Police Comics #31 (1944) for Sale - Where to Buy

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Seq	Story	Type	Pages	Credits	Characters
0	Washed Up	cover	1	pencils: Jack Cole; inks: Jack Cole	Eel O'Brian, Plastic Man, Woozy Winks
2	The Mangler's Slaughter Clinic	comic story	15	script: Jack Cole; pencils: Jack Cole; inks: Jack Cole; letters: Jack Cole	Eel O'Brian, Plastic Man, Woozy Winks
3	-	comic story	1	script: Bernard Dibble; pencils: Bernard Dibble; inks: Bernard Dibble	Pappy Drip; Ma Drip
4	The Trance-Call Fails	comic story	5		Destiny; John Sykes; Mrs. John Sykes; Jeffers
5	Corney Cobb, Apprentice Detective	comic story	6	pencils: Milt Stein; inks: Milt Stein	Flatfoot Burns; Corney Cobb
6	Blackmail and Blood	comic story	10	pencils: Al Bryant; inks: Al Bryant	Manhunter, Dan Richards, Thor the Thunder Dog
7	Death at the Mike	text story	2	letters: typeset	Dick Mace
8	Stand by for Action	comic story	8	pencils: Paul Gustavson; inks: Paul Gustavson; letters: Paul Gustavson	The Human Bomb, Roy Lincoln, Hustace Throckmorton
9	Super Dog House	comic story	1	script: Jack Cole; pencils: Jack Cole; inks: Jack Cole; letters: Jack Cole	Burp the Twerp
10	Dipsy Dooble	comic story	8	script: Will Eisner; pencils: Will Eisner; inks: Will Eisner; colors: Joe Kubert; letters: Sam Rosen	Denny Colt, Eustace P. Dolan, Ellen Dolan, The Spirit

Plus 3 pages of advertisements and other matter across 3 sequences, as published.

Collection	Year
Plastic Man Archives #3 ISBN 1563898470	2002	On eBay ›
DC Finest: Plastic Man: The Origin of Plastic Man #[nn] ISBN 978-1-79950-065-0	2025	On eBay ›

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