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Police Comics #64 (1947)
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Plastic Man and his partner Woozy infiltrate the Sweetstuff Candy Co., suspecting it’s a front for smuggling stolen jewels, only to find the factory run by the cunning Taffy Welch and his gang of candy-themed crooks. As Plastic Man disguises himself as a stick of candy to sneak inside, he uncovers a web of crime tied to the missing Sinkapink jewels—and faces a bizarre ultimatum that could force him into an unexpected alliance.
Jo, a young man with a flair for the dramatic, brings his unusual instrument—a bull fiddle—to a group of skeptical friends, who mock its strange appearance and sound. When his attempts to play it accidentally trigger a chaotic chain of events, Jo is left scrambling to explain the resulting mess to his worried mother.
In the shadowy heights of the Terrace Apartments, Officer Dan Richards—secretly the vigilante Manhunter—investigates the bizarre murder of a reclusive man whose neck was broken with inhuman strength. With a suspect in custody and a strange theory about a literary ape killer, Richards follows a trail that leads not to a man, but to a dangerous secret: a trained ape used as a weapon by a cunning criminal who framed the police with a twisted game of misdirection.
In a whimsical 1947 mystery, a detective investigates a wave of canine crime, suspecting organized crooks are exploiting homeless dogs by training them for robberies. When a seemingly innocent mutt named Fuzzy becomes entangled in the case, the real culprit is revealed through a clever trap involving tear gas and a stolen bone.
In the aftermath of gang leader Dubbs Dombey’s sudden death in jail, his funeral sparks a mystery when his will reveals a bizarre twist: his fortune goes to whoever finds and kills the man responsible for his death—rumored to be the Spirit, the crimefighter who put him away. As rival gang members and a cunning lawyer plot to trap the Spirit, they’re drawn into a dangerous game of deception, with the real killer’s identity hidden beneath layers of lies and a buried corpse.