Police Comics
#53
(April 1946)
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); Busy Arnold (credited as E. M. Arnold) (general manager)
[no title indexed]
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) #5 ([October] 2003)
-
- Keywords
- parachutes
[The Evil Genius of Dr. Erudite]
Plastic Man / comic story / 15 pages
- Genre
- superhero; humor
- Characters
- Plastic Man [Patrick "Eel" O'Brian]; Woozy Winks; Dr. Erudite (villain, introduction)
- Synopsis
- Dr. Erudite invents a Proplasm machine that clones a double of himself to help him commit crimes.
- Reprints
- in Plastic Man Archives (DC, 1998 series) #5 ([October] 2003)
-
Sweet Sleep
Flatfoot Burns / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- humor; detective-mystery
- Characters
- Flatfoot Burns
[no title indexed]
The Human Bomb / comic story / 6 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- You mean those old fossils on the professors' committee won't let us help them explore the underground caves they found?
- 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.
Letters credit from Terry Gustafson, Paul Gustavson's son.
[no title indexed]
Dewey Drip / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- By gravy! 'At's for me!
- Genre
- humor; military
- Characters
- Dewey Drip; Ma Drip; Pappy Drip
- Synopsis
- Dewey sends his mother a recording of him singing.
[Dazeen, Master of Illusion]
Manhunter / comic story / 10 pages
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Manhunter [Dan Richards]; VILLAIN: Dazeen (first appearance)
Indexer Notes
Art formerly attributed to Al Bryant.
[Murder on the Job]
The Spirit / comic story / 8 pages
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- The Spirit [Denny Colt]; Ebony; Dolan
- Reprints
- from The Spirit (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #9/26/1943 (September 26, 1943)
-
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
[no title indexed]
Plastic Man -
1.
[The Evil Genius of Dr. Erudite]
Plastic Man -
2.
Sweet Sleep
Flatfoot Burns -
3.
["You mean those old fossils on the professors' committee won't let us help them explore the underground caves they found?"]
The Human Bomb -
4.
[Van Jackson]
Candy -
5.
["By gravy! 'At's for me!"]
Dewey Drip -
6.
Death at the Horse Show
-
7.
[Dazeen, Master of Illusion]
Manhunter -
8.
[Package Delivery]
Burp the Twerp -
9.
[Murder on the Job]
The Spirit
This issue was modified by, among others
- Craig Delich
- Gregory Fischer
- Michael Hoskin
- Bob Hughes
- Clint Maxwell
- Lou Mougin (R.I.P.)
- Tony R. Rose
- Jonathan Sari
- Jim Van Dore
- David Wilt
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