Police Comics #14
| Additional Information | |
| Publication | December 1942 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 68 | Frequency: Monthly | Editing: John Beardsley |
| Notes | Copyright 1942 by Comic Magazines, Inc. |
| Featuring | Plastic Man |
| Credits | Pencils: Gill Fox | Inks: Gill Fox |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Plastic Man [Patrick "Eel" O'Brian]; Chic Carter (inset); The Human Bomb [Roy Lincoln] (inset); #711 [Daniel Dyce] (inset); Manhunter [Dan Richards] (inset); The Spirit [Denny Colt] (inset) |
| Comic Story | Oh, Plastic Man! (13 pages) |
| Synopsis | Woozy and Plastic Man set out to capture Eel O'Brian. |
| Featuring | Plastic Man |
| Credits | Script: Jack Cole | Pencils: Jack Cole | Inks: Jack Cole | Letters: Jack Cole |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Plastic Man [Patrick "Eel" O'Brian]; Woozy Winks; Captain Murphey [aka Captain Murphy]; Officer Mike |
| Comic Story | The Mark of the Cobra (10 pages) |
| Synopsis | The producer at the opera is bumped off by a poisonous spring needle in his opera seat. |
| Featuring | Manhunter |
| Credits | Pencils: Vernon Henkel |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Manhunter [Dan Richards]; Thor; Clancy; VILLAIN: The Cobra [Hal Kant] (first appearance) |
| Notes | Hal Kant named after comics editor Hal Kanter. Originally credited to Jim Mooney, but he has rounder and more relaxed faces than this, as in Tales of the Unexpected #35. The staring scary eyes can be none other than Vernon Henkel. Also the very thin and broad hat brims are his, only the inking is different. Compare with his signed Chic Carter story in this issue. |
| Comic Story | Mr. Chameleon (8 pages) |
| Synopsis | Roy's former chemistry teacher goes mad and invents an invisibility cloak and a disintegrating light gun. He attacks the Human Bomb as the Chameleon, and dies when he accidently touches Roy's bare skin. |
| Featuring | The Human Bomb |
| Credits | Script: Paul Gustavson | Pencils: Paul Gustavson | Inks: Paul Gustavson |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: The Human Bomb [Roy Lincoln]; Mr. Chameleon [Professor Thorndyke] (villain, introduction, death) |
| Notes | The Human Bomb is now out of the Navy. Even though the Who's Who doesn't list Gustavson as a writer of the strip, Mike Kooiman and Jim Amash state in the Quality Companion that he created the strip and wrote it, so the question mark behind the name has been removed by Craig Delich 2013-1-19. |
| Comic Story | "I've got you, Philthy Phil" (1 page) |
| Featuring | Burp The Twerp |
| Credits | Script: Jack Cole | Pencils: Jack Cole | Inks: Jack Cole |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
| Comic Story | Eldas Thayer (7 pages) |
| Featuring | The Spirit |
| Credits | Script: Will Eisner | Pencils: Will Eisner | Inks: Will Eisner | Colors: Joe Kubert | Letters: Sam Rosen |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: The Spirit [Denny Colt]; Eldas Thayer (villain) |
| Comic Story | "Red Pastrami, former gangster, today opened a restaurant" (1 page) |
| Featuring | Super Snooper |
| Credits | Script: Gill Fox | Pencils: Gill Fox | Inks: Gill Fox | Letters: Gill Fox? |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
| Comic Story | The Escape of Goon McGirk (7 pages) |
| Featuring | #711 |
| Credits | Script: George Brenner | Pencils: George Brenner | Inks: George Brenner |
| Content | Genre: Superhero |
| Text Story | Who Killed Jed Hathaway? (2 pages) |
| Featuring | Dick Mace |
| Credits | Script: Robert Hyatt? | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Detective-mystery | Characters: Dick Mace |
| Comic Story | Enter Julio (8 pages) |
| Featuring | Chic Carter |
| Credits | Pencils: Vernon Henkel | Inks: Vernon Henkel |
| Content | Genre: Detective-mystery |
| Comic Story | "My cousin Whiskers is on his way to visit Dewey" (1 page) |
| Featuring | Dewey Drip |
| Credits | Pencils: John Devlin | Inks: John Devlin |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Dewey Drip |
| Notes | Writer revision from John Devlin to ? by Craig Delich 2013-4-7. The Who's Who does not indicate a writing credit for Devlin on this strip. |
| Comic Story | The West Point Incident (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | Phantom Lady must stop a group of foreign agents, who are lacing soldiers' stew at West Point with Mickey Finns. |
| Featuring | Phantom Lady |
| Credits | Pencils: Joe Kubert | Inks: Joe Kubert |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Phantom Lady [Sandra Knight]; Priscilla Knight (Sandra's spinster Aunt); Major Atchinson (commander at West Point); Mr. Schott (villain); Dippy (villain) |
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