Police Comics
#56
(July 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)
[no title indexed]
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
- high wire act; tightrope walking
[no title indexed]
Pepsi the Pepsi-Cola Cop / advertisement / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Is a track meet the same as horse meat, Pepsi?
- Genre
- humor
Overworked Genie
Plastic Man / comic story / 15 pages
- Genre
- superhero; humor
- Characters
- Plastic Man [Patrick "Eel" O'Brian]; Woozy Winks; Mickey; Mrs. O'Higginson (introduction); Yes-Man (villain, introduction); Mr. Groo (villain, introduction)
- Synopsis
- When Plas plays a prank on a youngster who is rubbing a lamp, gangsters find out and, believing it's real, kidnap the boy.
- Reprints
- in Plastic Man Archives (DC, 1998 series) #5 ([October] 2003)
-
[Signs of Reform]
Flatfoot Burns / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- humor; detective-mystery
- Characters
- Flatfoot Burns
Fire in the Sky
The Human Bomb / comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- Paul Gustavson
- Pencils
- Paul Gustavson
- Inks
- Paul Gustavson
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Paul Gustavson (sourced)
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- The Human Bomb [Roy Lincoln]; Hustace Throckmorton; Yarboe (villain, scientist, death)
- Synopsis
- A scientist is able to re-create Roy's explosive formula, and when the Human Bomb attacks and destroys the scientist's lair, the villain is destroyed with it.
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
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Button your tunic, Drip!
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Dewey Drip; Sergeant; Maw Drip
- Synopsis
- Dewey is mustered out of the Army and enjoys his freedom -- until his mother starts bossing him around.
Indexer Notes
In the very first Dewey Drip strip (Police Comics (1941 series) #1 August 1941), Dewey received his draft notice. The story in #56 is the last one in which he appears in Army uniform.
[The Vengeance]
Manhunter / comic story / 10 pages
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Manhunter [Dan Richards]; VILLAIN: The Vengeance (first appearance; dies)
Indexer Notes
Art formerly attributed to Al Bryant.
[no title indexed]
Specks / comic story / 2 pages
- Script
- Mike Senich (signed as M. Senich)
- Pencils
- Mike Senich (signed as M. Senich)
- Inks
- Mike Senich (signed as M. Senich)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Mister Cecil Clopkowski--
- Genre
- humor
[Big Jake Gooley]
The Spirit / comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- The Spirit; Ebony; Big Jake Gooley; Uncle Boss Gooley; Esau Gooley
- Reprints
- from The Spirit (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #10/1/1944 (October 1st, 1944)
-
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
[no title indexed]
Plastic Man -
1.
["Is a track meet the same as horse meat, Pepsi?"]
Pepsi the Pepsi-Cola Cop -
2.
Overworked Genie
Plastic Man -
3.
[Signs of Reform]
Flatfoot Burns -
4.
Fire in the Sky
The Human Bomb -
5.
[The Hooded Ones]
Candy -
6.
["Button your tunic, Drip!"]
Dewey Drip -
7.
[The Vengeance]
Manhunter -
8.
Bristol House Ghost
Dick Mace -
9.
["Mister Cecil Clopkowski--"]
Specks -
10.
[Big Jake Gooley]
The Spirit
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- Craig Delich
- Gregory Fischer
- Bob Hughes
- Daniel Martinez
- Clint Maxwell
- Lou Mougin (R.I.P.)
- Tony R. Rose
- Jonathan Sari
- Jim Van Dore
- Jim Walls
- David Wilt
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