Police Comics
#36
(November 1944)
Quality Comics,
1941 Series
- Volume
- [1]
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 60
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1944-09-13
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Comic Magazines
- Brand
-
Quality Comic Group
- Printer
- Printed in U. S. A.
- Editing
- George Brenner (credited as George E. Brenner) (editor); Busy Arnold (credited as E. M. Arnold) (general manager)
Issue Notes
The on-sale date and volume number are from the publication date and volume number reported to the U.S. Copyright Office found in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1944, New Series, Volume 39, Number 2. Class B periodical. Copyright registration number B 650827.
Rest in Peace
Plastic Man / cover / 1 page
- Genre
- superhero; humor
- Characters
- Plastic Man [Eel O'Brian]; Woozy Winks
- Reprints
-
in Plastic Man Archives (DC, 1998 series) #3 (2001 [January 2002])
-
Dr. Brann's Health Farm
Plastic Man / comic story / 15 pages
- Genre
- superhero; humor
- Characters
- Plastic Man [Eel O'Brian]; Woozy Winks; Hiram Brann; Slick Dandy (villain, introduction)
- Synopsis
- Slick Dandy and his gang hide out at Dr. Brann's Health Farm.
- Reprints
- in Plastic Man Archives (DC, 1998 series) #3 (2001 [January 2002])
-
[The Beauty Parlor Holdup]
Flatfoot Burns / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- humor; detective-mystery
- Characters
- Flatfoot Burns
[no title indexed]
Dewey Drip / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Imagine any dame dating that!
- Genre
- humor; military
- Characters
- Dewey Drip
- Synopsis
- Dewey's army buddies mock him for his lack of success with women. However, Dewey wins the door prize at the "Girly Whirly Follies" and has a date with "the entire cast of beauties," impressing his pals.
Destiny Plays No Politics
Destiny / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- detective-mystery; superhero
- Characters
- Destiny
Indexer Notes
Last appearance.
[Dead Duck Dolan]
The Spirit / comic story / 8 pages
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- The Spirit [Denny Colt]; Dead Duck Dolan (Commissioner Dolan's father, introduction)
- Reprints
- from The Spirit (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #3/2/1941 (March 2, 1941)
-
Beware the Human Bomb
The Human Bomb / comic story / 8 pages
- Script
- ? (see notes)
- Pencils
- Paul Gustavson
- Inks
- Paul Gustavson
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Paul Gustavson (sourced) (see notes)
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- The Human Bomb [Roy Lincoln]; Hustace Throckmorton
Indexer Notes
Writer credit revised from Paul Gustavson to ? by Craig Delich on April 4, 2013. Jim Amash, in the Quality Companion, verifies that Gustavson wrote this feature through Police (Quality Comics, 1940 series) #22, then picked up again with #37. The intervening writer is unknown for this story.
Paul's son, Terry, said that he never saw any of his Dad's work leave his Dad's studio that he had not penciled, inked, and lettered.
The Breed
Dick Mace / text story / 2 pages
- Script
- Robert Hyatt ?
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- adventure
- Characters
- Dick Mace
Indexer Notes
A Dick Mace text story.
[no title indexed]
Burp the Twerp / comic story / 1 page
- Script
- Jack Cole (signed as Ralph Johns)
- Pencils
- Jack Cole (signed as Ralph Johns)
- Inks
- Jack Cole (signed as Ralph Johns)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Jack Cole (signed as Ralph Johns)
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- No matter how much I win, I lose!
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Burp the Twerp
Had the City Gone Mad?
Manhunter / comic story / 10 pages
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Manhunter [Dan Richards]; Thor the Thunder Dog
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
Rest in Peace
Plastic Man -
1.
Dr. Brann's Health Farm
Plastic Man -
2.
[The Beauty Parlor Holdup]
Flatfoot Burns -
3.
["Imagine any dame dating that!"]
Dewey Drip -
4.
Destiny Plays No Politics
Destiny -
5.
[Dead Duck Dolan]
The Spirit -
6.
Beware the Human Bomb
The Human Bomb -
7.
The Breed
Dick Mace -
8.
["No matter how much I win, I lose!"]
Burp the Twerp -
9.
Had the City Gone Mad?
Manhunter
This issue was modified by, among others
- Ray Bottorff Jr
- John Censullo
- Craig Delich
- Gregory Fischer
- Bob Hughes
- Clint Maxwell
- Mike Nielsen
- Tony R. Rose
- Jim Van Dore
- David Wilt
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