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POLICE COMICS #1
Cover Date: August 1941
Cover Price: $.10
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Cover Credits:
Art: Gill Fox
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Credits:
| Story | S. M. Iger |
| Art | Reed Crandall |
| Lettering | Reed Crandall |
| Editing | Gill Fox |
Feature Character(s):
- Firebrand (Rod Reilly; first appearance; a wealthy playboy; last in Secret Origins Vol. 2 #28/2)
Supporting Character(s):
- Slugger Dunn (first appearance; Rod's bodyguard)
- Joan Rogers (first appearance; Rod's girlfriend)
- "Emerald" Ed Reilly (first appearance; Rod's father)
- Mrs. Reilly (first appearance; Rod's mother)
Villain(s):
- Union racketeers (first appearance for all)
Location(s):
- New York City, NY
Credits:
| Story | George Brenner |
| Art | George Brenner |
| Lettering | George Brenner |
| Editing | Gill Fox |
Feature Character(s):
- 711 (first appearance; an attorney who is imprisoned instead of his acquaintance)
Villain(s):
- Slick Panzer (first appearance; a swindler)
Other Character(s):
- Jacob Horn (first appearance; changes places with Dyce; dies)
Location(s):
- Westmoor Prison (first appearance)
Comment(s):
- Dyce is imprisoned two years before the later part of this story.
Credits:
| Story | Vernon Henkel |
| Art | Vernon Henkel |
| Lettering | Vernon Henkel |
| Editing | Gill Fox |
Feature Character(s):
- Chic Carter (last in Smash Comics #26)
Supporting Character(s):
- Detective Monahan
Villain(s):
- Harvey Randall (first appearance; murders his brother and other heirs; dies)
Other Character(s):
- Curtis Randall (first appearance; an elderly art collector; dies)
Location(s):
Credits:
| Story | Jack Cole |
| Art | Jack Cole |
| Lettering | Jack Cole |
| Editing | Gill Fox |
Feature Character(s):
- Plastic Man (Eel O'Brian; first appearance; a crook who is altered into a stretchable hero)
Villain(s):
- Eel's gang (first appearance for all)
Location(s):
- Crawford Chemical Works (first appearance)
Story Reprinted in:
- DC Special #15 (November-December 1971)
- Plastic Man Archives #1 (1998)
- Millennium Edition: Police Comics No. 1 (September 2000)
- Plastic Man 80-Page Giant #1 (January 2004)
Credits:
| Story | Fred Guardineer |
| Art | Fred Guardineer |
| Lettering | Fred Guardineer |
| Editing | Gill Fox |
Feature Character(s):
- Mouthpiece (Bill Perkins; first appearance; a young district attorney who fights crime as a masked mystery man)
Villain(s):
- Pegleg Friel (first appearance; smuggler of illegal aliens; dies)
Credits:
| Art | Arthur Peddy |
| Lettering | Arthur Peddy |
| Editing | Gill Fox |
Feature Character(s):
- Phantom Lady (Sandra Knight; first appearance; a debutante; last in flashback in Starman Secret Files #1)
Supporting Character(s):
- Senator Knight (first appearance; a US Senator)
- Don Borden (first appearance; a State Department investigator)
Villain(s):
- Wenner (first appearance; tries to steal a bomb formula; dies)
Location(s):
- Washington, DC
Comment(s):
- First appearance of Phantom Lady's Black Light Ray.
Credits:
| Story | Paul Gustavson |
| Art | Paul Gustavson |
| Lettering | Paul Gustavson |
| Editing | Gill Fox |
Feature Character(s):
- Human Bomb (Roy Lincoln; first appearance; a chemist assisting his father who swallows a secret explosive formula, 27-QRX)
Villain(s):
- Axis spies (first appearance for all; nearly all die)
Other Character(s):
- B. Lincoln (first appearance; Roy's father; developer of 27-QRX; dies)
Location(s):
- Washington, DC