Police Comics #16 Mile High pedigree (Quality, 1943) CGC NM 9.4 White pages. Plastic Man gets the Gill Fox cover on this iss...

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Police Comics #16 Values

Publisher: Quality Comics, 1943

About Police Comics #16

Plastic Man by Jack Cole. The Spirit by Will Eisner. Gill Fox cover. Paul Gustavson stories and art.

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COVER DETAILS

Characters: Plastic Man [Patrick "Eel" O'Brian]; Woozy Winks; The Spirit [Denny Colt]; Ebony White

Pencils: Gill Fox

Inks: Gill Fox

STORY DETAILS

(11 Stories)

Title: The Revenge of Chief Great Warrior

Characters: Plastic Man [Patrick "Eel" O'Brian]; Woozy Winks; Blackfoot Indians; Will Hawes (introduction); Mayor Crowley; Police Commissioner Kane; Captain Murphy [aka Captain Murphey]; Officer Danny; Chief Great Warrior (villain, introduction)

Synopsis: Plas and Woozy go undercover on the Blackfoot Indian reservation to squash an uprising led by Chief Great Warrior, who had the mystical ability to project himself through reflective surfaces.

Pages: 13.000

Script: Jack Cole

Pencils: Jack Cole

Inks: Jack Cole

Letters: Jack Cole

Title: Wanted: Thor, Manhunter's Dog, Dead Or Alive

Characters: Manhunter [Dan Richards]; Thor (his dog)

Synopsis: Thor takes center stage when some crooks begin using an identical dog to do their killing. When the same crooks caught the Manhunter, Thor saved him from certain doom and put down the rival canine.

Pages: 10.000

Pencils: Al Bryant ?

Inks: Al Bryant ?

Characters: Dewey Drip; Maisie

Synopsis: The General has scheduled an opera singer to entertain the troops, but Dewey mistakes him for "a sabbytour spy!" Dewey locks up the singer and his friend Maisie the cabaret dancer performs instead, to much acclaim.

Pages: 1.000

Script: Bernard Dibble ?

Pencils: Bernard Dibble

Inks: Bernard Dibble

Notes: Artist credit revised from Devlin to Dibble by D. Wilt 2018-05-19. Art is Dibble style.

Characters: The Human Bomb [Roy Lincoln]; Hustace Throckmorton

Synopsis: Hustace causes a furor when one of his shoes flies off, and his explosive foot powers are unleashed.

Pages: 6.000

Script: Paul Gustavson

Pencils: Paul Gustavson

Inks: Paul Gustavson

Letters: Paul Gustavson

Notes: Mike Kooiman and Jim Amash state in the Quality Companion that Gustavson created the strip and wrote it. Gustavson's son, Terry Gustafson, concurs. Letters credit from Terry Gustafson, Paul Gustavson's son.

Title: The Coming of Destiny

Characters: Destiny (origin); #711 [Daniel Dyce] (a ghost); Professor Seezall Nozal (introduction); Oscar Jones (villain); Max (villain); Cash (villain)

Synopsis: A solitary, pathetic figure, wandering the rainy streets in search of shelter, finds his way into a club where Professor Seezall Nozal is performing his tricks of the mind. He selects the young man, sensing his ability to foresee death, informs the man that he can use this power for good or evil, stating that "you are Destiny"! Leaving the club, the young man focuses his mind and is transported to the scene of the murder of 711, but the hero's killer, Oscar Jones, escapes.

Pages: 7.000

Script: George Brenner [as George E. Brenner] (signed)

Pencils: George Brenner [as George E. Brenner] (signed)

Inks: George Brenner [as George E. Brenner] (signed)

Title: The Mystery of the Opera House Robberies!

Characters: Phantom Lady [Sandra Knight]; Senator Knight; Don Borden; Mrs. Van Bilt; un-named guard (villain, death); Ramon (villain)

Synopsis: Phantom Lady decides to investigate the theft of a wealthy lady's diamond necklace at the opera and discovers several of the actors were in on the caper.

Pages: 6.000

Pencils: Joe Kubert

Inks: Joe Kubert

Notes: Phantom Lady wears a mask.

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CGC Census Report*

Grade	0.5	1.0	1.5	1.8	2.0	2.5	3.0	3.5	4.0	4.5	5.0	5.5	6.0	6.5	7.0	7.5	8.0	8.5	9.0	9.2	9.4	9.6	9.8	9.9	10.0	Total
Universal	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	5
Qualified	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Signature Series	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Restored	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Total	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	5

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