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| Date | | Number: 17 | Lang: English (en) | |||
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| Name | Police Comics 17 | Published |
| Publication | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 68 | Frequency: monthly |
| 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. |
| Cover | 1 page |
| Genre | Superhero |
| Characters | Plastic Man [Patrick "Eel" O'Brian]; The Spirit [Denny Colt] |
| Pencils | Jack Cole (signed) |
| Inks | Jack Cole (signed) |
| First Line | Hey fellows... Don't forget, I'm the Spirit! |
| Story | Plastic Man (13 pages) |
| Synopsis | Plas and Woozy go to a haunted mansion to solve a murder mystery. |
| Genre | Superhero |
| Characters | Plastic Man [Eel O'Brian]; Woozy Winks; Director Steinmetz (dies); Gar Crochett; Dave (dies); Mrs. Dave; Stanley Vane |
| Script | Jack Cole |
| Pencils | Jack Cole |
| Inks | Jack Cole |
| Letters | Jack Cole |
| First Line | Lock your doors! Draw the shades! And grab a pencil, dear reader! |
| Comic Story | Red-Haired Kate / Manhunter (10 pages) |
| Synopsis | Manhunter runs into a killer vamp who carries a whip. |
| Genre | Superhero |
| Characters | Manhunter [Dan Richards]; Red Haired Kate (villain, introduction) |
| Pencils | Al Bryant ? |
| Inks | Al Bryant ? |
| Notes | Manhunter appears in the story without a mask and the shorts he wore in #15-16 are oddly not present. |
| Story | Dewey Drip (1 page) |
| Synopsis | While his fellow soldiers disguise themselves as trees and bushes, Dewey puts on a giant woodpecker costume as camouflage. |
| Genre | Humor; Military |
| Characters | Dewey Drip; Sergeant; General; Kelly |
| Script | Bernard Dibble ? |
| Pencils | Bernard Dibble |
| Inks | Bernard Dibble |
| First Line | You guys are gonna show the general what you've learned about camouflage! |
| Notes | Script credit changed to Bernard Dibble ? by D. Wilt 2018-5-19. Based on internal evidence, Dibble seems to have written much of his comic strip and comic book work. |
| Comic Story | Have You Seen Him? / Destiny (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | Destiny, relaxing in his comfortable and spacious home, suddenly is put upon by the killer of 711, Oscar Jones. When he attempts to enter his "trance" state and disappear, he discovers that he has remained in place. Laying in wait for Destiny, Jones grazes Destiny with a bullet, then escapes to go on a killing spree. In the end, Jones is captured and 711 is avenged. |
| Genre | Detective-mystery; Superhero |
| Characters | Destiny; Oscar Jones (villain) |
| Script | George Brenner (signed) |
| Pencils | George Brenner (signed) |
| Inks | George Brenner (signed) |
| Comic Story | The Black Widow / Burp the Twerp (1 page) |
| Genre | Humor |
| Characters | Burp the Twerp |
| Script | Jack Cole |
| Pencils | Jack Cole |
| Inks | Jack Cole |
| Letters | Jack Cole |
| Comic Story | The Orphans / The Spirit (7 pages) |
| Genre | Superhero |
| Characters | The Spirit [Denny Colt] |
| Script | Will Eisner |
| Pencils | Will Eisner |
| Inks | Will Eisner |
| Colors | Joe Kubert |
| Letters | Sam Rosen |
| Comic Story | Mystery of the Black Cat! / Phantom Lady (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | Sandra is reading Edgar Allan Poe's classic "Black Cat" to some dinner guests when the cry of a cat is heard outside, and when one of the guests investigates, he is killed and lies on the ground with claw marks on his face. Phantom Lady discovers that two thugs, hired by the Nazis, were attempting to plant a bomb in Senator Knight's home. |
| Genre | Superhero |
| Characters | Phantom Lady [Sandra Knight]; Senator Knight; Don Borden; Carl (death); two un-named thugs (villains) |
| Pencils | Frank Borth (signed) |
| Inks | Frank Borth (signed) |
| Comic Story | Chic Carter and the Voice from the Grave! / Chic Carter (8 pages) |
| Genre | Detective-mystery |
| Script | Vern Henkel |
| Pencils | Vern Henkel |
| Inks | Vern Henkel |
| Text Story | The Madman / Dick Mace (1.8 pages) |
| Letters | typeset |
| Genre | Detective-mystery |
| Characters | Dick Mace |
| Script | Robert Hyatt ? |
| Story | Super Snooper (1 page) |
| Genre | Humor |
| Script | Gill Fox |
| Pencils | Gill Fox |
| Inks | Gill Fox |
| Letters | Gill Fox ? |
| First Line | Say, you little runt where is Ten Grove Street? |
| Story | The Human Bomb (8 pages) |
| Synopsis | When newspapermen Olson and Larson get a picture of Roy Lincoln donning the uniform of the Human Bomb, Hustace decides to throw the newsmen off the trail by pretending he is the Human Bomb and destroying property with his powers. |
| Genre | Superhero |
| Characters | The Human Bomb [Roy Lincoln]; Hustace Throckmorton; Olaf Olson (newspaperman); Lars Larson (newspaperman) |
| Script | Paul Gustavson |
| Pencils | Paul Gustavson |
| Inks | Paul Gustavson |
| Letters | Paul Gustavson |
| First Line | Olaf Olson and Lars Larson are two reporters from Missouri -- |
| Notes | Mike Kooiman and Jim Amash state in the Quality Companion that Gustavson created the strip and wrote it. Gustavson's son, Terry Gustafson, concurs. |
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