Police Comics #101

Ted Dawson is so smitten with his art teacher, Miss Templeton, that he's neglecting his schoolwork to win an art appreciation contest and impress her—but when his friend Candy O'Connor discovers his desperate scheme, she decides to teach him a lesson by entering the contest herself with a photograph that'll make him see he's still just a kid in Miss Templeton's eyes. It's a clever bit of romantic sabotage wrapped in humor, as the two teens navigate crushes, contests, and the gap between how old you think you are and how old you actually are.

Artemus Peap arrives at Police Commissioner Dolan's office with big plans—he's assembled a "phantom gang" of escaped criminals over the past decade, and he's about to spring his scheme to seize control of the city. But when his army of thugs marches on police headquarters, the Spirit and his allies are ready with a trap that scatters the gang across the city. As Peap sits safely in jail watching his operation crumble, a meteor crash offers him an unexpected escape—and a stranger with a homemade rocket ship presents him with an impossible choice that could change everything.

When a criminal biologist named Canis injects himself with a serum derived from dog biology, he gains uncanny abilities—heightened senses, an instinct for detecting treachery, and a predatory edge that makes him nearly unstoppable in the shadows. Manhunter and his faithful companion Thor must track down this transformed menace before Canis's newfound powers allow him to dominate the criminal underworld and slip beyond the reach of justice.