This is where the Mouthpiece gets off!
Police Comics #13 is an issue of the series Police Comics (Volume 1) with a cover date of November, 1942.
Appearing in Plastic Man: "Presenting the Man Who Can't Be Harmed"
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- Woozy Winks (First appearance & origin)
- Captain Murphy
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- Mister Mire
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- Homer Twitchel
- Zambi ze Soothzayer
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Synopsis for Plastic Man: "Presenting the Man Who Can't Be Harmed"
Woozy Winks was a nobody who was in the right hour and right place: He saved a wizard from drowning. As reward, the wizard imbued him with a power which would protect him of any damage. Hit himself with a hammer would don't cause any damage and even trees would grow from the soil to protect him. He begun to use this ability to make money, but in a wrong way. He soon begun to steal and destroy all Homer Twitchel busts that he could. Plastic Man wouldn't be able to get Woozy because his new found power; Then he assumed his alter ego (Eel O'Brian) to convince him to form a gang (awaiting, of course, to know who was manipulating the crook behind the scenes). Woozy would not accept O'Brien until he could give some proof of experience, and then Eel committed a two-week crime-wave, only to call his attention. Convinced, Woozy explains that they will steal the Twitchel busts from a museum, and Plastic Man tell everything to the police, who will try to organize a ambush for catch Woozy (and O'Brien, who they don't know be Plastic Man). The duo is successful to get the busts, even with the police ambush, due Woozy's power. After break the statues, Plas is still curious about the meaning of everything and trails Woozy until the Mire Mansion. O'Brien realizes that Woozy was contracted by a rich man named Mire to break the busts. It would increase the value of Mire's own Twitchels. But Mire refused to give any pay by Woozy's last work after learned by the radio that the broken busts were fake ones (replaced by plaster copies by the police). When Plastic Man tries to arrest them, Mire call his black panther named Blackie; By assume Mire's form, Plastic Man orders the animal to come back to its lair, and punches Mire. After some more demonstrations of Woozy's power, Plas appeals to his good sense, and convince him to surrender to the police. At the police station, Plastic Man delivers Woozy and all the money that Eel O'Brian stole during those two weeks of crime waves, but the Captain Murphey wants he arrest Eel O'Brian.
Appearing in 711: "The Man Who Killed Deek Dakin"
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Appearing in Chic Carter: "The Rat Trap"
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Appearing in Firebrand: "The Sinister Peanut Vendor"
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- Firebrand (Final appearance)
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- Joan Rogers (Final appearance)
- Slugger Dunn (Final appearance)
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Synopsis for Firebrand: "The Sinister Peanut Vendor"
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Appearing in Steele Kerrigan: "Machine Gun Clarkson"
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- Steele Kerrigan (Final appearance)
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Synopsis for Steele Kerrigan: "Machine Gun Clarkson"
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Appearing in The Spirit: "Johnny Marston"
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Appearing in Phantom Lady: "The Phony Phantom Lady"
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Appearing in The Human Bomb: "The Living Dead of Skull Valley"
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Synopsis for The Human Bomb: "The Living Dead of Skull Valley"
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Appearing in The Mouthpiece: "The Human Bomber"
Featured Characters:
- the Mouthpiece (Final appearance)
Antagonists:
- Von Drule
- his henchman (Dies)
Other Characters:
- Officer Clancy
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- Hacklehead Mountain
- Tank Factory, base of Mt. Hacklehead
- Tank Factory, base of Mt. Hacklehead
Synopsis for The Mouthpiece: "The Human Bomber"
A tank factory seemed to be getting bombed in air raids; it was built next to a steep mountain, which had an old forgotten mountain cable-chair lash-up, rigged down the side of it and across the valley. Two German saboteurs, Von Drule and his assistant, were using this apparatus to drop bombs on the roof of the factory.
Late that night, District Attorney Bill Perkins puts on his black mask and becomes the Mouthpiece, and prowls the mountain looking for clues. He finds the cable-chair equipment, just as Von Drule, with a bushel of small aerial bombs, gets ready to swoop down for another bombing run. He's got a good head start when the Mouthpiece shows up, shoots the assistant in the head, and reverses the machinery, interrupting the "human bomber's" deadly stunt, but Von Drule cuts the chair free, and slides away very rapidly. The Mouthpiece, using a horseshoe hooked over the cable, pursues the out-of-control chair down the mountain cable. Mouthhpiece overtakes Von Drule, and tussles with him, dumping the load of bombs out, over an empty open space, then dumps out the saboteur himself, to hit the ground, unconscious enough for Officer Clancy to arrest him.
Appearing in Manhunter: "The Theater Murder"
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Notes
- All Quality Comics characters and the distinctive likeness(es) thereof were originally Trademarked & Copyright © 1951 Quality Comics. The characters and the distinctive likeness(es) thereof were acquired by DC Comics in 1956. While some of the properties acquired did not have copyright and trademarks renewed, some of those depicted here are Trademarks & Copyright © 1973-2008 DC Comics, Inc. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
- Earth-Two:
- Plastic Man, Phantom Lady, the Human Bomb and Manhunter all chronologically appeared last in All-Star Squadron #50.
- Firebrand:
- Captions refer to Slugger as Ensign Reilly's shipmate
- Joan Rogers has been coincidentally temporarily assigned to the Red Cross effort in Cairo, in the far Pacific, and now back in an American city, every time Ensign Reilly and enlisted sailor Dunn have gone ashore.
- This is the final Golden Age appearance of Firebrand. He appears next in Justice League of America #193.
- This is the final appearance of the Mouthpiece.
- Mouthpiece just flat guns down Von Drule's henchman with a shot to the head, no ultimatums, no warning, no nothing.
- At the end of this story, despite ample circumstantial evidence, Officer Clancy still has not made the connection between D.A. Perkins and the Mouthpiece.
- Plastic Man: "Presenting the Man Who Can't Be Harmed" is also reprinted in DC Special #15, Plastic Man 80-Page Giant #1 and Plastic Man Archives Vol. 1.
- Spirit: "Johnny Marston" was originally printed in The Spirit comic strip #6/30/1940 by Register and Tribune Syndicate. It is reprinted in the Spirit Archives, Volume 1.
- This is the final appearance of Steele Kerrigan.
- Also featured in this issue of Police Comics were:
- Burp the Twerp: "The Alaskan Caper" by Jack Cole
- "Dark Bayou" (text story, featuring Dick Mace) by Robert Hyatt
- Dewey Drip, art by John Devlin
- Super Snooper, by Gill Fox
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