Digital Comic Museum - Police Comics 015


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Issue: #15
Published: January 1943, Price: 0.10 USD, Pages: 68, Editing:
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 from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1943, New Series, Vol. 38, No. 2.

Comic Contents:

Cover (1 page)
Genre:	Superhero
Characters:	Plastic Man [Patrick "Eel" O'Brian] The Spirit [Denny Colt]

Comic Story (13 pages)	The Weather Weapon
Synopsis:	Boreas, the north wind, was "controlled" by a machine in the possession of Don Snitzel and some Fifth Columnists in order control the weather. The wind was useless on Woozy, who shrugged off all attacks, and any punches were also met with equal and opposite spontaneous force.
Genre:	Superhero
Characters:	Plastic Man [Patrick "Eel" O'Brian] Woozy Winks Dr. Egrett (introduction, Death) Boreas (introduction) Ratty McGoon (villain, Introduction) Don Snitzel (villain, Introduction)

Comic Story (10 pages)	The Slaughter Symphony
Synopsis:	Manhunter gets the goat of Sergeant Clancy when he rounds up the murderous maestro Orsky.
Genre:	Superhero
Characters:	Manhunter [Dan Richards] Thor (his Dog) Sergeant Clancy Sivan Orsky (villain)

Comic Story (8 pages)
Synopsis:	After giving Hustace Throckmorton an emergency blood transfusion, Roy notices that the little man now exhibits powers similar to the Human Bomb, except he has explosive feet, not hands.
Genre:	Superhero
Characters:	The Human Bomb [Roy Lincoln] Hustace Throckmorton (introduction) Honeybun (Hustace's Girlfriend, Introduction)

Comic Story (1 page)
Genre:	Humor
Characters:	Dewey Drip

Comic Story (7 pages)	Mr. Midnight
Genre:	Superhero
Characters:	Spirit [Denny Colt]

Comic Story (8 pages)	The Vengeance of Dr. Jason
Genre:	Detective-mystery

Text Story (1 page)	Vulture Smith
Credits:	Letters: typeset
Genre:	Detective-mystery
Characters:	Dick Mace

Comic Story (1 page)	Crossword Puzzle Duel
Genre:	Humor
Characters:	Burp The Twerp

Comic Story (7 pages)	The Death of 711
Synopsis:	711, becoming more sloppy and allowing more and more inmates to discover his identity, faces racketeer Oscar Jones, whose long-winded story about his ignoble life and how his prison stay led him into fisticuffs with 711, is told. Jones wins the struggle only with the benefit of his gun, which is used to pump bullet after bullet into the soon to be lifeless body of 711. However, as 711 dies, the silhouette of Destiny appears over the body.
Genre:	Superhero
Characters:	711 [Daniel Dyce] (death) Destiny (introduction) Oscar Jones (villain, Introduction)

Comic Story (1 page)
Genre:	Humor

Comic Story (6 pages)	The School for Spies!
Synopsis:	Melinda attends a class in spying techniques at Baron Torpe's home, and she tells him that she is going to do a little spying that evening. When she brings back a clock and valuable information, she is taken prisoner by Torpe, who is a foreign spy!
Genre:	Superhero
Characters:	Phantom Lady [Sandra Knight] Don Borden Johnny (War Shipping Board Employee) Melinda Baron Torpe (villain)

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