Comic Title: Police Comics #1
Publisher: Quality (Comic Magazines, Inc.)
Address: 322 Main Street, Stamford, CT
Cover Date: August 1941
On Sale Date: May 14, 1941 Copyright Date May 14, 1941
Source: Library of Congress, Periodicals 1941

Frequency: Monthly
Cover Price: $0.10
Page Count: 64
Editor: Edward C. Cronin

Title: (Introducing the Firebrand)
Pages: 11

Feature(s):
Firebrand (of Earth-2)

Writer: Samuel Maxwell Iger
Artist: Reed Crandall

Reprinted In:
Millennium Edition:Police Comics 1 (#40) (2000)

Feature Character(s)

• Firebrand (Rod Reilly; next appearance in Police Comics #2)

Supporting Character(s)

• Slugger Dunn (Rod's assistant; next appearance in Police Comics #2)
• "Emerald" Ed Reilly (Rod's father; next appearance in Police Comics #2)
• Joan Rogers (Rod's girlfriend; next appearance in Police Comics #2)

Villain(s)

• Baron Von Hanson, Sylvester Cole, and their gang (jewel smugglers; no further appearances)
• Dippy Dolan (a pickpocket; no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Mrs. Reilly (Rod's mother; no further appearances)

Comments:
This story was not originally titled.

Synopsis:
Rod Reilly, playboy son of steel tycoon Ed Reilly, is really the masked vigilante known as Firebrand. Rod stumbles upon a gang of crooks targeting a steeplejack for murder. Rod stops the crooks, but is unable to make them talk. He is the forced to flee from police who believe him to be a crook himself.

Rod then attends a war relief ball. Baron Von Hanson, one of the guests, has his pocket picked by Dippy Dolan. Rod suspects the baron of nefarious activity, so he buys the wallet from Dippy. He uses the vault combination inside to open Von Hanson's vault which contains a fortune in stolen jewels. Firebrand stops the crooks, exposing their racket of using window washers to case offices. He then forces the baron to turn the jewels over to the war relief effort. He then allows the baron to leave the country.