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Issue: Police Comics #50

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Publication Date: January 1946

Issue #50
- #40
- #41
- #42
- #43
- #44
- #45
- #46
- #47
- #48
- #49
- ✔ #50
- #51
- #52
- #53
- #54
- #55
- #56
- #57
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- #59
- #60
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Detail

Issues: #50 of 127 Issues

Title:

Variant: unnamed

Rating:

Publisher: Flag

Quality Comics

Brand:

Indicia Publisher: Comic Magazines

On Sale Date: 11/14/1945

Volume:

Pages: 60

ISBN: none

UPC/EAN: none

Price: $0.10 USD

Indicia Frequency:

Content Items: 10 (9 stories, 1 cover)

Editor(s):

Notes: The indicia is misprinted for this issue as #49 but the publish month of January 1946 is correct, while the real #49 has a date of December 1945. The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1945, New Series, Vol. 40, No. 4.

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Format

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:

Reprinted In3

2 Content Items
- [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]1
- Plastic Man Protects Crookdom? [Story on Interior Page(s)]1

reprinted 2 times as Content Items in other Issues.

Some/all of Issue reprinted as a Content Item in another Issue:

Plastic Man Archives #5 published October 2003 as Backcover [Promotional Material (from Publisher) on Interior Page(s)] cover

Reprinted From1

1 Content Item
- Parrot Puggins [Story on Interior Page(s)]1

reprinted from a Content Item in another Issue.

Images1

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Cover, Front

Original Artwork

Digital Edition

Adult Image

Title Page

Indicia on this Page

Assets0

Content Items (10 total)

[untitled]

Illustration on Cover, Front

Credits

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Character(s): Plastic Man [Patrick "Eel" O'Brian]; Woozy Winks

Reprinting

In Content Item: Flag

Plastic Man Archives #5 published October 2003
as Cover - Police Comics #50 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Plastic Man Protects Crookdom?

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; Officer Murphy; Roget the Astrologer (introduction, death); Boss Doaker (villain, introduction); The Cannon (villain, introduction); Paulsen (villain, introduction)

Synopsis: Some gangsters kill Roget the fortune teller, who makes one final prediction before he dies.

Reprinting

In Content Item: Flag

Plastic Man Archives #5 published October 2003
as Plastic Man Protects Crookdom? [Story on Interior Page(s)]

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 15

The Kindness Ploy

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Harry Sahle ?

Penciller(s): Harry Sahle

Inker(s): Harry Sahle

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: humorous, teen

Feature(s): Candy

Character(s): Candy O'Connor

Reprinting

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 7

Flatfoot the Fire Fighter

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): Al Stahl

Inker(s): Al Stahl

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: humorous, mystery

Feature(s): Flatfoot Burns

Character(s): Flatfoot Burns

Reprinting

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 6

Parrot Puggins

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Bill Woolfolk

Penciller(s): Lou Fine

Inker(s): Quality Staff

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): Martin DeMuth

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Feature(s): The Spirit

Character(s): The Spirit [Denny Colt]; Parrot Puggins

Reprinting

From Content Item: Flag

The Spirit #6/20/1943 [unnamed variant] published June 1943
was Parrot Puggins [Story on Interior Page(s) with IFC and Front Cover]

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 8

Super Breath

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: humorous

Feature(s): Burp the Twerp

Character(s): Burp the Twerp

Reprinting

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Strange Justice

Text Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Feature(s): Dick Mace

Reprinting

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 2

Notes: Dick Mace text story.

[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

First Line: These yere books the civil-y-yans sends us is swell!

Synopsis: Soldier Dewey, stationed on a Pacific island, reads a book about demanding a raise from one's employer and tries it out, but the Army isn't impressed.

Reprinting

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

[untitled]

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Paul Gustavson

Penciller(s): Paul Gustavson

Inker(s): Paul Gustavson

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): Paul Gustavson

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Feature(s): Human Bomb

Character(s): Human Bomb [Roy Lincoln]; Hustace Throckmorton

First Line: Like I've always said, Human Bomb, pirates aren't so tough -- they've had just too much publicity!

Reprinting

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 6

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.

Letters credit from Terry Gustafson, Paul Gustavson's son.

Disgrace

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): Pete Riss

Inker(s): ?

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Feature(s): Manhunter

Character(s): Manhunter [Dan Richards]

Reprinting

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 10