Police Comics
#44
(July 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 (editor)
[There's No Fool Like an Old Fool!]
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) #4 (2002 [January 2003])
-
[no title indexed]
Plastic Man / comic story / 15 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Girls! Boys!...If you don't stop, I'll get Plastic Man after you!
- Genre
- superhero; humor
- Characters
- Plastic Man [Patrick "Eel" O'Brian]; Woozy Winks; R. Wist (introduction); Augustus Diffle (introduction, death); T. Wellington Pike [aka Dandy Ned] (villain, introduction); Mrs. Diffle (villain, introduction)
- Synopsis
- Woozy is blamed for a murder in an old folks home.
- Reprints
- in Plastic Man Archives (DC, 1998 series) #4 (2002 [January 2003])
-
[no title indexed]
Dewey Drip / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Thet sar-jint is still pickin' on our Dewey!
- Genre
- humor; military
- Characters
- Dewey Drip; Sergeant; Ma Drip; Pappy Drip
- Synopsis
- Ma makes a voodoo doll of Dewey's sergeant and sticks a pin in its behind. Somewhere in the Pacific theatre of war, Dewey accidentally pokes his sergeant with his bayonet.
[The Hunt For Trigger Swain]
Manhunter / comic story / 10 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- The most dangerous game ever hunted ... man!
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Manhunter [Dan Richards]; Thor; Trigger Swain (villain); Fluff; Inspector Casty; Richards
- Synopsis
- Grisly manhunt for a desperate murderer.
Indexer Notes
Pencils formerly attributed to Sam Citron.
[no title indexed]
Burp the Twerp / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- In a shady dive...
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Burp the Twerp
[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
- At the experimental laboratory of Lincoln and Throckmorton, Inc.
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- The Human Bomb [Roy Lincoln]; Hustace Throckmorton
- Synopsis
- The Human Bomb and Hustace face an inventor who has created a sea serpent that launches cannonballs.
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.
Backfire
Dick Mace / text story / 2 pages
- Characters
- Dick Mace; Miss Byrd; Miss Carruthers; Jason Coler
Indexer Notes
Dick Mace text story.
[The Whale Tale]
Flatfoot Burns / comic story / 6 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Why must you be so stubborn?
- Genre
- humor; detective-mystery
- Characters
- Flatfoot Burns
[Three Wishes]
The Spirit / comic story / 8 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Once upon a time ... in a place called Central City...
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- The Spirit [Denny Colt]; Ebony White; Aladdin
- Reprints
- from The Spirit (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #7/11/1943 (July 11, 1943)
-
Editing
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Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
[There's No Fool Like an Old Fool!]
Plastic Man -
1.
["Girls! Boys!...If you don't stop, I'll get Plastic Man after you!"]
Plastic Man -
2.
["Thet sar-jint is still pickin' on our Dewey!"]
Dewey Drip -
3.
[The Hunt For Trigger Swain]
Manhunter -
4.
["In a shady dive..."]
Burp the Twerp -
5.
Bazaar Tonite
Candy -
6.
["At the experimental laboratory of Lincoln and Throckmorton, Inc."]
The Human Bomb -
7.
Backfire
Dick Mace -
8.
[The Whale Tale]
Flatfoot Burns -
9.
[Three Wishes]
The Spirit
This issue was modified by, among others
- Craig Delich
- Gregory Fischer
- Michael Hoskin
- Bob Hughes
- Clint Maxwell
- Darrel McCann
- Lou Mougin (R.I.P.)
- Mike Nielsen
- Tony R. Rose
- Jonathan Sari
- Jim Van Dore
- David Wilt
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