And what would you be taking a vacation from?...Even if I were going on vacation--which I'm not! 
Police Comics #29 is an issue of the series Police Comics (Volume 1) with a cover date of April, 1944.
Synopsis for Plastic Man: "Derlin's Castle"
A colleague calls Plastic Man down to his office, only for the hero to find a killer crouched over his corpse. Although the criminal gives him a bit of trouble, Plastic Man manages to drive him off and collect what J.V. wanted him to see: records proving deceased millionaire Derlin cheated the government out of $97,000,000. Not long after, Derlin's death is front page news, and Plas departs for the man's castle estate to do a little looking around, with Woozy tagging along at his insistence.
When nobody answers the bell to let them across the moat, Plas just makes himself into a bridge. After escaping numerous traps and attempts on their lives, mostly thanks to the masked villain from before, eventually his identity's discovered: Derlin himself. The body they saw before was his twin brother, and he'd been hoping to use his brother's death to escape from his past now that his money was gone and his swindling was about to be exposed. However he was mauled by wolves he kept in his own dungeon, and expires.
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- Daniel Richard Derlin (Dies)
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- J.V. Arlen (Dies)
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Synopsis for Destiny: "The Curse of Cain"
A young man mumbles to himself about how he has to commit a murder or he'll never be freed of the curse he's under, although doing so is obviously appalling to him. Trying to kill someone of no use to society who no-one will miss, the man tries to murder a blind old tramp. Fortunately the vile deed summons Destiny in the nick of time, and when thwarted by the hero, the boy reveals his story: he accidentally ran over a witch's cat with his car, and as revenge she put the Curse of Cain on him, which could only be broken by killing a fellow man. Destiny tells him a productive way to get out of the curse: he joins the Air Force and kills enemy pilots.
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Synopsis for Flatfoot Burns: "The Crime Crumpler"
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Synopsis for Manhunter: "The Deathless Brain of Tony Conroy"
Bigtime gangster Tony Conroy's been shot multiple times fleeing the police, and his men haul him into the lab of a Dr. Sims to be treated, to no avail. While the crooks attempt to flee and fall into the hands of Manhunter, Dr. Sims decides to use the dead body on his study table to test a new discovery of his: the ability to preserve the life a brain despite the death of the body! Much to Sims' distress, he finds his experiment has given Tony Conroy's brain telepathic powers, and it uses him as its instrument of revenge against the underlings who ran off and left him to die. He poses as the crooks' lawyer and knifes them both, which quickly brings Manhunter and Thor on his trail. Sims becomes a physical specimen even to threaten the hero because of the evil brain's infusion of mental energy, but during the confrontation, Thor jumps and smashes the apparatus giving life to Tony Conroy's brain. Being under its control, Sims dies too, taking the secret of his disastrous experiment to the grave with him.
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Synopsis for Human Bomb: "The Nefarious Nola"
Hustace asks if Roy ever thinks about love, but Roy replies his chemistry job and his secret role as a super hero precludes such things, just before a beautiful girl sashays through the door. She introduces herself as Nola, and asks them to hide her from the cops, which Hustace does. She then blackmails them into helping with something or be arrested as accessories. Roy slips out, becomes the Human Bomb, and asks the cops about Nola: she stole a million dollars in diamonds, but he recognizes her fingerprints have been reversed and she's been framed. He goes back to the lab to apologize for suspecting her, only to find Nola and Hustace gone.
After Bomb left, Nola dyed her hair blonde and her dress black to escape detection. She leads Hustace to her old hideout, confronts the crook in charge of framing her, and shoots him dead, taking back leadership again. She plans for Hustace to take the rap for killing her recently murdered ex-colleague, but Bomb busts in and destroys the gun (and thus the evidence) along with the gang. Hustace swears off of girls after an experience like that...until a pretty girl walks by them a second later.
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Synopsis for Spirit: "The Silk District Beat"
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- Plastic Man is reprinted in Plastic Man Archives Vol. 2.
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