Police Comics Vol 1 6

Police Comics Vol 1 #6 Published Released January, 1942 November 12, 1941 Issue Details Pages 68 Original Price 0.10 Cover Artists Gill Fox Publisher Quality Comics Indicia Publisher Comic Magazines, Inc. Brand/Imprint Quality Comic Group Firebrand: "Dr. Kruger's Hospital Horror" Writers S.M. Iger Pencilers Reed Crandall Inkers Reed Crandall "Plastic Man: "Case of the Disembodied Hands"" Writers Jack Cole Pencilers Jack Cole Inkers Jack Cole "Phantom Lady: "The Autogiro Spies"" Pencilers Arthur Peddy Inkers Arthur Peddy "Human Bomb: "The Black Vanguards"" Writers Paul Gustavson Pencilers Paul Gustavson Inkers Paul Gustavson "The Mouthpiece: "Grud, Fifth Columnist"" Writers Fred Guardineer Pencilers Fred Guardineer Inkers Fred Guardineer "Chic Carter: "Veda the Cobra Woman"" Writers Vernon Henkel Pencilers Vernon Henkel Inkers Vernon Henkel Previous Issue Next Issue Police Comics #5 Police Comics #7

Appearing in Firebrand: "Dr. Kruger's Hospital Horror"

Featured Characters:

• Firebrand

Supporting Characters:

• Joan Rogers

Adversaries:

• Dr. Kruger

Other Characters:

• "Slugger" Dunn

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Synopsis for Firebrand: "Dr. Kruger's Hospital Horror"

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Appearing in Plastic Man: "Case of the Disembodied Hands"

Featured Characters:

• Plastic Man

Supporting Characters:

Adversaries:

• Chubby Rankin

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Synopsis for Plastic Man: "Case of the Disembodied Hands"

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Appearing in Phantom Lady: "The Autogiro Spies"

Featured Characters:

• Phantom Lady

Supporting Characters:

• Donald Borden

Adversaries:

• Otto
• Max

Other Characters:

• Henry Knight

Locations:

• Arnold Apartments

Items:

• Black Ray lantern

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Synopsis for Phantom Lady: "The Autogiro Spies"

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Appearing in Human Bomb: "The Black Vanguards"

Featured Characters:

• Human Bomb

Supporting Characters:

• Jean Adams

Adversaries:

• The Black Vanguards

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Synopsis for Human Bomb: "The Black Vanguards"

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Appearing in The Mouthpiece: "Grud, Fifth Columnist"

Featured Characters:'

• Mouthpiece
  
  

Synopsis for The Mouthpiece: "Grud, Fifth Columnist"

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Appearing in Chic Carter: "Veda the Cobra Woman"

Featured Characters:

• Chic Carter, Ace Police Reporter

Supporting Characters:

• Monahan

Adversaries:

• Veda Kane, the Cobra Woman (Apparent Death)

Other Characters:

• Peter Kane Jr
• Peter Kane Sr

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Synopsis for Chic Carter: "Veda the Cobra Woman"

The new, very exotic dancer at the Club Orientale is Veda, from India, wife of Peter Kane the Rubber Tycoon. Chic Carter, ace police reporter, hangs out at this club, and catches her act. She’s sensational; she writhes like a snake; the men are enthralled; the women are creeped out. After her performance, she is hit on by the very drunk Peter Kane Junior, her stepson, they move to a secluded corner, she kisses him, he leaps to his feet, shaking like a leaf, staggers a few steps, and falls down dead, then immediately goes stiff and turns black. Veda has already slipped away but Chic saw her leaving with PKJ, and gives chase. He finds her dropped cigarette butt, with a brown stain on it, that he deduces is probably the poison that killed Junior. Monahan and his cops arrive; Carter tells Monahan what he knows and suspects, then leaves in a taxi, to visit Peter Kane Senior. PKS lives on a big, creepy estate. Inside, Veda is breaking the news of Junior’s death to Senior, and they share a tender moment, then a creepy moment, then Chic Carter leaps into the room through a closed window, and yells for Kane to not kiss her. He tells Kane his theory about poisoned lipstick, and picks up the phone to call in Monahan. Kane Senior pulls a gun on him, so Chic clocks him upside the head with the telephone, knocking him half-unconscious. While Carter is on the phone to Monahan, Veda gives her stricken husband a cigarette and tells him it will make him feel better.

Monahan arrives abruptly, and tells Carter all about how completely wrong Carter’s theory is. Kane Junior had died of nerve paralysis; no poison was found in his system; the stain on the cigarette butt was just Junior’s own blood from a cut lip; and no narcotics or poisons were found in the butt itself either. About then Monahan notices Kane Senior, sitting on the floor, dead. Carter claims he didn’t hit the old guy THAT hard, but Monahan has to hold him for manslaughter. Veda observes this through a window, and gloats that now all of Kane’s millions are hers.

On the way to the precinct, Carter sucker-punches Monahan and jumps out of the car and runs away. Cops shoot at him but miss. He sneaks back into the Kane mansion, and searches Veda’s room. On her make-up desk are camphor ice and mucilage. That tells him everything he needs to know! Suddenly a big cobra is in the room, Chic jumps back, whips out a gun, and shoots it dead. Veda walks in and is aghast; he has killed a god! Carter then spells out exactly what happened to Peter Kane Junior and exactly how she did it; she smirks, and stabs herself with a hypodermic needle full of cobra venom, and falls down dead.

Notes

• Plastic Man is reprinted in Plastic Man Archives Volume 1.
• Chic Carter:
  • One of two things is true: 1/ Monahan forgot to confiscate Carter’s handgun when he took him into custody. Or 2/ Carter grabbed Monahan’s gun in the scuffle when he escaped the police car.
  • We only have Veda’s word for it that the hypo contained Cobra Venom, and we don’t actually see her body go stiff or turn black.

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