Police Comics
#50
(January 1946)
Quality Comics,
1941 Series
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 60
- Indicia Frequency
- Monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1945-11-14
- 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 indicia is misprinted for this issue as #49 but the publish month of January 1946 is correct, while the real #49 has a date of December 1945. 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
- Plastic Man protects crookdom?
- Genre
- superhero; humor
- Characters
- Plastic Man [Patrick "Eel" O'Brian]; Woozy Winks
- Reprints
-
in Plastic Man Archives (DC, 1998 series) #5 ([October] 2003)
-
- Keywords
- boxing gloves
Plastic Man Protects Crookdom?
Plastic Man / comic story / 15 pages
- Genre
- superhero; humor
- Characters
- Plastic Man [Patrick "Eel" O'Brian]; Woozy Winks; Officer Murphy; Roget the Astrologer (introduction, death); Boss Doaker (villain, introduction); The Cannon (villain, introduction); Paulsen (villain, introduction)
- Synopsis
- Some gangsters kill Roget the fortune teller, who makes one final prediction before he dies.
- Reprints
- in Plastic Man Archives (DC, 1998 series) #5 ([October] 2003)
-
[Flatfoot the Fire Fighter]
Flatfoot Burns / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- humor; detective-mystery
- Characters
- Flatfoot Burns
[Parrot Puggins]
The Spirit / comic story / 8 pages
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- The Spirit [Denny Colt]; Parrot Puggins
- Reprints
- from The Spirit (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #6/20/1943 (June 20, 1943)
-
[no title indexed]
Dewey Drip / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- These yere books the civil-y-yans sends us is swell!
- Genre
- humor; military
- Characters
- Dewey Drip
- Synopsis
- Soldier Dewey, stationed on a Pacific island, reads a book about demanding a raise from one's employer and tries it out, but the Army isn't impressed.
[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
- Like I've always said, Human Bomb, pirates aren't so tough -- they've had just too much publicity!
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- 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.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
["Plastic Man protects crookdom?"]
Plastic Man -
1.
Plastic Man Protects Crookdom?
Plastic Man -
2.
[The Kindness Ploy]
Candy -
3.
[Flatfoot the Fire Fighter]
Flatfoot Burns -
4.
[Parrot Puggins]
The Spirit -
5.
[Super Breath]
Burp the Twerp -
6.
Strange Justice
Dick Mace -
7.
["These yere books the civil-y-yans sends us is swell!"]
Dewey Drip -
8.
["Like I've always said, Human Bomb, pirates aren't so tough -- they've had just too much publicity!"]
The Human Bomb -
9.
Disgrace
Manhunter
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- Craig Delich
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- Del Gruber
- Michael Hoskin
- Clint Maxwell
- Lou Mougin (R.I.P.)
- Tony R. Rose
- Jonathan Sari
- Brian Stewart
- Jim Van Dore
- David Wilt
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