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Issue: Police Comics #28 Public Domain
Publication Date: March 1944
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Issues: #28 of 127 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagQuality Comics
Brand: Quality Comic GroupView Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: Comic Magazines
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: none
Pages: 60
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 10 (9 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): George Brenner [as George E. Brenner]
Disclose Notes: Copyright 1944 by Comic Magazines.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Golden Age US
Paper Stock: glossy covers; newsprint interiors
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
Format Notes:  
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Original Artwork
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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): Jack Cole
Inker(s): Jack Cole
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Plastic Man
Character(s): Plastic Man [Patrick "Eel" O'Brian]; The Spirit [Denny Colt]
First Line: Ride 'im, Plastic Man!
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagPlastic Man Archives #2 published February 2000
as Cover - Police Comics #28 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Jack Cole
Penciller(s): Jack Cole
Inker(s): Jack Cole
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Jack Cole
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Plastic Man
Character(s): Plastic Man [Patrick "Eel" O'Brian]; Woozy Winks; Raymond Switchlock (introduction); Ravenal (introduction, death); Zana Crummer (introduction); Chuck Bernardi (introduction)
First Line: Wow! That's the last time I go to see a three-dimensional movie!
Synopsis: Plastic Man goes to Hollywood to consult on a film being made about him.
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In Content Item: FlagPlastic Man Archives #2 published February 2000
as Plastic Man -The Movie [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 15
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Bernard Dibble ?
Penciller(s): Bernard Dibble
Inker(s): Bernard Dibble
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Dewey Drip
Character(s): Dewey Drip; Pappy Drip; Major
First Line: Dear Gran'son Dewey -- we had quite a rumpus down here last week!
Synopsis: A visiting army major asks Pappy Drip to "drill" his neighbors, and Pappy does -- with his rifle. The irate men complain, and when Pappy blames it on the major, they decided to tar-and-feather the officer.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Tables Turned on Murder

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Jack Keller?
Inker(s): Jack Keller?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: mystery, superhero
Feature(s): Destiny
Character(s): Destiny
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
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The Case of the Cluttered Clues

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Milt Stein
Inker(s): Milt Stein
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, mystery
Feature(s): Flatfoot Burns
Character(s): Flatfoot Burns
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
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Radio Station WLXK

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Will Eisner
Penciller(s): Will Eisner
Inker(s): Will Eisner
Colorist(s): Joe Kubert
Letterer(s): Sam Rosen
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): The Spirit
Character(s): The Spirit [Denny Colt]
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagThe Spirit #2/16/1941 [Philadelphia Record] published February 1941
was Radio Station WLXK [Story on Interior Page(s) with IFC and Front Cover]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
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Chinatown Spectre

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Robert Hyatt ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: mystery
Feature(s): Dick Mace
Character(s): Dick Mace
Reprinting
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Mort Leav
Inker(s): Mort Leav
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): The Human Bomb
Character(s): The Human Bomb [Roy Lincoln]; Hustace Throckmorton
First Line: This would be a better day off, Hustace, if I didn't have to swim in gloves!
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagGolden-Age Greats Spotlight #2 published November 2003
as The Mortgage Melodrama [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: This is Leav. He draws large hands, many lively faces, some panels without backgrounds, and a special way of running with high lifted legs. Compare with his signed story in Wanted Comics #52.
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Just One Wish

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Jack Cole
Penciller(s): Jack Cole [Ralph Johns]
Inker(s): Jack Cole
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Jack Cole
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Burp the Twerp
Character(s): Burp the Twerp
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Blue Coats Don't Turn Back Bullets

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Al Bryant ?
Inker(s): Al Bryant ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Manhunter
Character(s): Manhunter [Dan Richards]; Mr. Tolan (villain, Tommy's brother); Tommy Tolan (villain, Tolan's brother, reforms)
Synopsis: When Officer Richards brings in a local gangster, the court remands the felon's little brother Tommy to Richard's custody. But Tommy has no intention of going straight, and instead betrays Richards to his brother's gang when he discovers him to be Manhunter. However, once Manhunter was in the gang's grip, Tommy learns that his brother had been betrayed by his own gang. Vowing to keep Dan's secret, he helps the crimefighter to escape his bonds.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 10

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