Police Comics #27 is an issue of the series Police Comics (Volume 1) with a cover date of February, 1944.
Synopsis for Plastic Man: "Woozy Winks, Juror"
Plastic Man got a call from industrialist Randolph Pearson saying his life was in danger. By the time he got to Pearson's place, he was dead, and the only other person there was his business partner James Sterling. Plastic Man handed over Sterling to the F.B.I. and attended his trial. Woozy wormed his way onto the jury and found out that fellow juror Allan Pearson was the real murderer, he'd been leeching money from his brother for years, and killed him when he refused to take a government contract that would have made both of them rich. Allan threatened Woozy Winks, but Woozy was still able to get the word to Eel, who subdued Allan and made him confess to his crime.
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Synopsis for Flatfoot Burns: "The Crazy Calloway Murders"
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Synopsis for Destiny: "The Opera House Murders"
Ricardi, an actor in an opera, is strangled to death on stage by a former rival named Tassi, but no-one realizes it until the end of the act. Destiny happens to be in the audience, and sneaks in to look around for clues after everyone's gone. He finds Tassi playing the organ and demanding accolades from an invisible crowd. In his derangement, Tassi reveals his motivation to Destiny: that Ricardi and other members of the company ruined his celebrated career, making sure he was relegated to inferior roles out of jealousy. Tassi flees to the roof to escape Destiny, but doesn't jump hard enough to the next roof and plunges to his death instead.
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Synopsis for Manhunter: "The Man Who Died Twice"
Millionaire Martin Mirth finds a birthday guest he'd rather not have seen, a fellow accomplice named Poker, who he fingered in a gambling racket to get out of debts he owed. Poker threatens Mirth for money or death. Going for a walk to clear his head, Mirth runs into a transient named Ben Bumb who happens to be his doppelganger. Mirth offers to switch clothes and let Bumb take his place as a wealthy man (and target for Poker). Officer Dan Richards warns Mirth-as-Bumb to move along as vagrants aren't allowed in that park. Mirth quickly realizes this isn't the ideal solution he'd imagined when the trend continues: he keeps being chased away from places because bums aren't welcome there, and reads about Bumb using his cash for charitable causes.
Poker soon confronts Bumb-as-Mirth to collect on his threat, but Bumb offers him a job and a fresh start, and Poker turns over a new leaf. Moreover, when confronted by Mirth-as-Bumb, he refuses to switch their lives back again, having learned what a rat Mirth really was. Flying into a rage, Mirth strangles his doppelganger, the corpse being found by Officer Richards. Mirth-as-Bumb tries to return to his house and reclaim his life, but his butler and widow refuse to believe he's really Martin Mirth, sure the man's dead. Later Mirth runs into Manhunter while sitting on a park bench, and tries to get the hero's help. In doing so, however, he confesses to murder and conspiracy. He's sentenced to the electric chair, making Martin Mirth the man who died twice.
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Synopsis for Human Bomb: "The Sinister Swami Kazombo"
Roy and Hustace see that a medium's set up shop across from the lab, something that causes Roy to burst in and expose the scheme in a rage. The swami tries to get revenge by mailing a bomb to Roy Lincoln's lab, but he quickly recognizes it for what it is, and isn't hurt by the blast thanks to his powers. In another attempt, the swami hypnotizes one of his earlier customers into leaving her bed and going up to an old manor to dig for treasure, while luring Roy up there and throwing him into a quick-freeze tank. Hustace uses his explosive feet to save his friend, and the villains quickly fold under their onslaught. They and the widow actually do find a fortune in gold coins. Roy insists they give the money to charity, and Hustace sourly notes they shot the wrong Lincoln.
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Synopsis for Spirit: "The Substitute Spirits"
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- Plastic Man is reprinted in Plastic Man Archives Vol. 2.
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