Police Comics #18

In "The Drafting of Plastic Man," the wobbly hero is pulled from his usual antics when President Roosevelt personally calls to requisition his talents for the FBI, assigning him to a top-secret counter-espionage mission. Though Captain Murphey had kept him off the draft to protect the home front, Plas now finds himself officially in government service—his stretchy body put to work in a new kind of war.

When Judge Jupiter invites his old acquaintances to his estate for a reunion, Manhunter and his dog Thor are assigned to protect the aging judge from what seems like paranoid fears—but a woman is shot dead moments after arriving, and the murders cascade through the night. As bodies pile up and the killer strikes repeatedly under the very roof where Manhunter is standing guard, Dan Richards must piece together a mystery that spirals faster than he can track, with each new victim bringing him closer to a shocking truth about who orchestrated the bloodshed.

When a mysterious figure called the Headless Man begins terrorizing the city, Destiny pursues the grotesque criminal and uncovers a scheme far more sinister than a simple monster—one rooted in family greed and murder. With Frank N. Stein's true identity exposed and his twisted plan laid bare, Destiny closes in on a killer who'll stop at nothing to keep his dark secret buried. A clever mystery tale that proves sometimes the most dangerous criminals hide behind the most horrifying masks.

In "Golden Egg!" from Police Comics #18 (1943), an Easter egg hunt at Senator Knight's estate takes a dangerous turn when Jo notices one egg that ticks and another that's suspiciously heavy. With quick thinking, Do deduces the eggs are rigged with explosives—part of a plot to assassinate the senator.

Detective Chic Carter investigates a horrifying mystery when a condemned criminal escapes execution through an unthinkable transformation—courtesy of a mad scientist's experimental formula that turns a man into an invisible, lethal vapor. As this supernatural killer terrorizes the city with impossible power, Carter must race to uncover the scientist's hidden antidote before the phantom gunman claims more victims.

In "The Three Mosquitoes," Jean’s latest invention—a dynamite-propelled rocket car—sparks chaos when she ignores Roy’s warnings and takes it for a reckless test drive through town. The resulting high-speed mayhem leaves everyone scrambling, and Jean, finally seeing the folly, vows to abandon her tinkering for good.