner [as George E. Brenner] (signed) \| Pencils: George Brenner [as George E. Brenner] (signed) \| Inks: George Brenner [as George E. Brenner] (signed)
Genre:	Adventure Crime
Characters:	#711 [Daniel Dyce] Bat Barron (villain) The Nazis (villains)

Comic Story (6 pages)
Featuring:	Manhunter
Synopsis:	A trio of freaks secretly observe and aid Manhunter on a case.
Credits:	Pencils: Alex Kotzky \| Inks: Alex Kotzky
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)

Comic Story (6 pages)	The Butler Did It!
Featuring:	The Firebrand
Credits:	Script: S. M. Iger \| Pencils: Reed Crandall (signed) \| Inks: Reed Crandall (signed)
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)

Comic Story (6 pages)	The Rum Runner's Racket
Featuring:	Chic Carter
Credits:	Script: Vernon Henkel (signed) \| Pencils: Vernon Henkel (signed) \| Inks: Vernon Henkel (signed)
Genre:	Detective-mystery

Comic Story (6 pages)
Featuring:	Phantom Lady
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.
Credits:	Pencils: Arthur Peddy (signed) \| Inks: Arthur Peddy (signed)
Genre:	Superhero
Characters:	Phantom Lady [Sandra Knight] Senator Knight The Japanese (villains)

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

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

Comic Story (5 pages)	Mike Fooch, Czar of Crime
Featuring:	The Mouthpiece
Credits:	Script: Fred Guardineer (signed) \| Pencils: Fred Guardineer (signed) \| Inks: Fred Guardineer (signed)
Genre:	Detective-mystery Superhero
Characters:	The Mouthpiece [Bill Perkins] Mike Fooch (villain)

Comic Story (1 page)	The Murder Movie
Featuring:	Burp the Twerp
Credits:	Script: Jack Cole \| Pencils: Jack Cole [Ralph Johns] \| Inks: Jack Cole \| Letters: Jack Cole
Genre:	Humor
Characters:	Burp The Twerp

Comic Story (6 pages)
Featuring:	The Human Bomb
Synopsis:	The Human Bomb tracks down a group of Nazis who had seized an aluminum mine in Argentina.
Credits:	Script: Paul Gustavson [as Paul Carroll] (signed) \| Pencils: Paul Gustavson [as Paul Carroll] (signed) \| Inks: Paul Gustavson [as Paul Carroll] (signed) \| Letters: Paul Gustavson
Genre:	Superhero
Characters:	The Human Bomb [Roy Lincoln] Jean Adams (Roy's Fiancee) The Nazis (villains)

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