Police Comics
#62
(January 1947)
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)
Cupid's Killer!
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) #6 ([November] 2004)
-
The Cupid's Bow Murder
Plastic Man / comic story / 15 pages
- Genre
- superhero; humor
- Characters
- Plastic Man [Patrick "Eel" O'Brian]; Woozy Winks; Hamlet Upgrade (introduction, death); Mr Humdrum (introduction); Chief Branner; Mr. Wimple (introduction); Mr. Fowlplay (introduction); Miss Leda Van Doom (villain, introduction); Mobsy Marrowby (villain, introduction); The Butler (villain, introduction)
- Synopsis
- A man is murdered, and the butler did it. But Plas also discovers that Miss Van Doom is beautiful but deadly.
- Reprints
- in Plastic Man Archives (DC, 1998 series) #6 ([November] 2004)
-
[no title indexed]
Specks / comic story / 2 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Wow! Wot hit you -- an atomic bomb?
- Genre
- humor
The Sneer
Manhunter / comic story / 10 pages
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Manhunter [Dan Richards]; the Sneer (villain; introduction)
[no title indexed]
Candy / comic story / 7 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Jeepers, Ted, you've defeated Starill Duste!
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Candy O'Connor
[no title indexed]
Honeybun / comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- Paul Gustavson (sourced)
- Pencils
- Paul Gustavson (sourced)
- Inks
- Paul Gustavson (sourced)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Paul Gustavson (sourced)
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- But, Miggs -- the doctor said I should take your temperature at once!
- Genre
- romance; domestic
- Characters
- Honeybun; Mr. Miggs
[no title indexed]
Flatfoot Burns / comic story / 6 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- (Gulp!) Take it easy, Rube!
- Genre
- humor; detective-mystery
- Characters
- Flatfoot Burns
The Case of the Will O'Wisp Murders
The Spirit / comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- The Spirit [Denny Colt]
- Reprints
- from The Spirit (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #11/5/1944 (November 5th, 1944)
-
[no title indexed]
Dewey Drip / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- And the winner of Annual Skonk Holler Whisker Contest is...
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Dewey Drip; Gran'pap Diogenes Drip
- Synopsis
- Dewey's grandfather wins a beard contest. He stands to earn money as the "Mossy Konk Billboard Man" for a hair restorer company, but gives away his beard, bit by bit, as souvenirs to young women.
Indexer Notes
"Konk" is a folk spelling of "conk," a hair-style worn by African-American men in this era.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
Cupid's Killer!
Plastic Man -
1.
The Cupid's Bow Murder
Plastic Man -
2.
["Wow! Wot hit you -- an atomic bomb?"]
Specks -
3.
The Sneer
Manhunter -
4.
["Jeepers, Ted, you've defeated Starill Duste!"]
Candy -
5.
["But, Miggs -- the doctor said I should take your temperature at once!"]
Honeybun -
6.
Legal Pirates
Dick Mace -
7.
["(Gulp!) Take it easy, Rube!"]
Flatfoot Burns -
8.
The Case of the Will O'Wisp Murders
The Spirit -
9.
["And the winner of Annual Skonk Holler Whisker Contest is..."]
Dewey Drip
This issue was modified by, among others
- Craig Delich
- Gregory Fischer
- Clint Maxwell
- Lou Mougin (R.I.P.)
- Tony R. Rose
- Jonathan Sari
- Jim Van Dore
- David Wilt
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