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| Date | | Number: 4 | Lang: English (en) | |||
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| Name | Police Comics 4 | Published |
| Publication | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 68 | Frequency: monthly |
| Notes | Copyright 1941 by Comic Magazines, Inc. The on-sale date is the publication date reported in the U. S. Copyright Office filing. |
| Cover | 1 page |
| Genre | Superhero |
| Characters | The Firebrand [Rod Reilly]; Plastic Man [Patrick "Eel" O'Brian] (inset); Phantom Lady [Sandra Knight] (inset); Eagle Evans (inset); #711 [Daniel Dyce] (inset); The Human Bomb [Roy Lincoln] (inset) |
| Pencils | Gill Fox |
| Inks | Gill Fox |
| First Line | A new complete story of the Firebrand |
| Comic Story | Herr Strasse's Sea Island Spy Ring / Firebrand (11 pages) |
| Synopsis | Rod develops a combat bomber capable of taking off and landing with only 50 yards of airstrip available. After the Nazis attempt to steal the plane and the Firebrand steps in to stop that endeavor, the U.S. military orders 5000 of the aircraft. |
| Genre | Superhero |
| Characters | Firebrand [Rod Reilly]; the Nazis (villains) |
| Script | S. M. Iger |
| Pencils | Reed Crandall (signed) |
| Inks | Reed Crandall (signed) |
| First Line | Stark dangers beyond the realm of Rod Reilly's everyday life... |
| Comic Story | The Van Dern Pearls / #711 (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | Daniel learns of a plot to snatch the Van Dern pearls. |
| Genre | Adventure; Crime |
| Characters | #711 [Daniel Dyce] |
| Script | George Brenner (signed) |
| Pencils | George Brenner (signed) |
| Inks | George Brenner (signed) |
| Notes | Van Dern is the name of Batman's maternal family and the pearls are a symbol linked to his mother's death in more modern revelations. |
| Comic Story | The Yegg Beater / Super Snooper (1 page) |
| Genre | Humor |
| Script | Gill Fox (signed) |
| Pencils | Gill Fox (signed) |
| Inks | Gill Fox (signed) |
| Letters | Gill Fox ? |
| Comic Story | Defending the Dartmoor / Eagle Evans (7 pages) |
| Genre | Detective-mystery |
| Characters | Eagle Evans; Snap Smith |
| Pencils | Witmer Williams (signed) |
| Inks | Witmer Williams (signed) |
| First Line | Eagle Evans, famous American aviator... |
| Comic Story | Dr. Scratch of Demon Hill / Chic Carter (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | Dr. Scratch is trying to build an electronic brain, using the actual brains of famous scientists. Chic Carter, now abandoning his former role of the Sword and content just to be a reporter, tackles this eerie case. |
| Genre | Detective-mystery |
| Characters | Chic Carter; Gargoyle; Sir John Nienstine; Gay Nolan; Monahan; Dr. Scratch (villain) |
| Script | Vern Henkel (signed) |
| Pencils | Vern Henkel (signed) |
| Inks | Vern Henkel (signed) |
| Notes | Story riffs on Universal's Frankenstein movies, with Dr. Scratch in search of a brain, aided by his assistant Gargoyle (think Igor), with his intended target being Dr. Nienstine (rhymes with Frankenstein). |
| Comic Story | Crime School for Delinquent Girls / Plastic Man (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | Madam Brawn of the Crime School for Delinquent Girls campaigns to take over the protection racket in Windy City. Eel O'Brian manages to wiggle his way into the racket, but Plastic Man gets tied into knots before subduing the Madam. After Brawn manages to escape, Plas grants her leniency, but she vows to get revenge. |
| Genre | Superhero |
| Characters | Plastic Man [Patrick "Eel" O'Brian]; Madam Brawn (villain, introduction); Lefty Goon (villain, introduction) |
| Script | Jack Cole (signed) |
| Pencils | Jack Cole (signed) |
| Inks | John Belfi ? Jack Cole (signed) |
| Letters | Jack Cole (signed) |
