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Issue: Police Comics #55

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Publication Date: June 1946

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Issues: #55 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: 10 (9 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 In2

2 Content Items
- Sleepy Eyes! [Illustration on Cover, Front]1
- Sleepy Eyes [Story on Interior Page(s)]1

reprinted 2 times as Content Items in other Issues.

Reprinted From1

1 Content Item
- The Last Gang in Rotten Row [Story on Interior Page(s)]1

reprinted from a Content Item in another Issue.

Images1

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Cover, Front

Original Artwork

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Title Page

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Content Items (10 total)

Sleepy Eyes!

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 #55 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Sleepy Eyes

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Joe Millard

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; Grant Horden (introduction); Dr. Teen (introduction); Dr. Geen (introduction); Dr. Zeen (introduction); Sleepy Eyes (villain, introduction)

Synopsis: Sleepy Eyes has the ability to hypnotize people and put them to sleep. Unfortunately for him, it doesn't work against Woozy Winks because he has a natural sleepiness!

Reprinting

In Content Item: Flag

Plastic Man Archives #5 published October 2003
as Sleepy Eyes [Story on Interior Page(s)]

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 15

The Great Circus Mystery

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]

First Line: A glimpse of the two great minds of the Lincoln-Throckmorton Laboratories, Inc. ...

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.

[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

First Line: Oh, happy day! On the way home at last!

Synopsis: Dewey has enough "points" to be discharged from the army. Pappy sits on a porcupine and gets "points" of his own.

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Guessing Contest

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

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 7

Speed King

Text Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: adventure

Feature(s): Dick Mace

Character(s): Dick Mace

Reprinting

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 2

The Masked Pirate

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): Joe Kubert

Inker(s): Joe Kubert

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Feature(s): Manhunter

Character(s): Manhunter [Dan Richards]; The Masked Pirate [John Reeves] (villain)

Synopsis: The actor, John Reeves, takes his stage character, the Masked Pirate, to heart in a jilted lover's revenge plot, killing his co-star for real, on set.

Reprinting

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 10

The Stone Mountain Tunnel

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

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Notes: Next appearance in BLACKHAWK #13.

The Last Gang in Rotten Row

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Will Eisner

Penciller(s): Will Eisner; Quality Staff

Inker(s): Quality staff

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Feature(s): The Spirit

Character(s): The Spirit [Denny Colt]

Reprinting

From Content Item: Flag

The Spirit #8/15/1943 [unnamed variant] published August 1943
was The Last Gang In Rotten Row [Story on Interior Page(s) with IFC and Front Cover]

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 8