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Police Comics 11

POLICE COMICS #11

Cover Date: September 1942
Cover Price: $.10
Publication Date: 1942-07-03

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Cover Credits:
Art: Gill Fox


Story: [No Title] (9 Pages)

Credits:

StoryJack Cole
ArtJack Cole
LetteringJack Cole
EditingGill Fox

Feature Character(s):

Plastic Man

Villain(s):

Cyrus Smythe (a chemical researcher from the 1600s; first appearance; brain becomes immortal and placed in the body of Tad Wilkins, a young American soldier; able to grow to giant size; believed dead and buried again)

Comment(s):

This story takes place in 1942.


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Second Story: [No title] (5 Pages)

Credits:

StoryGeorge Brenner
ArtGeorge Brenner
LetteringGeorge Brenner
EditingGill Fox

Feature Character(s):

711

Villain(s):

The Runt (first appearance; a very short crime boss who gets caught and sent to Westmoor to silence two of his former goons; dies)
Dip and Drip (first appearance; two of the Runt's goons; Dip dies)

Location(s):

Westmoor Prison


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Third Story: [No Title] (6 Pages)

Credits:

StoryPaul Gustavson
ArtPaul Gustavson
LetteringPaul Gustavson
EditingGill Fox

Feature Character(s):

Human Bomb (next in All-Star Squadron #31)

Supporting Character(s):

Jean Caldwell

Villain(s):

Hoimen Schtrugmeyer (first appearance; a physicist; wrecks parts of Washington, DC to test his sonic flute weapon)

Location(s):

Washington, DC

Comment(s):

Roy wears his Navy dress uniform in this story.


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Fourth Story: [No title] (6 Pages)

Credits:

ArtAlex Kotzky
LetteringAlex Kotzky
EditingGill Fox

Feature Character(s):

Manhunter (Dan Richards; wears a costume with no mask or chest symbol; next, with his new standard costume, in All-Star Squadron #31)

Supporting Character(s):

Thor, the Thunder Dog
Kit Kelly
Jim Kelly

Villain(s):

Uriah Heap (first appearance; Prof. Hooker's crooked assistant; notifies a gangster about the gas)
I. Q. Matelli and his gang (first appearance for all; use the gas to commit crimes)

Other Character(s):

Prof. Hooker (first appearance; creates a new laughing gas; dies)

Comment(s):

Manhunter does not wear a mask in this story.


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Fifth Story: "The Monster of the Swamps" (6 Pages)

Credits:

StoryVernon Henkel
ArtVernon Henkel
LetteringVernon Henkel
EditingGill Fox

Feature Character(s):

Chic Carter

Supporting Character(s):

Gay Nolan (now Chic's fiancee)

Villain(s):

The Monster (Rocky; first appearance; uses the disguise of a swamp monster to try and scare people away from the loot he had buried there 10 years prior)

Location(s):

Coral Gables, FL


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Sixth Story: [No title] (5 Pages)

Credits:

StoryS. M. Iger
ArtLee J. Ames
EditingGill Fox

Feature Character(s):

Firebrand

Supporting Character(s):

Slugger Dunn
Joan Rogers

Villain(s):

White Gardinias (first appearance for all; a group of white hooded "Anti-Americans")


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Seventh Story: [No Title] (5 Pages)

Credits:

StoryFred Guardineer
ArtFred Guardineer
LetteringFred Guardineer
EditingGill Fox

Feature Character(s):

Mouthpiece

Villain(s):

Greaseball Bulloni (first appearance; crook who steals plans, working for the Nazis)


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Eighth Story: [No Title] (6 Pages)

Credits:

ArtArthur Peddy
LetteringArthur Peddy
EditingGill Fox

Feature Character(s):

Phantom Lady (last in All-Star Comics 80-Page Giant #1/3)

Supporting Character(s):

Don Borden (Sandra Knight's boyfriend)

Villain(s):

Fifth Columnists (first appearance for all)

Location(s):

Washington, DC


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