Police Comics
#38
(January 1945)
Quality Comics,
1941 Series
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 60
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Comic Magazines
- Brand
-
Quality Comic Group
- Editing
- George Brenner (credited as George E. Brenner) (editor)
Wanted! Plastic Man Dead or Alive
Plastic Man / cover / 1 page
- Genre
- superhero; humor
- Characters
- Plastic Man [Patrick "Eel" O'Brian]; Woozy Winks
- Reprints
-
in Plastic Man Archives (DC, 1998 series) #3 (2001 [January 2002])
-
[One Million Dollars for Plastic Man's Death]
Plastic Man / comic story / 15 pages
- Genre
- superhero; humor
- Characters
- Plastic Man [Patrick "Eel" O'Brian]; Woozy Winks; Professor Zwerling (introduction); Rocky Goober (villain, introduction); Boss Skullman (villain, introduction)
- Synopsis
- Boss Skullman puts out a hit on Plastic Man and Professor Zwerling.
- Reprints
- in Plastic Man Archives (DC, 1998 series) #3 (2001 [January 2002])
-
Indexer Notes
Phony suicide scene.
On the Air
Flatfoot Burns / comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Janice Valleau (signed as Ginger)
- Inks
- Janice Valleau (signed as Ginger)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- humor; detective-mystery
- Characters
- Flatfoot Burns
[no title indexed]
The Human Bomb / comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- Paul Gustavson
- Pencils
- Paul Gustavson
- Inks
- Paul Gustavson
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Paul Gustavson (sourced)
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- A package just arrived from a costume company -- for you, Hustace!
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- The Human Bomb [Roy Lincoln]; Hustace Throckmorton
Indexer Notes
Mike Kooiman and Jim Amash state in the Quality Companion that Gustavson created the strip and wrote it. Gustavson's son, Terry Gustafson, concurs.
[Framed by Arno Roxx]
Manhunter / comic story / 10 pages
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Manhunter [Dan Richards]; Thor
Indexer Notes
Art formerly credited to Al Bryant and Sam Citron
[no title indexed]
Dewey Drip / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Drip'll never make it this time!
- Genre
- humor; military
- Characters
- Dewey Drip; Sergeant; Senator
- Synopsis
- Dewey shows up for inspection wearing just an overcoat over his boxer shorts. The sergeant orders Dewey to give his coat to a visiting lady senator.
[All in Pieces]
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)
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Burp the Twerp
- Reprints
- in The Toon Treasury of Classic Children's Comics (Harry N. Abrams, 2009 series) ([September] 2009)
-
[Davy Jones's Locker]
The Spirit / comic story / 8 pages
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- The Spirit [Denny Colt]
- Reprints
- from The Spirit (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #2/2/1941 (February 2, 1941)
-
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
Wanted! Plastic Man Dead or Alive
Plastic Man -
1.
[One Million Dollars for Plastic Man's Death]
Plastic Man -
2.
On the Air
Flatfoot Burns -
3.
["A package just arrived from a costume company -- for you, Hustace!"]
The Human Bomb -
4.
Hank Pinupo
Candy -
5.
[Framed by Arno Roxx]
Manhunter -
6.
["Drip'll never make it this time!"]
Dewey Drip -
7.
Tabu Island
Dick Mace -
8.
[All in Pieces]
Burp the Twerp -
9.
[Davy Jones's Locker]
The Spirit
This issue was modified by, among others
- Craig Delich
- Gregory Fischer
- Bob Hughes
- Clint Maxwell
- Lou Mougin (R.I.P.)
- Mark Q
- Tony R. Rose
- Jonathan Sari
- Jim Stangas
- Jim Van Dore
- David Wilt
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