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POLICE COMICS #18

Cover Date: April 1943
Cover Price: $0.10
Publication Date: 1943-02-12

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Cover Credits:
Art: Jack Cole


Story: [No Title] (13 Pages)

Credits:

StoryJack Cole
ArtJack Cole
LetteringJack Cole
EditingJohn Beardsley

Feature Character(s):

Plastic Man (becomes a full-time FBI special agent)

Supporting Character(s):

Woozy Winks
Police Captain Murphey (revealed he has exempted Plastic Man from the draft due to his crime-fighting activities)

Villain(s):

Pogo Flinch (first appearance; a crook with a prosthetic pogo stick for a leg)

Other Character(s):

President Franklin Roosevelt (asks Plas to join FBI full-time)

Location(s):

Mammoth City

Comment(s):

Plastic Man was shown to be an FBI agent (or at least in contact with them) as early as December 1941 (All-Star Squadron #1).

Story Reprinted in:

Plastic Man Archives #1 (1998)


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Second Story: [No Title] (10 Pages)

Credits:

ArtAl Bryant
EditingJohn Beardsley

Feature Character(s):

Manhunter

Supporting Character(s):

Thor, the Thunder Dog

Villain(s):

Judge Jupiter (first appearance; a retired judge who kills former defendants who got away with murder; dies)


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Third Story: [No Title] (7 Pages)

Credits:

StoryGeorge Brenner
ArtGeorge Brenner
EditingJohn Beardsley

Feature Character(s):

Destiny

Villain(s):

Frank N. Stein (first appearance; kills his brother for an inheritance; dresses up with a harness and a false head to appear taller)


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Fourth Story: "Golden Egg!" (6 Pages)

Credits:

ArtFrank Borth
EditingJohn Beardsley

Feature Character(s):

Phantom Lady

Supporting Character(s):

Don Borden
Senator Knight

Villain(s):

Bunny (Killer Dan; first appearance; a man dressed up in a bunny suit who uses exploding eggs to try and kill Senator Knight)

Location(s):

Senator Knight's mansion

Comment(s):

This story takes place in late April, 1943.


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Fifth Story: "The Man from Nowhere" (8 Pages)

Credits:

ArtVernon Henkel
EditingJohn Beardsley

Feature Character(s):

Chic Carter (next in National Comics #33)

Supporting Character(s):

Detective Monahan (next in ???)
Gay Nolan (next in ???)

Villain(s):

Killer Kane (first appearance; on his way to the electric chair; given a formula that turns him into a human mist; dies)
Kane's boss (first appearance; invents a formula to turn humans into mist; dies)

Comment(s):

The formula shown in this story may be similar to the one used by The Mist.


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Sixth Story: [No Title] (8 Pages)

Credits:

StoryPaul Gustavson
ArtPaul Gustavson
LetteringPaul Gustavson
EditingJohn Beardsley

Feature Character(s):

Human Bomb

Supporting Character(s):

Jean (invents a rocket car powered by dynamite)

Villain(s):

Three Mosquitos (first appearance for all three; Japanese, Italian and German spies who are very short; steal the rocket car and accidentally drive it to the moon)

Other Character(s):

An inventor friend of Jean's (first appearance; invents a rocket car with help from Jean)

Location(s):

Washington, DC


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