| Additional Information |
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| Publication | November 1943 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: Monthly |
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| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Plastic Man [Patrick "Eel" O'Brian] |
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| Comic Story | The Hundred Plastic Men (15 pages) |
| Synopsis | Woozy briefly gains Plas's powers while a weird doctor creates his own Plastic Men out of reclaimed rubber, controlling them with robotics. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Plastic Man [Patrick "Eel" O'Brian]; Woozy Winks; Pinky Flowers (villain, introduction); Louie (villain); Mike (villain); Dr. Phineas T. Gleason (villain, introduction) |
| Notes | Story is signed "Jack Cole". |
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| Synopsis | Ma cooks up a "health-food cake" and sends it to Dewey in Army camp. He feeds it to his colonel, hoping to get off garbage duty. His plan fails. |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Military | Characters: Dewey Drip; Ma Drip; Pappy Drip; Colonel |
| Notes | Writing credit formerly Joe [Jack] Devlin, who drew but did not write the strip (according to Bails) through 1942. Artist correction from Joe Devlin to Bernard Dibble, who took over in 1943. |
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| Comic Story | The Kidnapping of Ebony (7 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: The Spirit [Denny Colt] |
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| Content | Genre: Detective-mystery; Superhero | Characters: Destiny |
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| Comic Story | The Amnesiac (10 pages) |
| Synopsis | Manhunter begins working closely with the Police Department and is given special access to their files. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Manhunter [Dan Richards] |
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| Comic Story | Strong Man for Hire (1 page) |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Burp the Twerp |
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| Text Story | Sabotage (2 pages) |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Detective-mystery | Characters: Dick Mace |
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| Comic Story | Blackout Burglary (6 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Detective-mystery | Characters: Flatfoot Burns |
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| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Cyclone Cupid |
| Notes | Final appearance. Cyclone Cupid usually appeared in National Comics (Quality Comics, 1940 Series), but the final episode is here in Police Comics. |
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| Comic Story | Hearts and Sluggers (8 pages) |
| Synopsis | The Human Bomb helps Hustace win back his girlfriend by pitting the weakling against his rival, a boxer. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: The Human Bomb [Roy Lincoln]; Hustace Throckmorton; Honeybun |
| Notes | This is Leav. He draws large hands, many lively faces, some panels without backgrounds, and a special way of running with high lifted legs. Compare with his signed story in Wanted Comics #52. |
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