| Notes | Belfi claimed (in Alter Ego #11, page 6) to be inking some Plastic Man stories at this date. The art does look rather different from Cole's complete pencil and ink jobs, so this may feature at least partial Belfi inks. |
| Story | Dewey Drip (1 page) |
| Genre | Humor |
| Characters | Dewey Drip |
| Script | John Devlin ? |
| Pencils | John Devlin |
| Inks | John Devlin |
| First Line | But Dewey -- what makes you think you'll do well in the tank corps? |
| Comic Story | McGaw's Proposition / Steele Kerrigan (5 pages) |
| Genre | Detective-mystery |
| Characters | Steele Kerrigan; Spike McGaw (villain); Cokey Marino (villain) |
| Pencils | Al Bryant (signed) |
| Inks | Al Bryant (signed) |
| First Line | The life of an ex-convict is a ceaseless struggle... |
| Comic Story | The Flash Photo Fixers / The Mouthpiece (6 pages) |
| Genre | Detective-mystery; Superhero |
| Characters | The Mouthpiece [Bill Perkins] |
| Script | Fred Guardineer (signed) |
| Pencils | Fred Guardineer (signed) |
| Inks | Fred Guardineer (signed) |
| Text Story | The Goof / Dick Mace (2 pages) |
| Pencils | ? (spot illustrations) |
| Inks | ? (spot illustrations) |
| Colors | ? (spot illustrations) |
| Letters | typeset |
| Characters | Dick Mace; Duffy the Goof (pilot) |
| Script | Robert Hyatt ? |
| Notes | Dick Mace text story. |
| Comic Story | The Dirigible of Doom / Phantom Lady (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | The Phantom Lady rescues Don and an ambassador from a dirigible on which some Nazis had planted a bomb. |
| Genre | Superhero |
| Characters | Phantom Lady [Sandra Knight]; Don Borden; un-named Anglican Ambassador; Kurtz (villain, death); Heine (villain, death) |
| Pencils | Art Peddy (signed) |
| Inks | Art Peddy (signed) |
| First Line | Glamorous Sandra Knight, daughter of a senator... |
| Comic Story | The Safety Pin Stealer / Burp the Twerp (1 page) |
| Genre | Humor |
| Characters | Burp the Twerp |
| Script | Jack Cole (signed) |
| Pencils | Jack Cole (signed) |
| Inks | John Belfi ? Jack Cole (signed) |
| Letters | Jack Cole (signed) |
| Story | The Human Bomb (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | Roy, an accomplished chemist in his own right, invents another explosive that scares his co-workers so much that he moves the experiment into his own private lab. It is formulated into a substance that is harmless on its own, but detonates when it comes in contact with Roy's hot hands. The substance is used to take down a Nazi vessel that the Human Bomb encounters en route to Havana. |
| Genre | Superhero |
| Characters | The Human Bomb [Roy Lincoln]; the Nazis (villains, some die) |
| Script | Paul Gustavson |
| Pencils | Will Eisner Lou Fine |
| Inks | Will Eisner Lou Fine |
| Letters | Paul Gustavson |
| First Line | At the laboratory in Washington... |
| 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. Art credits revised from Gustafson to Eisner-Fine by Craig Delich (per note below): "Upon examination of the original artwork to “Police Comics #4, page 62”, featuring The Human Bomb in the story: “The U-Boat Battle,” it indicates that this specific page, and likely the entire story, was illustrated by the combined talents of Will Eisner and Louis K. Fine and NOT by Paul Gustavson as originally credited to, although Paul Gustavson DID in fact write this particular story. Will Eisner's long-time publisher and art agent, Denis Kitchen, confirmed that “panel 1” from “Police Comics #4, page 62” looks incredibly like Will Eisner’s late 1930’S style of work as seen in the Quality Comics’ “Smash Comics” titles: “Espionage: Starring Black X” series, while the remaining panels featuring The Human Bomb in the heat of battle, resemble the style Lou Fine with the finely delineated line work, the broken-panel layouts, and the overall positioning of The Human Bomb." |
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