Police Comics
#37
(December 1944)
Quality Comics,
1941 Series
- Volume
- [1]
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 60
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1944-10-13
- 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)
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, Part 2, Periodicals, 1944, New Series, Volume 39, Number 2. Class B periodical. Copyright registration number B 650827.
[no title indexed]
Plastic Man / cover / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Yup! Love comes to Woozy
- Genre
- superhero; humor
- Characters
- Plastic Man [Eel O'Brian]; Woozy Winks
- Reprints
-
in Plastic Man Archives (DC, 1998 series) #3 (2001 [January 2002])
-
Love Comes to Woozy
Plastic Man / comic story / 15 pages
- Genre
- superhero; humor
- Characters
- Plastic Man [Eel O'Brian] (also disguised as Biscuit Bordoni); Woozy Winks; Chief Branner; Felina (first appearance); Saxon (first appearance)
- Synopsis
- An undercover operative pretends to fall in love with Woozy.
- Reprints
- in Plastic Man Archives (DC, 1998 series) #3 (2001 [January 2002])
-
Indexer Notes
The title is from the cover.
[no title indexed]
Dewey Drip / comic story / 1 page
- Script
- Bernard Dibble ? (see notes)
- Pencils
- Bernard Dibble (see notes)
- Inks
- Bernard Dibble (see notes)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Deer son Dewey--
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Dewey Drip; Ma Drip; Awful Drip
- Synopsis
- Dewey's tough cousin Awful Drip tries to join up, but once his bushy beard has been removed, the Army rejects him due to his "homely an' scared" face.
Indexer Notes
Writer credit revised from John Devlin to ? by Craig Delich on April 6, 2013. The Who's Who does not indicate a writing credit for Devlin on this strip. Writer credit later updated to tentative Bernard Dibble. Artist correction from John Devlin to Bernard Dibble, who took over this strip in 1943 from John Devlin.
[The Match]
Manhunter / comic story / 10 pages
- Script
- Joe Millard (sourced) (see notes)
- Pencils
- Pete Riss (sourced) (see notes)
- Inks
- ?
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Manhunter [Dan Richards]; Thor the Thunder Dog; The Match (first appearance, villain)
Indexer Notes
The art was formerly credited to Al Bryant.
[The Super Changeable Suit]
Burp the Twerp / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Burp the Twerp
[The Coming of Candy O'Connor]
Candy / comic story / 7 pages
- Script
- Ed Goggin ? (see notes)
- Pencils
- Harry Sahle (signed)
- Inks
- Harry Sahle (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Candy O'Connor (first appearance); Mrs. Tim O'Connor (first appearance; Candy's mother); Ted Dawson (first appearance); Trish (first appearance); Cornelia Clyde (first appearance)
Indexer Notes
Ed Goggin was the writer of the Candy newspaper strip (2 October 1944 to 2 June 1945) when Harry Sahle was drawing the strip, and is usually presumed to be the writer of the first episodes of Candy as well, rather than Harry Sahle.
[Diamonds and the Volcano]
The Human Bomb / comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- Paul Gustavson (sourced)
- Pencils
- Paul Gustavson
- Inks
- Paul Gustavson
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Paul Gustavson (sourced)
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- The Human Bomb [Roy Lincoln]; Hustace Throckmorton
Indexer Notes
Gustavson returns as scripter of this feature with this story according to Jim Amash in The Quality Companion.
Case of the Sun Cabinet
Dick Mace / text story / 2 pages
- Genre
- adventure
- Characters
- Dick Mace
Indexer Notes
Dick Mace text story.
[The Antoinette Heirloom]
Flatfoot Burns / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- humor; detective-mystery
- Characters
- Flatfoot Burns
[A Dull Week]
The Spirit / comic story / 8 pages
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- The Spirit [Denny Colt]
- Reprints
- from The Spirit (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #5/11/1941 (May 11, 1941)
-
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
["Yup! Love comes to Woozy"]
Plastic Man -
1.
Love Comes to Woozy
Plastic Man -
2.
["Deer son Dewey--"]
Dewey Drip -
3.
[The Match]
Manhunter -
4.
[The Super Changeable Suit]
Burp the Twerp -
5.
[The Coming of Candy O'Connor]
Candy -
6.
[Diamonds and the Volcano]
The Human Bomb -
7.
Case of the Sun Cabinet
Dick Mace -
8.
[The Antoinette Heirloom]
Flatfoot Burns -
9.
[A Dull Week]
The Spirit
This issue was modified by, among others
- Ray Bottorff Jr
- Craig Delich
- Gregory Fischer
- Bob Hughes
- Edgar Loftin
- Lou Mougin (R.I.P.)
- Tony R. Rose
- Jim Van Dore
- David Wilt
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