Police Comics #64

Plastic Man and his pal Woozy Winks stumble onto a stolen fortune hidden inside Sweetstuff Candy Company's chocolates—jewels from the international gem exposition—and trace them back to the factory run by Taffy Welch. Undercover at the plant, they discover the candy operation is actually a front for a much larger criminal enterprise, leading Plastic Man into a showdown with Welch and his gang of swindlers. The adventure escalates when rival crook Nobby Norton arrives on the scene with his own designs on the loot, and things get considerably more complicated from there.

When Specks brings home a bull fiddle to show off his musical prowess, a group of hecklers can't resist ridiculing both the instrument and his playing—until he decides to teach them a lesson with his fists. Now facing the aftermath of a brawl and a destroyed instrument, Specks must find the courage to confess the whole mess to his mama.

When Officer Dan Richards becomes Manhunter, he's on the trail of a brutal killer targeting victims around the city—a murderer whose signature is a neck-breaking grip of tremendous strength. As the bodies pile up and suspicion falls on career criminal Grips Gabbett, a peculiar scholar named Mogoll keeps inserting himself into the investigation with theories drawn from gothic literature, and Manhunter's dog Thor begins tracking something far stranger than any man. What unfolds is a hunt for a killer unlike any Manhunter has faced before, one that will test both his wits and his bond with his four-legged partner.

When homeless dogs start disappearing from the alleys to be trained as criminals by crooks seeking easy marks for robberies, detective Flatfoot Burns takes to Dog Alley to investigate—only to stumble onto a plot where the very canines being exploited are meant to take him down. This six-page 1947 Police Comics story combines humor and mystery as a scraggly mutt named Fuzzy becomes an unwitting pawn in a scheme that just might expose the entire operation.

When a notorious gang leader dies in police custody, his will promises a fortune to whoever kills The Spirit—setting off a deadly race among criminals convinced the masked crimefighter is responsible for their boss's death. The Spirit must navigate a web of greed, deception, and hidden secrets to uncover the real truth behind Dubbs Dombey's demise and stop those hunting him for blood money. With lawyer John Shyster and the cunning I.Q. orchestrating a scheme that goes darker than anyone anticipated, this case proves that revenge is a dangerous inheritance.