Police Comics #24 is an issue of the series Police Comics (Volume 1) with a cover date of November, 1943.
Synopsis for Plastic Man: "The Hundred Plastic Men"
After gangster Pinky Flowers sees how devastating Plastic Man is in capturing his mob, he decides the best replacement would be a mob of Plastic Men! He visits scientist Dr. Gleason, who agrees to make hundreds of robot Plastic Men, simply because he's bored and has nothing better to do with his prodigious talents. Soon tires are being stolen off every car in town to provide the raw materials.
Soon, a baffled Plastic Man and Woozy Winks see another Plastic Man running by, carrying the take from robbing the Sixth National Bank. Pursuing cops promptly arrest Plas for the theft, leaving Woozy to investigate on his own. He finds the secret laboratory, and for an ironic way of disposing of the witness, they throw him into the machine making the fake Plastic Men. Woozy comes out unharmed but in a rubber body and costume, which has him bouncing wildly out of the building and to the jail where his partner's incarcerated. The malleable hero slips out of jail to stop the imitation Plastic Men from robbing the U.S. Sub Treasury. He ties them all in knots, and hands over Pinky and Dr. Gleason to the feds. Dr. Gleason is beside himself at having his ration books confiscated for being part of the tire theft ring: he'd just figured out how to make a rubber man out of coffee beans.
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Synopsis for The Spirit: "The Kidnapping of Ebony"
Criminals kidnap Ebony to lure the Spirit into a trap as part of a plot to frame him for murder. They try to torture Ebony with a constricting boot to get him to tell them where the Spirit's secret hideout is, but the hero manages to get the drop on them and torture them for the identity of the mastermind behind the plan.
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- Ebony White
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- Central City
- Wildwood Cemetery
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Synopsis for Destiny: "Murder At the Daily Bugle"
A drunk, angry reporter confronts his boss at the Daily Bugle newspaper, and seemingly shoots him dead. Destiny joins forces with the night watchman to discover the truth, and eventually finds out the murderer was the night watchman himself. He'd once owned the paper, but he'd been ruined by the murdered boss, and demoted to a lowly new position.
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Synopsis for Manhunter: "The Amnesiac"
Officer Richards finds a guy trying to drag away a female amnesiac and brings them both down to the precinct for questioning, but the captain buys the man's story that he's a shrink and the lady's a patient who wandered off. A suspicious Richards is told to leave the matter alone since he's off duty, but comes back as Manhunter and immediately gets the captain's full cooperation. Looking through the photographic records, the hero makes a startling discovery.
He tracks down the doctor to a dive bar, but gets coldcocked in the course of a fight. Managing to escape, Manhunter captures the crooks and their female boss, a dead ringer for the amnesia patient. The amnesiac woman is really Gwyneth Page, long-lost daughter of a wealthy senator. The female boss is Trixie Kobel, "girl bandit". By dying their hair each other's colors, Kobel planned to infiltrate the senator's house and rob it blind, while her gang planned to let Page be arrested as Kobel to keep suspicion away from their plan.
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Synopsis for Flatfoot Burns: "Blackout Burglary"
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Synopsis for The Human Bomb: "Hearts and Sluggers"
Hustace's girlfriend Honey Bun has dumped him for "Poison" Purdy, an up and coming boxer, since Hustace's life has gotten too erratic and dangerous since he started sidekicking for a super hero. Feeling responsible for Hustace losing his girlfriend, Roy takes it upon himself to suit up and let Purdy have a confrontation with "the Human Bum". However after Bomb faces down and easily knocks out Purdy, Honey Bun just thinks he's a brute too, exploiting his obvious superiority over a regular man.
Instead, Roy arranges for Hustace to take on Purdy in the ring (after training him in the art of pugilism). Meanwhile, some gangsters look to take advantage of the fight with the 100-to-1 odds against Hustace. Bomb sees them trying to distract Poison by flashing light in his eyes with a mirror, then after knocking them out with an explosive punch comes back and slips a drop of 27QRX on Hustace's glove, allowing the weedy Throckmorton to knock out his opponent with an explosive punch of his own. Impressed by his power, Honey Bun comes back to Hustace.
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- Published by Comic Magazines.
- Plastic Man: "The Hundred Plastic Men" is reprinted in Plastic Man Archives Vol. 2.
- Also featured in this issue of Police Comics were:
- Burp the Twerp: "Strong Man For Hire", by Jack Cole
- Cyclone Cupid, by Gill Fox
- Dewey Drip, art by Bernard Dibble
- "Sabotage" (text story, featuring Dick Mace) by Robert M. Hyatt
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