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Issue: Police Comics #54

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Publication Date: May 1946

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Issues: #54 of 127 Issues

Title:

Variant: unnamed

Rating:

Publisher: Flag

Quality Comics

Brand:

Indicia Publisher: Comic Magazines

On Sale Date: (not set)

Volume:

Pages: 60

ISBN: none

UPC/EAN: none

Price: $0.10 USD

Indicia Frequency:

Content Items: 9 (8 stories, 1 cover)

Editor(s): George Brenner

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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
- Plastic Man Erases Crime [Illustration on Cover, Front]1
- The Thinking Machine [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
- Byron's Memoirs [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

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Assets0

Content Items (9 total)

Plastic Man Erases Crime

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]; Woozy Winks

Reprinting

In Content Item: Flag

Plastic Man Archives #5 published October 2003
as Cover - Police Comics #54 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

The Thinking Machine

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Jack Cole

Penciller(s): Andre LeBlanc

Inker(s): Andre LeBlanc

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): Jack Cole

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Feature(s): Plastic Man

Character(s): Plastic Man [Patrick "Eel" O'Brian]; Woozy Winks; Chief Branner; Professor Medew (introduction, death); The Thinker [Goofty Garlow] (villain, introduction)

Synopsis: A not so bright janitor is inspired by a thinking machine to kill it's creator and commit crimes.

Reprinting

In Content Item: Flag

Plastic Man Archives #5 published October 2003
as The Thinking Machine [Story on Interior Page(s)]

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 15

[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; Ma Drip; Pappy Drip; General

First Line: Oh, Paw! ... A lettuh fum Dewey!

Synopsis: Stationed in India, Dewey serves his general a cup of tea made with leaves his mother had sent him. The "tea" turns out to be catnip and it attracts tigers.

Reprinting

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

[untitled]

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]

First Line: A noted criminal trial ends...

Reprinting

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 10

The Clothing Robberies

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Al Stahl

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

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 6

[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): The Human Bomb

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

First Line: Snf! Snf! What's that, Hustace...a new soft drink?

Synopsis: Hustace, now an inventor, creates a perfume that makes men crazy for Honeybun, which is good in itself, because Hustace is now interested in another woman.

Reprinting

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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.

Haunted Theatre

Text Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Feature(s): Dick Mace

Reprinting

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 2

Notes: Dick Mace text story.

[untitled]

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Harry Sahle (signed)

Penciller(s): Harry Sahle (signed)

Inker(s): Harry Sahle (signed)

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: humorous, teen

Feature(s): Candy

Character(s): Candy O'Connor

First Line: Grab a five!...I've curbed th' jive!

Reprinting

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 7

Byron's Memoirs

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Manly Wade Wellman ?

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]

Reprinting

From Content Item: Flag

The Spirit #3/14/1943 [unnamed variant] published March 1943
was Byron's Memoirs [Story on Interior Page(s) with IFC and Front Cover]

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 8