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Issue: Police Comics #11 Public Domain
Publication Date: September 1942
 
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Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagQuality Comics
Indicia Publisher: Comic Magazines Inc.
On Sale Date: 07/03/1942
Volume: none
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 20 (14 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: Copyright 1942 by Comic Magazines, Inc.

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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Golden Age US
Paper Stock: glossy covers; newsprint interiors
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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reprinted from a Content Item in another Issue.
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
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Subject Matter
superhero
#711 [Daniel Dyce] (inset); Chic Carter (inset)
Starring Plastic Man greatest comic magazine character
Reprinting
FlagPlastic Man Archives #1 [First Printing] published February 1998
as Cover - Police Comics #11 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
 
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Art credits confirmed by Gill Fox. Fox's color guides were found with the original art.
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Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
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typeset
Subject Matter
Give yourself a 'break'!
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Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Mickey Finn; Phil Finn; Lala Palooza (inset); Spin Shaw (inset); Samar (inset)
Buy it now from your regular newsdealer
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0.5
Feature Comics #59.
The Brain of Cyrus Smythe

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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Subject Matter
superhero
Captain Murphey (Mammoth City Policeman); Tad Wilkins (introduction, death); Mr. Wilkins (death); Mrs. Wilkins (death); Valda; Shirley; Father Time (cameo); Cyrus Smythe (villain, introduction); Zither; Si Ray
Out of the past comes a menace of giant proportions to threaten the life of every mortal in the land!!
Cyrus Smythe was a super-powered villain who was killed in 1642 by a monster of his own creation, and left in a vat of chemicals that allowed his body to die but the brain to remain alive. Soldier Tad Wilkins died centuries later near the grave of Smythe, and medics mistakenly implanted Smythe's brain into Wilkins and Smythe assumed the soldier's life in America. Soon he came into conflict with Plastic Man and his body died.....but the living brain was once again buried.
Reprinting
FlagPlastic Man Archives #1 [First Printing] published February 1998
as The Brain of Cyrus Smythe [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
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DC villain, the Ultra-Humanite, also had a mobile brain, first appearing in Action Comics #20 (1940).

A similar freak, Giganta, appeared in Wonder Woman #9 (1944), having elements of both size-changing and brain transference.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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Subject Matter
humorous
Dewey Drip; Mr. Drip; Mrs. Drip; General Fitz-Frogfuzz
Mah boy in the army camp says yer boy, Dewey, is now the general nuisance of the camp!
Dewey's maw thinks he has become a general.
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1
The Runt's Revenge

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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Subject Matter
adventure, crime, superhero
#711 [Daniel Dyce]; The Runt (villain); Drip; Dip
Say, what's dis I hear about da 'runt' bein' sent up here for a stretch?
The Runt has gotten himself transferred to the prison to kill some talkative underlings.
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
superhero
Hoiman Schtrugmeyer (villain)
Huh? Stop sta-a-a-a-r-r-ring...It is annoying me!!
The Human Bomb faces his first costumed super villain, a master of physics who plays a destructive flute.
Reprinting
 
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5
The Quality Companion states Gustavson created the strip and wrote it.
The Tire Thieves

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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Subject Matter
mystery
Steele Kerrigan; Anne; Bugsy Williams; Dippy Stahl; Mr. Stanton; Fritz
We'll leave the car here, Anne, while I see you off!
Steele comes across a gang of tire thieves.
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5
The Laughing Gas Crimes

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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superhero
Professor Hooker; I. Q. Matelli; Egghead; Jim Kelly; Kit Kelly; Chief Brannigan; Uriah Heap (villain, the professor's assistant)
Ha.. ha!! It's completed, Uriah, completed! Ho.. ha.. ha!
Professor Hooker invents a laughing gas that is stolen by his lab assistant. Soon, Manhunter is on the trail and he discovers the antidote to the gas: onions!
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Manhunter wears new costume without a mask, red armlets or chest symbol (which has moved onto his belt).
Killer Kane

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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Subject Matter
humorous
Burp the Twerp; Killer Kane; Joe
My super crime compass tells me an axe murder is being committed five miles due east!
Kane has to kill someone to keep his reputation as a killer.
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
1
The Origin of the Spirit

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
superhero
Leeng; Kelly; Happy; O'Rourke; Pokey; Gimp
Good evening, Commissioner Dolan... may I come in?
Denny Colt is exposed to Dr. Cobra's serum, apparently dies, and comes back to fight crime as the Spirit.
Reprinting
FlagThe Spirit #6/2/1940 [Philadelphia Record] published June 1940
was The Origin of the Spirit [Story on Interior Page(s) with IFC and Front Cover]
 
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This appears to be the first "The Spirit" story to receive national magazine distribution. The original newspaper comic-book inserts appeared in only a handful of markets, and none were further west than Minneapolis.

Ebony White, the hero's future sidekick, appears in only one panel as an unnamed cab driver. The character, who is African-American, was written and drawn as a racist caricature.
The Monster of the Swamps

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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Subject Matter
mystery
Peter Miles; Chic Carter; Gay Nolan; Nick; The Swamp Monster [Rocky Green] (intro, villain)
Chic and Gay check out a legend of a swamp monster.
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Miscellaneous
6
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Subject Matter
humorous
Super Snooper
Y'gotta help me, Snooper! My assistant is stealin' my gas!
Super Snooper has to figure out how a man is stealing gas.
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
1
The White Gardenias

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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Subject Matter
superhero
Slugger Dunn; Joan Rogers; Senator Barrow; The White Gardenias [Senator Beep; others] (villains)
Rod and Slugger on leave are in the gallery, as Senator Barrow addresses the members of the state legislature.
Firebrand must battle a local hate group that is attempting to halt the activities of a U.S. Senator that promises to expose the group.
Reprinting
FlagThe Quality Companion #[nn] published November 2011
 
Miscellaneous
5
The Order of the White Gardenias were a true-life branch of the KKK.
Produce the Body

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
typeset
Subject Matter
mystery
Dick Mace; Carlos Mijara; Steve
Several Haitians have mysteriously disappeared.
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
1.8
[untitled]

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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Subject Matter
Follow the Black Condor in the September issue of Crack Comics on sale July 15th
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Miscellaneous
0.2
The Murder of Malcom Munsey

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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Subject Matter
mystery, superhero
The Mouthpiece [Bill Perkins]; Malcom Munsey (death); Mrs. Munsey; Greaseball Bulloni
Shood him!
Bulloni is stealing some plans and murders Malcolm Munsey.
Reprinting
 
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5
The Spy Ring Murder

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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Subject Matter
superhero
Lieutenant Bob Forbes (of U.S. intelligence, death); Nazis (villains); Mike
Slowly, down a lonely road on the outskirts of Washington, D. C., a taxi makes its way.
Sandra and Don witness the murder of a U.S. intelligence officer who had been working on the suspected sabotage of an American re-fueling station. The Phantom Lady discovers some Nazis are responsible and they are operating through the office of a wealthy jeweler.
Reprinting
FlagRoy Thomas Presents Classic Phantom Lady Softee #1 published January 2013
as The Spy Ring Murder [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagRoy Thomas Presents Classic Phantom Lady #1 published February 2013
as The Spy Ring Murder [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
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[untitled]

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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Subject Matter
Quality comic group
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
1
[untitled]

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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typeset
Subject Matter
Eddie L.; Virginia D.; Tommy R.
The Tootsie Roll of honor
Reprinting
 
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Back cover.

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