Police Comics
#87
(February 1949)
Quality Comics,
1941 Series
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 52
- 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 Finds the Horn of Plenty... of Trouble!
Plastic Man / cover / 1 page
- Genre
- superhero; humor
- Characters
- Plastic Man [Patrick "Eel" O'Brian]; Woozy Winks
- Reprints
-
in Police Comics (Alval Publishers, 1949 series) #87 (May 1949)
-
[The Horn of Plenty... of Trouble!]
Plastic Man / comic story / 15 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Fifty million Frenchmen can't be wrong...
- Genre
- superhero; humor
- Characters
- Plastic Man [Patrick "Eel" O'Brian]; Woozy Winks; Phonie LeGhoum [Phoney Loggum] (villain, introduction)
- Synopsis
- Plastic Man chases a phoney Frenchman in the French Quarter of New Orleans.
- Reprints
- in Police Comics (Alval Publishers, 1949 series) #87 (May 1949)
-
Indexer Notes
title from cover
[no title indexed]
Dewey Drip / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Yo' hadda fire twice, Paw...
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Maw Drip; Paw Drip; Eph; Dewey Drip
- Synopsis
- Paw's failing eyesight results in him mistaking an escaped circus tiger for a chipmunk.
[no title indexed]
Dewey Drip / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Bosh! There nevuh was no b'yootiful gals in these hills like they show in these funny pitchers!
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Dewey Drip
- Synopsis
- Dewey mistakes an actress playing a hillbilly gal for a real hillbilly gal.
[The Second Honeymoon]
Honeybun / comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- Paul Gustavson (sourced)
- Pencils
- Paul Gustavson (sourced)
- Inks
- Paul Gustavson (sourced)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Paul Gustavson (sourced)
- Genre
- romance; domestic
- Characters
- Honeybun
[no title indexed]
The Spirit / comic story / 7 pages
- Script
- Manly Wade Wellman ? (sourced) (Bob Hughes)
- Pencils
- Lou Fine
- Inks
- Don Komisarow
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Martin deMuth
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Yes-- it takes all kind of murderers to make an underworld!
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- The Spirit [Denny Colt]; Commissioner Dolan; Ebony White; Bond Bratton (villain, death)
- Synopsis
- The Spirit solves the murder of Bond Bratton.
- Reprints
-
from The Spirit (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #4/15/1945 (April 15th, 1945) - in Police Comics (Alval Publishers, 1949 series) #87 (May 1949)
-
Woozy's Unquenchable Thirst
Plastic Man / text story / 2 pages
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Plastic Man [Patrick "Eel" O'Brian]; Woozy Winks
[no title indexed]
Manhunter / comic story / 8 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Everybody likes a joke...but not when the price for enjoying it is death!
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Manhunter [Dan Richards]; Thor (Manhunter's dog); Jim Dyce
- Synopsis
- Dan Richards, on patrol, goes past a posh party at Jim Dyce's house and hears the sounds of murder. He rushes to investigate as Manhunter. It looks like practical joker Jim Dyce is now a murderer, but things aren't always what they seem to be.
- Reprints
- in Police Comics (Alval Publishers, 1949 series) #87 (May 1949)
-
Editing
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Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
Plastic Man Finds the Horn of Plenty... of Trouble!
Plastic Man -
1.
[The Horn of Plenty... of Trouble!]
Plastic Man -
2.
["Yo' hadda fire twice, Paw..."]
Dewey Drip -
3.
["Bosh! There nevuh was no b'yootiful gals in these hills like they show in these funny pitchers!"]
Dewey Drip -
4.
[The Second Honeymoon]
Honeybun -
5.
Romantic Poems by O'Connor
Candy -
6.
["Yes-- it takes all kind of murderers to make an underworld!"]
The Spirit -
7.
Woozy's Unquenchable Thirst
Plastic Man -
8.
["Everybody likes a joke...but not when the price for enjoying it is death!"]
Manhunter
This issue was modified by, among others
- Peter Croome
- Craig Delich
- Gregory Fischer
- Merlin Haas
- Michael Hoskin
- Bob Hughes
- Clint Maxwell
- Mike Nielsen
- Tony R. Rose
- Jonathan Sari
- Jim Van Dore
- David Wilt
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