Police Comics
#54
(May 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)
[Plastic Man Erases Crime]
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)
-
The Thinking Machine
Plastic Man / comic story / 15 pages
- Genre
- superhero; humor
- Characters
- Plastic Man [Patrick "Eel" O'Brian]; Woozy Winks; Chief Branner; Professor Medew (introduction, death); The Thinker [Goofty Garlow] (villain, introduction)
- Synopsis
- A not so bright janitor is inspired by a thinking machine to kill it's creator and commit crimes.
- Reprints
- in Plastic Man Archives (DC, 1998 series) #5 ([October] 2003)
-
[no title indexed]
Dewey Drip / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Oh, Paw! ... A lettuh fum Dewey!
- Genre
- humor; military
- Characters
- Dewey Drip; Ma Drip; Pappy Drip; General
- Synopsis
- Stationed in India, Dewey serves his general a cup of tea made with leaves his mother had sent him. The "tea" turns out to be catnip and it attracts tigers.
[no title indexed]
Manhunter / comic story / 10 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- A noted criminal trial ends...
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Manhunter [Dan Richards]
Indexer Notes
Credits from Martin O'Hearn at http://martinohearn.blogspot.com/ ; art formerly attributed to Al Bryant.
[The Clothing Robberies]
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
- Snf! Snf! What's that, Hustace...a new soft drink?
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- The Human Bomb [Roy Lincoln]; Hustace Throckmorton; Honeybun
- Synopsis
- Hustace, now an inventor, creates a perfume that makes men crazy for Honeybun, which is good in itself, because Hustace is now interested in another woman.
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]
Candy / comic story / 7 pages
- Script
- Harry Sahle (signed)
- Pencils
- Harry Sahle (signed)
- Inks
- Harry Sahle (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Grab a five!...I've curbed th' jive!
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Candy O'Connor
[Byron's Memoirs]
The Spirit / comic story / 8 pages
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- The Spirit [Denny Colt]
- Reprints
- from The Spirit (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #3/14/1943 (March 14, 1943)
-
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
[Plastic Man Erases Crime]
Plastic Man -
1.
The Thinking Machine
Plastic Man -
2.
["Oh, Paw! ... A lettuh fum Dewey!"]
Dewey Drip -
3.
["A noted criminal trial ends..."]
Manhunter -
4.
[The Clothing Robberies]
Flatfoot Burns -
5.
["Snf! Snf! What's that, Hustace...a new soft drink?"]
The Human Bomb -
6.
Haunted Theatre
Dick Mace -
7.
["Grab a five!...I've curbed th' jive!"]
Candy -
8.
[Byron's Memoirs]
The Spirit
This issue was modified by, among others
- Craig Delich
- Gregory Fischer
- Katy Hayhurst
- Michael Hoskin
- Lou Mougin (R.I.P.)
- Mike Nielsen
- Tony R. Rose
- Jonathan Sari
- Jim Van Dore
- David Wilt
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