Police Comics
#88
(March 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)
Issue Notes
Comic Magazines, Inc. 578 Summer St, Stamford, CT
Publisher Everett M. Arnold
editor: George E. Brenner, 25 West 4th St, NY,NY
Owners: Everett M. Arnold, Claire C. Arnold
Printer: 8 Lord ST, Buffalo NY
Publisher Everett M. Arnold
editor: George E. Brenner, 25 West 4th St, NY,NY
Owners: Everett M. Arnold, Claire C. Arnold
Printer: 8 Lord ST, Buffalo NY
[no title indexed]
Plastic Man / comic story / 15 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- What will tomorrow bring?
- Genre
- superhero; humor
- Characters
- Plastic Man [Patrick "Eel" O'Brian]; Woozy Winks; The Seer (villain, introduction)
[no title indexed]
Dewey Drip / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Y'ore a big league scout, y'say...
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Dewey Drip; Maw Drip
- Synopsis
- Dewey demonstrates his throwing prowess to a visiting baseball scout, knocking off the man's hat with a rock, etc. However, one of the Drip's neighbors doesn't realise what's going on and hits the scout squarely with a rock.
[no title indexed]
Dewey Drip / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Well thar be Eph Jorkins still trying to ride that mule o' his'n!
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Dewey Drip; Eph Jorkins; Maw Drip
- Synopsis
- A tourist fisherman says he's not going to eat giant catfish "Old Whiskers;" he's going to mount him. The hillbillies imagine that means ride the fish, and they want to see it.
[Surprise Package]
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
Indexer Notes
Final appearance in Police Comics. Honeybun moves to National Comics (Quality Comics, 1940 Series), starting with #71 (April 1949).
[The Tenacre Place]
The Spirit / comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- The Spirit [Denny Colt]
- Reprints
-
from The Spirit (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #1/7/1945 (January 7th, 1945)
-
The Rodeo
Plastic Man / text story / 1.75 pages
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Plastic Man [Patrick "Eel" O'Brian]
[Thor and the Kidnappers]
Manhunter / comic story / 8 pages
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Manhunter [Dan Richards]
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
Plastic Man Sees through the Seer!
Plastic Man -
1.
["What will tomorrow bring?"]
Plastic Man -
2.
["Y'ore a big league scout, y'say..."]
Dewey Drip -
3.
["Well thar be Eph Jorkins still trying to ride that mule o' his'n!"]
Dewey Drip -
4.
[Surprise Package]
Honeybun -
5.
[The Stamp Champ]
Candy -
6.
[The Tenacre Place]
The Spirit -
7.
The Rodeo
Plastic Man -
8.
[no title indexed]
-
9.
[Thor and the Kidnappers]
Manhunter
This issue was modified by, among others
- Craig Delich
- Gregory Fischer
- Merlin Haas
- Bob Hughes
- Clint Maxwell
- Donald Dale Milne
- Tony R. Rose
- Jonathan Sari
- Jim Van Dore
- David Wilt
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