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Police Comics #53
| Additional Information | |
| Publication | April 1946 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 60 | Editing: George Brenner |
| Featuring | Plastic Man |
| Credits | Pencils: Jack Cole | Inks: Jack Cole |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Plastic Man [Patrick "Eel" O'Brian]; Woozy Winks |
| Comic Story | The Evil Genius of Dr. Erudite (15 pages) |
| Synopsis | Dr. Erudite clones a double of himself to help him commit crimes. |
| Featuring | Plastic Man |
| Credits | Script: Bill Woolfolk | Pencils: Jack Cole | Inks: Jack Cole | Letters: Jack Cole |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Plastic Man [Patrick "Eel" O'Brian]; Woozy Winks; Dr. Erudite (villain, introduction) |
| Comic Story | Sweet Sleep (6 pages) |
| Featuring | Flatfoot Burns |
| Credits | Script: Al Stahl | Pencils: Al Stahl | Inks: Al Stahl |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Detective-mystery | Characters: Flatfoot Burns |
| Comic Story | Caverns of Crime (6 pages) |
| Featuring | Human Bomb |
| Credits | Script: Paul Gustavson | Pencils: Paul Gustavson | Inks: Paul Gustavson |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Human Bomb [Roy Lincoln] |
| Comic Story | Van Jackson (7 pages) |
| Featuring | Candy |
| Credits | Script: Harry Sahle | Pencils: Harry Sahle | Inks: Harry Sahle |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Teen | Characters: Candy O'Connor |
| Featuring | Dewey Drip |
| Credits | Pencils: Bernard Dibble | Inks: Bernard Dibble |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Dewey Drip |
| Notes | Writer credit revised from "Joe Devlin" (presumably a typo for "John Devlin") to ? by Craig Delich 2013-4-7. The Who's Who does not indicate a writing credit for John Devlin on this strip. Artist correction from Joe Devlin to Bernard Dibble, who took over this strip in 1943 from John Devlin. |
| Text Story | Death At the Horse Show (2 pages) |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Crime |
| Notes | Dick Mace text story. |
| Comic Story | Dazeen, Master of Illusion (10 pages) |
| Featuring | Manhunter |
| Credits | Script: Bill Woolfolk | Pencils: Pete Riss |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Manhunter [Dan Richards]; VILLAIN: Dazeen (first appearance) |
| Notes | Credits from Martin O'Hearn at http://martinohearn.blogspot.com/ ; art formerly attributed to Al Bryant. |
| Comic Story | Package Delivery (1 page) |
| Featuring | Burp the Twerp |
| Credits | Script: Jack Cole | Pencils: Jack Cole | Inks: Jack Cole | Letters: Jack Cole |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Burp the Twerp |
| Comic Story | Murder on the Job (8 pages) |
| Featuring | The Spirit |
| Credits | Script: Bill Woolfolk | Pencils: Lou Fine | Inks: Quality Staff | Letters: Martin DeMuth |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: The Spirit [Denny Colt] |
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