Police Comics
#55
(June 1946)
Quality Comics,
1941 Series
- Volume
- [1]
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 60
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1946-04-17
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Comic Magazines
- Brand
-
Quality Comic Group
- Printer
- Printed in U. S. A.
- Editing
- George Brenner (credited as George E. Brenner) (editor); Busy Arnold (credited as E. M. Arnold) (general manager)
Issue Notes
The on-sale date and volume number are from the publication date and volume number reported to the U.S. Copyright Office found in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Volume 1, Part 2, Numbers 1 and 2 (Incorporating Part 2, Volume 41, 1946, New Series), Periodicals including Renewal Registrations, 1946-1947. Class B periodical. Copyright registration number B36463.
Sleepy Eyes!
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
- fishing; inflatable rafts
Sleepy Eyes
Plastic Man / comic story / 15 pages
- Genre
- superhero; humor
- Characters
- Plastic Man [Patrick "Eel" O'Brian]; Woozy Winks; Grant Horden (introduction); Dr. Teen (introduction); Dr. Geen (introduction); Dr. Zeen (introduction); Sleepy Eyes (villain, introduction)
- Synopsis
- Sleepy Eyes has the ability to hypnotize people and put them to sleep. Unfortunately for him, it doesn't work against Woozy Winks because he has a natural sleepiness!
- Reprints
- in Plastic Man Archives (DC, 1998 series) #5 ([October] 2003)
-
Indexer Notes
Script credit was previously credited to Jack Cole.
The Great Circus Mystery
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 (sourced) (see notes)
- Pencils
- Paul Gustavson (sourced) (see notes)
- Inks
- Paul Gustavson (sourced) (see notes)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Paul Gustavson (sourced)
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- A glimpse of the two great minds of the Lincoln-Throckmorton Laboratories, Inc. ...
- 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.
[no title indexed]
Dewey Drip / comic story / 1 page
- Script
- Bernard Dibble ? (sourced)
- Pencils
- Bernard Dibble (sourced)
- Inks
- Bernard Dibble (sourced)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Oh, happy day! On the way home at last!
- Genre
- humor; military
- Characters
- Dewey Drip; Ma Drip; Pappy Drip
- Synopsis
- Dewey has enough "points" to be discharged from the army. Pappy sits on a porcupine and gets "points" of his own.
Indexer Notes
"Soldiers were given one point for each month of military service and one additional point was given for each month of overseas service. Each battle star or decoration earned a soldier 5 points. Soldiers were awarded 12 points per dependent child up to a maximum of three children. A total of 85 points was needed for eligibility. Soldiers who had earned that number of points were to be demobilized as soon as transport back to the United States was available."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demobilization_of_United_States_armed_forces…
The Masked Pirate
Manhunter / comic story / 10 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Joe Kubert (sourced) (see notes)
- Inks
- Joe Kubert (sourced) (see notes)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Manhunter [Dan Richards]; The Masked Pirate [John Reeves] (villain)
- Synopsis
- The actor, John Reeves, takes his stage character, the Masked Pirate, to heart in a jilted lover's revenge plot, killing his co-star for real, on set.
Indexer Notes
Art formerly credited to John Spranger ?.
[The Stone Mountain Tunnel]
Burp the Twerp / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Burp the Twerp
Indexer Notes
Final appearance in Police Comics. Burp the Twerp becomes a floating feature appearing in various Quality comics. Burp the Twerp's next appearances are in Blackhawk (Quality Comics, 1944 series) #13 and The Barker (Quality Comics, 1946 Series) #2 (both Winter 1946).
[The Last Gang in Rotten Row]
The Spirit / comic story / 8 pages
- Script
- Will Eisner
- Pencils
- Will Eisner; Quality Staff
- Inks
- Quality Staff
- Colors
- Quality Staff
- Letters
- Martin deMuth
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Commissioner Dolan; Ellen Dolan; The Spirit [Denny Colt]; Ebony White
- Reprints
- from The Spirit (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #8/15/1943 (August 15, 1943)
-
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
Sleepy Eyes!
Plastic Man -
1.
Sleepy Eyes
Plastic Man -
2.
The Great Circus Mystery
Flatfoot Burns -
3.
["A glimpse of the two great minds of the Lincoln-Throckmorton Laboratories, Inc. ..."]
The Human Bomb -
4.
["Oh, happy day! On the way home at last!"]
Dewey Drip -
5.
Guessing Contest
Candy -
6.
Speed King
Dick Mace -
7.
The Masked Pirate
Manhunter -
8.
[The Stone Mountain Tunnel]
Burp the Twerp -
9.
[The Last Gang in Rotten Row]
The Spirit
This issue was modified by, among others
- Ray Bottorff Jr
- Craig Delich
- Gregory Fischer
- Michael Hoskin
- Clint Maxwell
- Donald Dale Milne
- Lou Mougin (R.I.P.)
- Tony R. Rose
- Jim Van Dore
- David Wilt
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