Digital Comic Museum > Police Comics 011 (paper)

Issue: #11
Published: September 1942, Price: 0.10 USD, Pages: 68, Editing: Gill Fox [as Gilbert Fox]
Color: Color Dimensions: Standard Golden Age US Paper Stock: 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 \| Colours: Gill Fox
Genre:	Superhero
Characters:	Plastic Man [Patrick "Eel" O'Brian] The Spirit [Denny Colt] (inset) Manhunter [Dan Richards] (inset) #711 [Daniel Dyce] (inset) Chic Carter (inset) The Human Bomb [Roy Lincoln] (inset)

Comic Story (9 pages)	The Brain of Cyrus Smythe
Featuring:	Plastic Man
Synopsis:	Cyrus Smythe was a super-powered villain who was killed in 1642 by a monster of his own creation, and left in a vat of chemicals that allowed his body to die but the brain to remain alive. Soldier Tad Wilkins died centuries later near the grave of Smythe, and medics mistakenly implanted Smythe's brain into Wilkins and Smythe assumed the soldier's life in America. Soon he came into conflict with Plastic Man and his body died.....but the living brain was once again buried.
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] Captain Murphey (Mammoth City Policeman) Tad Wilkins (introduction, Death) Mr. Wilkins (death) Mrs. Wilkins (death) Valda Shirley Father Time (cameo) Cyrus Smythe (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)	The Runt's Revenge
Featuring:	#711
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] The Runt (villain)

Comic Story (5 pages)
Featuring:	The Human Bomb
Synopsis:	The Human Bomb faces his first costumed super villain, a master of physics who plays a destructive flute.
Credits:	Script: Paul Gustavson [as Paul Carrol] (signed) \| Pencils: Paul Gustavson [as Paul Carrol] (signed) \| Inks: Paul Gustavson [as Paul Carol] (signed) \| Letters: Paul Gustavson
Genre:	Superhero
Characters:	The Human Bomb [Roy Lincoln] Hoiman Schtrugmeyer (villain)

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

Comic Story (6 pages)	The Laughing Gas Crimes
Featuring:	Manhunter
Synopsis:	Professor Hooker invents a laughing gas that is stolen by his lab assistant. Soon, Manhunter is on the trail and he discovers the antidote to the gas: onions!
Credits:	Pencils: Alex Kotzky (signed) \| Inks: Alex Kotzky (signed)
Genre:	Superhero
Characters:	Manhunter [Dan Richards] Thor Professor Hooker Matelli Egghead Jim Kelly Kit Kelly Chief Brannigan Uriah Heap (villain, The Professor's Assistant)

Comic Story (1 page)	Killer Kane
Featuring:	Burp the Twerp
Credits:	Script: Jack Cole \| Pencils: Jack Cole \| Inks: Jack Cole \| Letters: Jack Cole
Genre:	Humor
Characters:	Burp The Twerp

Comic Story (7 pages)	The Origin of the Spirit
Featuring:	The Spirit
Credits:	Script: Will Eisner \| Pencils: Will Eisner \| Inks: Will Eisner \| Colours: Joe Kubert \| Letters: Zoltan Szenics ?
Genre:	Superhero
Characters:	The Spirit [Denny Colt] (introduction, Origin) Commissioner Eustace Dolan (introduction) Ebony White (introduction, Unnamed) Dr. Cobra (villain, Introduction)

Comic Story (6 pages)	The Monster of the Swamps
Featuring:	Chic Carter
Credits:	Script: Vernon Henkel \| Pencils: Vernon Henkel \| Inks: Vernon Henkel
Genre:	Detective-mystery
Characters:	VILLAIN: The Swamp Monster (intro Rocky Green)

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

Comic Story (5 pages)	The White Gardenias
Featuring:	The Firebrand
Synopsis:	Firebrand must battle a local hate group that is attempting to halt the activities of a U.S. Senator that promises to expose the group.
Credits:	Script: S. M. Iger \| Pencils: Lee J. Ames (signed) \| Inks: Lee J. Ames (signed)
Genre:	Superhero
Characters:	The Firebrand [Rod Reilly] Slugger Dunn Joan Rogers Senator Barrow The White Gardenias [Senator Beep Others](villains)

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

Comic Story (5 pages)	The Murder of Malcom Munsey
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] Malcom Munsey (death)

Comic Story (6 pages)	The Spy Ring Murder
Featuring:	Phantom Lady
Synopsis:	Sandra and Don witness the murder of a U.S. intelligence officer who had been working on the suspected sabotage of an American re-fueling station. The Phantom Lady discovers some Nazis are responsible and they are operating through the office of a wealthy jeweler.
Credits:	Pencils: Arthur Peddy (signed) \| Inks: Arthur Peddy (signed)
Genre:	Superhero
Characters:	Phantom Lady [Sandra Knight] Don Borden Lieutenant Bob Forbes (of U.S. Intelligence, Death) The Nazis (villains)

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