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Issue Details

Issue #87
Published February 1949
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 52
Editing George Brenner

Cover Details - "Plastic Man Finds the Horn of Plenty... of Trouble!"

Characters Plastic Man; Woozy
Genre superhero
Pencils Jack Cole
Inks Jack Cole
Reprinted in Police Comics (Alval, 1949 series) #87

15 page Plastic Man story The Horn of Plenty of Trouble] ["Fifty million Frenchmen can't be wrong..."

Characters Plastic Man; Woozy; Phonie LeGhoum [Phoney Loggum] (introduction, villain)
Synopsis Plastic Man chases a phoney Frenchman in the French Quarter of New Orleans.
Genre superhero
Script Jack Cole ?
Pencils Jack Cole
Inks Jack Cole
Reprinted in Police Comics (Alval, 1949 series) #87

1 page Dewey Drip story

Genre Gags
Script Joe Devlin
Pencils Joe Devlin
Inks Joe Devlin

1 page Dewey Drip story

Genre Gags
Script Joe Devlin
Pencils Joe Devlin
Inks Joe Devlin

6 page Honeybun story "The Second Honeymoon"

Script Paul Gustavson
Pencils Paul Gustavson
Inks Paul Gustavson

7 page Candy story "Romantic Poems By O'Connor"

Characters Candy O'Connor
Genre teen; humor
Script Harry Sahle?
Pencils Harry Sahle?
Inks Harry Sahle?

7 page Spirit story Bond Bratton] ["Yes--It takes all kind of murderers to make an Underworld"

Characters The Spirit; Bond Bratton; Commissioner Dolan; Ebony
Synopsis The Spirit solves the murder of Bond Bratton.
Genre Mystery
Script Bill Woolfolk
Pencils Lou Fine
Inks Lou Fine; ? [Quality staff]
Letters Martin DeMuth
Reprinted from Spirit, The (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #4/15/1945; in Police Comics (Alval, 1949 series) #87

2 page Plastic Man text story "Woozy's Unquenchable Thirst"

Characters Plastic Man [Eel O'Brian]; Woozy Winks
Genre superhero
Letters typeset

8 page Manhunter story The Killing Joke] ["Everybody likes a joke..."

Characters Manhunter [Dan Richards]; Thor (Manhunter's dog); Jim Dyce
Synopsis Dan Richards, on patrol, goes past a posh party at Jim Dyce's house when he hears the sounds of murder and rushes to investigate as Manhunter. It looks like practical joker Jim Dyce is now a murderer, but things aren't always what they seem to be.
Genre superhero
Pencils Al Bryant
Inks Al Bryant
Reprinted in Police Comics (Alval, 1949 series) #87