Police Comics #9 (Quality, 1942) CGC FN 6.0 Cream to off-white pages. Plastic Man beans a bad guy by using his noodle on thi...

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Police Comics #9 Values

Publisher: Quality Comics, 1942

About Police Comics #9

Jack Cole art.

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COVER DETAILS

Characters: Plastic Man [Patrick "Eel" O'Brian]; #711 [Daniel Dyce] (inset); The Human Bomb [Roy Lincoln] (inset); Manhunter [Dan Richards] (inset); The Firebrand [Rod Reilly] (inset); Chic Carter (inset)

Pencils: Gill Fox

Inks: Gill Fox

Notes: Art credits verified by Gill Fox in Alter Ego Vol. 3 #12 (January 2002).

STORY DETAILS

(14 Stories)

Title: Satan's Son Sells Out to the Japs!

Characters: Plastic Man [Patrick "Eel" O'Brian] (origin re-cap); Officer Plotz; Hairy Arms [aka Mrs. Reknits] (villain, introduction); Slug (villain, introduction, death); Wooley (villain, introduction, death); Arson Carson (villain, introduction)

Synopsis: Hairy Arms is a gang leader who serves the Axis powers, and when his gang finds out about that, they defy him and seek help from Eel O'Brien. Plastic Man follows up with fellow officer Plotz, then learns that Arms has kidnapped a boy and left a ransom note demanding $50,000 be left at Wildwood Cemetery, where Arms was found manufacturing an army of robots. Later, Arms is taken down by his own men.

Pages: 9.000

Script: Jack Cole (signed)

Pencils: Jack Cole (signed)

Inks: Jack Cole (signed)

Letters: Jack Cole

Notes: Wildwood Cemetery was the home of the Spirit. There is a real world cemetery by that name in Massachusetts, a state to which Cole later moved.

Title: Bat Barron's Prison Murder Plot

Characters: #711 [Daniel Dyce]; Bat Barron (villain); the Nazis (villains)

Synopsis: Dyce finds a way to contribute to the national defense from prison when Nazis threaten to recruit agents from within the prison.

Pages: 5.000

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

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

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

Characters: Manhunter [Dan Richards]; Thor; Jim Kelly; Kit Kelly; The Voodoo Queen (villain, introduction); a voodoo priest (villain, introduction); Xaxol (villain, introduction, a giant); The Firing Squad (villains)

Synopsis: A trio of freaks secretly observe and aid Manhunter on a case.

Pages: 6.000

Pencils: Alex Kotzky

Inks: Alex Kotzky

Notes: The shoe print disappears from the small circle on Manhunter's chest.

Title: The Butler Did It!

Characters: The Firebrand [Rod Reilly] (Naval Reserve Officer); Joan Rogers (Rod's fiancee); Slugger Dunn; Maxwell (inventor of a gun sight); the Nazis (villains)

Pages: 6.000

Script: S. M. Iger

Pencils: Reed Crandall (signed)

Inks: Reed Crandall (signed)

Characters: Phantom Lady [Sandra Knight]; Senator Knight; the Japanese (villains)

Synopsis: Sandra sees her father shot down in Congress by a Japanese agent, and learns that the Japanese are plotting to destroy the J. M. Steel Plant.

Pages: 6.000

Pencils: Arthur Peddy (signed)

Inks: Arthur Peddy (signed)

Characters: The Human Bomb [Roy Lincoln]; Jean Adams (Roy's fiancee); the Nazis (villains)

Synopsis: The Human Bomb tracks down a group of Nazis who had seized an aluminum mine in Argentina.

Pages: 6.000

Script: Paul Gustavson [as Paul Carroll] (signed)

Pencils: Paul Gustavson [as Paul Carroll] (signed)

Inks: Paul Gustavson [as Paul Carroll] (signed)

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.

Data Courtesy of Grand Comics Database under Creative Commons license

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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	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	6
Qualified	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
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	1	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	4
Total	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	1	1	1	0	1	2	2	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	11

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