Police Comics #57

In this 1946 tale from Police Comics #57, Plastic Man and Woozy the Bear encounter a mysterious Martian known only as Mr. Misfit, who warns Plastic Man of Professor MacGhoul’s scheme to launch a rocket to Mars. With the fate of Martian treasures at stake, Plas must stop the launch—only for Misfit to vanish without a trace, leaving behind only his disguise and a lingering mystery about the alien’s true form.

A broke kid with a scheme to earn a quick dime gets tangled up with a territorial tough named Spider—but their scuffle is just the appetizer before "The Butcher Strikes" takes center stage. This 1946 humor yarn by M. Senich serves up slapstick chaos and petty crime in two wild pages, proving that in Police Comics, even the smallest con can lead to bigger trouble.

When The Spirit and his sidekick Ebony visit a racetrack to check on a champion steeplechaser named Jackie Boy, they discover the horse is set to compete in Saturday's big race—but a suspicious fall during the event leaves the animal injured and seemingly finished. As Ebony nurses Jackie Boy back to health against the odds, The Spirit grows convinced that crooks Dirty Louie and Tinhorn Tom sabotaged the race, and he's determined to uncover their scheme when Jackie Boy gets a second chance to run.