Police Comics
#47
(October 1945)
Quality Comics,
1941 Series
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 60
- Indicia Frequency
- Monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1945-08-15
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Comic Magazines
- Brand
-
Quality Comic Group
- Editing
- George Brenner (credited as George E. Brenner) (editor); Busy Arnold (credited as E. M. Arnold) (general manager)
Issue Notes
The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1945, New Series, Vol. 40, No. 4.
[no title indexed]
Plastic Man / cover / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Dr. Slicer tries to make Plastic Man a human guinea pig!
- Genre
- superhero; humor
- Characters
- Plastic Man [Patrick "Eel" O'Brian]; Woozy Winks
- Reprints
-
in Plastic Man Archives (DC, 1998 series) #4 (2002 [January 2003])
-
- Keywords
- racing
[Slicer and Doser's Medical School]
Plastic Man / comic story / 15 pages
- Genre
- superhero; humor
- Characters
- Plastic Man [Patrick "Eel" O'Brian]; Woozy Winks; Chief Branner; Harry the Horse (villain, introduction); Benny Yokelvitz (villain, introduction); Muscles (villain, introduction); Dr. Slicer (villain, introduction); Dr. Doser (villain, introduction)
- Synopsis
- Two doctors try to unravel the secret to Plastic Man's powers, but they discover that Plas cannot be cut or pierced in any way.
- Reprints
- in Plastic Man Archives (DC, 1998 series) #4 (2002 [January 2003])
-
[The Sun Vanishes]
Flatfoot Burns / comic story / 6 pages
- 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
- It is well for great minds to confer on mighty problems...
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- The Human Bomb [Roy Lincoln]
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.
I'm Guilty!
Manhunter / comic story / 10 pages
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Manhunter [Dan Richards]
Indexer Notes
Art formerly attributed to Al Bryant.
[no title indexed]
Dewey Drip / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Hey, Dewey... whatcha doin' up in the tree?
- Genre
- humor; military
- Characters
- Dewey Drip; Colonel
- Synopsis
- On a Pacific island, Dewey steals a large bird's egg from a nest and gives it to his colonel for breakfast. The colonel is attacked by the egg's mother bird.
[The Killer Nurse]
The Spirit / comic story / 8 pages
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- The Spirit [Denny Colt]
- Reprints
- from The Spirit (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #11/28/1943 (November 28th, 1943)
-
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
["Dr. Slicer tries to make Plastic Man a human guinea pig!"]
Plastic Man -
1.
[Slicer and Doser's Medical School]
Plastic Man -
2.
[The Sun Vanishes]
Flatfoot Burns -
3.
["It is well for great minds to confer on mighty problems..."]
The Human Bomb -
4.
[Dawson the Diver]
Candy -
5.
[Dr. Fixit]
Burp the Twerp -
6.
I'm Guilty!
Manhunter -
7.
The Crawling Death
Dick Mace -
8.
["Hey, Dewey... whatcha doin' up in the tree?"]
Dewey Drip -
9.
[The Killer Nurse]
The Spirit
This issue was modified by, among others
- Craig Delich
- Gregory Fischer
- Del Gruber
- Phil Hart
- Clint Maxwell
- Lou Mougin (R.I.P.)
- Tony R. Rose
- Jonathan Sari
- Jim Van Dore
- David Wilt
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