Police Comics #48

(November 1945)

City of the Future (Table of Contents)

Plastic Man / comic story / 15 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Jack Cole

Pencils:

Jack Cole

Inks:

Jack Cole

Colors:

?

Letters:

Jack Cole

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Plastic Man [Patrick "Eel" O'Brian]; Woozy Winks; Jasper Tipple (introduction); Big Beaver [Joe Grover] (villain, introduction); The Cutter (villain, introduction)

Synopsis:

Some gangsters trick Jasper Tipple into building his city of the future... Futuria... for them.

Reprints:

• in Plastic Man Archives (DC, 1998 series) #4 ([November] 2002)

Keywords:

Futuria

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

Dewey Drip / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Bernard Dibble

Inks:

Bernard Dibble

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

humor

Characters:

Dewey Drip

Indexer Notes

Writer credit revised from "Joe Devlin" (presumably a typo for "John Devlin") to ? by Craig Delich 2013-4-7. The Who's Who does not indicate a writing credit for John Devlin on this strip. Artist correction from Joe Devlin to Bernard Dibble, who took over this strip as artist, not writer, in 1943 from John Devlin.

[The Catsup Bottle That Dripped Blood] (Table of Contents)

Manhunter / comic story / 10 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Joe Millard

Pencils:

Pete Riss

Inks:

?

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Manhunter [Dan Richards]

Indexer Notes

Credits from Martin O'Hearn at http://martinohearn.blogspot.com/ ; pencils formerly attributed to Al Bryant.

[Tiny Ned Toole] (Table of Contents)

Burp the Twerp / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

Jack Cole

Pencils:

Jack Cole

Inks:

Jack Cole

Colors:

?

Letters:

Jack Cole

Content Information

Genre:

humor

Characters:

Burp the Twerp

[The Cheerleader Tryouts] (Table of Contents)

Candy / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Harry Sahle

Pencils:

Harry Sahle

Inks:

Harry Sahle

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

humor; teen

Characters:

Candy O'Connor

[The Human Bomb Turns Crook?] (Table of Contents)

Human Bomb / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Paul Gustavson

Pencils:

Paul Gustavson

Inks:

Paul Gustavson

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Human Bomb [Roy Lincoln]

The Water Burner (Table of Contents)

Dick Mace / text story / 2 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Letters:

typeset

Indexer Notes

Dick Mace text story.

Prominent Detective Enters Society (Table of Contents)

Flatfoot Burns / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Al Stahl

Pencils:

Al Stahl

Inks:

Al Stahl

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

humor; detective-mystery

Characters:

Flatfoot Burns

The Spirit Ain't Fair to Ebony (Table of Contents)

The Spirit / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Bill Woolfolk

Pencils:

Lou Fine

Inks:

Quality Staff

Colors:

?

Letters:

Martin DeMuth

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

The Spirit [Denny Colt]

Reprints:

• from The Spirit (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #5/30/1943 (May 30th, 1943)