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Issue: Police Comics #38

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Publication Date: January 1945

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Issues: #38 of 127 Issues

Title:

Variant: unnamed

Rating:

Publisher: Flag

Quality Comics

Brand: Quality Comic Group

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 In4

3 Content Items

reprinted 4 times as Content Items in other Issues.

Reprinted From1

1 Content Item
- Davy Jones's Locker [Story on Interior Page(s)]1

reprinted from a Content Item in another Issue.

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Cover, Front

Original Artwork

Digital Edition

Adult Image

Title Page

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Assets0

Content Items (10 total)

Wanted! Plastic Man Dead or Alive

Illustration on Cover, Front

Credits

Penciller(s): Jack Cole (signed)

Inker(s): Jack Cole (signed)

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 #3 published January 2001
as Cover - Police Comics #38 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]

In Content Item: Flag

Plastic Man Archives #3 published January 2001
as Backcover [Promotional Material (from Publisher) on Interior Page(s)]cover

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

One Million Dollars for Plastic Man's Death

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; Professor Zwerling (introduction); Rocky Goober (villain, introduction); Boss Skullman (villain, introduction)

Synopsis: Boss Skullman puts out a hit on Plastic Man and Professor Zwerling.

Reprinting

In Content Item: Flag

Plastic Man Archives #3 published January 2001
as One Million Dollars for Plastic Man's Death [Story on Interior Page(s)]

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 15

Notes: Phony suicide scene.

On the Air

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): Janice Valleau [as Ginger] (signed)

Inker(s): Janice Valleau [as Ginger] (signed)

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

First Line: A package just arrived from a costume company -- for you, Hustace!

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.

Hank Pinupo

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

Framed by Arno Roxx

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Joe Millard

Penciller(s): Pete Riss

Inker(s): ?

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Feature(s): Manhunter

Character(s): Manhunter [Dan Richards]; Thor

Reprinting

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 10

[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; Sergeant; Senator

First Line: Drip'll never make it this time!

Synopsis: Dewey shows up for inspection wearing just an overcoat over his boxer shorts. The sergeant orders Dewey to give his coat to a visiting lady senator.

Reprinting

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Tabu Island

Text Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Feature(s): Dick Mace

Character(s): Dick Mace

Reprinting

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 2

All in Pieces

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Jack Cole [as Ralph Johns] (signed)

Penciller(s): Jack Cole [as Ralph Johns] (signed)

Inker(s): Jack Cole [as Ralph Johns] (signed)

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): Jack Cole

Subject Matter

Genres: humorous

Feature(s): Burp the Twerp

Character(s): Burp the Twerp

Reprinting

In Content Item: Flag

The Toon Treasury of Classic Children's Comics #[nn] published September 2009
as [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Davy Jones's Locker

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: Flag

The Spirit #2/2/1941 [Philadelphia Record] published February 1941
was Davy Jones' Locker [Story on Interior Page(s) with IFC and Front Cover]

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 8