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Publisher: Quality Comics

Title: Police Comics
Issue: 1
Page Count: 68
Publish Date: August 1941
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Police Comics #1
Owner: RedFury

818
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7.5
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Police Comics (1st Phantom Lady and 1st Plastic Man)
Owner: changerchanger

679
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3.5
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Police Comics #1
Owner: Harley Troy

977
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3.0
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Police Comics #1
Owner: walclark

890
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7.0
CGC



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Story Title: Introducing The Firebrand - cover
Pages:1
Genre:superhero
Characters:The Firebrand [Rod Reilly]; Plastic Man [Patrick "Eel" O'Brian] (inset); The Human Bomb [Roy Lincoln] (inset); Phantom Lady [Sandra Knight] (inset); The Mouthpiece [Bill Perkins] (inset)


Story Title: Introducing the Firebrand - comic story
Pages:11
Genre:superhero
Characters:The Firebrand [Rod Reilly] (introduction); Slugger Dunn (introduction, ex-prize fighter); "Emerald" Ed Reilly (introduction, Rod's father, steel tycoon); Joan Rogers (introduction, Rod's fiancee); Baron von Hanson (villain); Sylvester Cole (villain); Dave (villain, death); Dippy Dolan (villain, pickpocket)
Synopsis:Firebrand's break-up of a window washer's racket leads him to bigger fish, who are attempting to steal a fortune in diamonds.


Story Title: The Origin of #711 - comic story
Pages:6
Genre:adventure; crime
Characters:#711 [Daniel Dyce] (introduction, origin); un-named district attorney; Mary Horn (Jacob's wife, not seen); Jacob Horn (villain, death); "Slick" Panzer (villain)
Synopsis:Dan agrees to take the rap for a soon-to-be-father, who agrees to give himself up to the law after seeing his newborn and wife. But when he is killed in an accident, prisoner #711 decides to remain behind bars and fight crime from there, in this case against Slick Panzer, who has swindled a widow out of $250,000.


Story Title: Dr. M. Balm's Man-Eating Plant - comic story
Pages:1
Genre:humor
Characters:Super Snooper (introduction); Dr. M. Balm (villain)
Synopsis:An evil doctor creates a flesh-eating flower and sends it to Super Snooper to rid himself of the crime fighter.


Story Title: The Attack of Ali Harid - comic story
Pages:7
Genre:detective-mystery
Characters:Eagle Evans (introduction); Snap Smith (introduction, cameraman); un-named U.S. army general; un-named Libyan prince; Ali Harid (villain)
Synopsis:Evans and Snap head to Cyranis to photograph enemy movements and activity, but when they return with photos for the general, they are arrested for violating a treaty with Ali Harid. They escape, team up with a Libyan prince and prevent Harid's planned actions.


Story Title: The Legend of the Black Baron - comic story
Pages:6
Genre:detective-mystery
Characters:Chic Carter [The Sword] (reporter); Curtis Randall (art collector, death); Detective Monahan; Hodges (Curtis Randall's butler, death); Betty Randall; Damon (cousin); The Black Baron [Harvey Randall] (villain, death)
Synopsis:When Curtis Randall decides to change his will and give away his entire art collection, he is seemingly murdered by a suit of armor belonging to one of his ancestors. Chic is present for the reading of Randall's will and uncovers a murder plot by the deceased's brother Harvey, The Black Baron, wearing a skull mask, tries to claim his brother's fortune but falls to his death in the end.


Story Title: The Origin of Plastic Man - comic story
Pages:6
Genre:superhero
Characters:Plastic Man [Patrick "Eel" O'Brian] (introduction, origin, reformed villain); un-named monk; Skizzle Shanks (villain); Skizzle Shank's mob (villains)
Synopsis:While escaping from a crime scene, Eel O'Brian has a vat of acid dumped on his head, giving him the ability to stretch his body. Eel decides he doesn't want to be a criminal anymore and uses his newly found powers to capture his former partners in crime.


Story Title: The Redemption of Steele Kerrigan - comic story
Pages:6
Genre:detective-mystery
Characters:Steele Kerrigan (introduction, origin); Anne (introduction); un-named prison warden; Spike (villain); Torpedo (villain)
Synopsis:Imprisoned for having taken the rap for a gang of robbers he was working as a lookout for, Kerrigan saves the life of the warden and is paroled. But he is quickly approached by Spike and his gang, who kidnap Betty and manage to convince the authorities that Kerrigan was in on another job, the same day he was released.


Story Title: The Alien Smuggling Racket - comic story
Pages:6
Genre:detective-mystery; superhero
Characters:The Mouthpiece [Bill Perkins] (introduction, district attorney); Smokey Joe (villain); Captain Peg-Leg Friel (villain, death)
Synopsis:D.A. Perkins dons a mask and cape in order to get the goods on a brutal alien smuggling racket, spearheaded by Peg-Leg Friel, who smuggled European refugees inside fish carcasses! When Peg-Leg attempts to escape, the Mouthpiece thinks nothing of harpooning the dastardly villain.


Story Title: Vengeance - text story
Pages:2
Pencils:? (spot illustrations)
Inks:? (spot illustrations)
Letters:typeset
Genre:adventure
Characters:Dick Mace (introduction); Albert Brancourt (weathy diamond merchant, death); Mrs. Grancourt (Albert's wife, death); two un-named children of Albert Brancourt (both die); Adrian Grancourt (Albert's oldest son, death); Vivienne Grancourt (Albert's 9-year old daughter, death); Pierre LaFonde (villain, printer, death)
Synopsis:Two former French army majors become bitter enemies after the war, and one of them, Pierre LaFonde, swears revenge after being cheated out of a fabulously valuable diamond mine.


Story Title: The Coming of the Phantom Lady - comic story
Pages:6
Genre:superhero
Characters:The Phantom Lady [Sandra Knight] (introduction); Senator Henry Knight (introduction, Sandra's father); Don Borden (introduction, State Department investigator); Dr. Raphael (inventor); Wenner (villain, death); Pete (villain, Raphael's assistant, death)
Synopsis:The Phantom Lady rescues a kidnapped scientist who has developed a uranium explosive.


Story Title: [ no title ] - comic story
Pages:1
Genre:humor
Characters:Dewey Dip (introduction); Mr. Drip; Mrs. Drip; Lulu (Dewey's girl)
Synopsis:Dewey gets a letter from the government informing him that he has been drafted.


Story Title: The Origin of the Human Bomb - comic story
Pages:6
Genre:superhero
Characters:The Human Bomb [Roy Lincoln] (introduction, origin); Professor Lincoln (Roy's father, death); Fritz (villain, death); Baldy (villain); Riker (villain); un-named Axis consul (villain, death)
Synopsis:An Axis consul makes several attempts to steal a new explosive capsule invented by the late Professor Lincoln, but, in the end, he is on the receiving end of its power.


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