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Police Comics 23

POLICE COMICS #23

Cover Date: October 1943
Cover Price: $.10
Publication Date: 1943-08-13

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Cover Credits:
Art: Jack Cole (signed)


Story: [No Title] (15 Pages)

Credits:

StoryJack Cole
PencilsJack Cole
InksJohn Belfi
LetteringJack Cole
EditingGeorge Brenner

Feature Character(s):

Plastic Man (disguises himself as Snout Sniggins, a crook)

Supporting Character(s):

Woozy Winks

Villain(s):

Snout Sniggins and his gang (first appearance for all)
J. Noble Wopps (first appearance; owner of the railway; tries to force it into bankruptcy so he can buy it cheaply)

Other Character(s):

Caprice Corbett (first appearance; a WAACS agent moving a payroll on the train that is being haunted by Snout Sniggins' gang)

Location(s):

Mammoth City

Story Reprinted in:

Plastic Man Archives #2 (2000)


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Second Story: [No Title] (6 Pages)

Credits:

ArtMort Leav
EditingGeorge Brenner

Feature Character(s):

Human Bomb

Supporting Character(s):

Hustace Throckmorton

Villain(s):

Wode Wikard (first appearance; a crook who escapes jail)
Molla (first appearance; a female gang member who helps spring him)


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Third Story: [No title] (5 Pages)

Credits:

EditingGeorge Brenner

Feature Character(s):

Destiny

Villain(s):

Baby Face Morgan (first appearance; a vicious gangster; dies)


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Fourth Story: [No Title] (6 Pages)

Credits:

ArtRudy Palais
EditingGeorge Brenner

Feature Character(s):

Phantom Lady (next, Pre-Crisis in Justice League of America #107; Post-Crisis, next in flashback in Freedom Fighters Vol. 2 #4)

Supporting Character(s):

Senator Knight
Don Borden

Villain(s):

Four crooks (first appearance for all; pose as the Knight household servants)

Location(s):

Washington, DC

Comment(s):

This is the final Phantom Lady story published by Quality Comics in the Golden Age.


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Fifth Story: "The Murdering Rhymester!" (10 Pages)

Credits:

ArtJohn Cassone
EditingGeorge Brenner

Feature Character(s):

Manhunter (Dan Richards)

Supporting Character(s):

Thor, the Thunder Dog

Villain(s):

The Rhymester (Frank Smith; first appearance; kills his partners and frames the son of a wronged inventor)


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