Police Comics #20 is an issue of the series Police Comics (Volume 1) with a cover date of July, 1943.
Synopsis for Plastic Man: "Woozy Winks Detective Agency"
Plastic Man appears to die when a barrel of TNT goes off during a battle with a pair of crooks. Woozy finds his friend's body and the calling card of the two villainous magicians responsible. He sets out to prove his mettle as a detective and track down the villains who finally did in Plastic Man, managing to miss numerous clues to their identities. Even when he breaks the fourth wall and gets Jack Cole to do a police sketch of the perps.
Woozy promises to repay Cole by having him follow and write about whatever happens in his next comic. At a nightclub, Woozy starts throwing around counterfeit money to make himself look like a high-roller to lure out the thieves. It works, but they realize his money's fake, and start raising magical havoc in revenge. Woozy runs into Plastic Man's hospital room, just when the hero wakes up. Woozy tells him Abba and Dabba were knocked out by the explosion too, and taken into custody. Woozy's whole adventure was just a dream Plastic Man was having while convalescent.
Appearing in Plastic Man: "Woozy Winks Detective Agency"
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- Abba and Dabba
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- Jack Cole (In dream sequence only)
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Synopsis for Manhunter: "The Case of the Kidnapped Corpse"
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Synopsis for Flatfoot Burns: "Flatfoot's Substitute"
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Synopsis for Spirit: "Ogre Goran"
"Ogre" Goran escapes from prison by knocking out a guard and stealing his uniform, then going to the home of Mary, his former flame. Goran kills her husband, but Mary sets him (and the house) on fire trying to fend of the criminal fiend. Mary's rescued by the fire department, but a badly-burned Goran escapes.
The Spirit takes on the case when Ebony reads the paper and hears that the fire department finds the shower was running when they got there. Leading Ebony to deduce Goran probably survived by hiding from the flames under rushing water. Spirit interviews the neighbors and learns a bandaged "cousin" came and took Mary out not long ago, and then finds out from the police that Goran used to use a lighthouse as his hideout. Spirit finds Goran is indeed holed up there with Mary, and the homely Olga, his current wife who's the only one who can stand the sight of his disfigured face (but who he plans to kill in Mary's favor soon). Spirit attacks Goran, giving Mary a chance to escape. The police soon arrive and arrest the bandaged criminal while the Spirit dives off the lighthouse and swims to shore.
Appearing in Spirit: "Ogre Goran"
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- Ebony White
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- Ogre Goran
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- Mary Cowan
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- Central City
- Cape Point Lighthouse
- Cape Point Lighthouse
Synopsis for Phantom Lady: "Enter:The Raven"
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Synopsis for Destiny: "The Three-Man Perfect Crime"
Three wealthy but extremely bored brothers decide to alleviate their situation by devising a perfect crime. They murder a young man (despite Destiny trying to interfere), leaving no trace of any foul play. Their butler overhears the brothers congratulating themselves the next day, and they realize they'll have to silence him. This time Destiny gets there fast enough to stop them, and figures out they used chloroform to suffocate their victim but left the window open so the fumes dissipated and left no trace.
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Synopsis for Human Bomb: "The Ferry Boat's Tale"
The old captain of a ferry boat gets sick of having done nothing for the last 20 years but sail back and forth along the exact same route. He monkeys with the motor so nobody can stop it when he sails it out into the Pacific for a joyride. Roy Lincoln happens to be one of the passengers, and recognizes what the captain thinks is a whale for what it really is: a Japanese submarine. After putting on his Human Bomb suit he cripples the ship, the passengers help beat the crew into submission and take the Japanese sailors aboard the ferry as prisoners.
Appearing in Human Bomb: "The Ferry Boat's Tale"
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- Woozy Winks Detective Agency is reprinted in Plastic Man Archives Vol. 1.
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