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Issue: Police Comics #34 Public Domain
Publication Date: September 1944
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Issues: #34 of 127 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagQuality Comics
Brand: Quality Comic GroupView Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: Comic Magazines
On Sale Date: 07/14/1944
Volume: 1
Pages: 60
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 10 (9 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: The on-sale date and volume number are from the publication date and volume number reported to the U.S. Copyright Office found in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1944, New Series, Volume 39, Number 2. Class B periodical. Copyright registration number B 638499.
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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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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
First Line: Aw, Plastic Man, lemme out!
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagPlastic Man Archives #3 published January 2001
as Cover - Police Comics #34 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagPlastic Man Archives #3 published January 2001
as Backcover [Promotional Material (from Publisher) on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Chief Branner; Serena Sloop (introduction); Micky (villain, introduction); Chopper (villain, introduction); Loopy Louie (villain, introduction); Deadly Dean (villain, introduction)
First Line: If you think Plastic Man is a ring-tailed whiz when it comes to slugging it out with the world's worst criminals --
Synopsis: An old lady tries to prevent cruelty to criminals.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagPlastic Man Archives #3 published January 2001
as Serena Sloop's Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Criminals [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 15
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Character(s): Sis Wiggins; Ma Drip; Pappy Drip; Widdy; Dewey Drip
First Line: Here comes Sis Wiggins totin' a pile o' vittles!
Synopsis: Ma and Pappy Drip get a stack of food in gratitude for their son Dewey's military service. Learning a widow has four sons who were wounded in the war, Ma totes the food to her. She meets the woman's sons: all elderly U.S. Civil War veterans.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Suicide Sanitarium

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Reprinting
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 10
Disclose Notes: Story contains line, "We'll let John Jones be Manhunter!"
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Character(s): Burp the Twerp
First Line: I hope they're bitin'!
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Wanted Dead or Alive

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagThe Spirit #8/3/1941 [Washington DC Sunday Star] published August 1941
was Wanted Dead or Alive--the Spirit [Story on Interior Page(s) with IFC and Front Cover]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
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Balloons of Death

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Reprinting
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: Dick Mace text story.
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The Blaggard Brothers' Animal Circus

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, mystery
Character(s): Flatfoot Burns
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
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The Treasure of Prof. Dorn

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: mystery, superhero
Character(s): Destiny
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? (see notes)
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Robber Baron [Galdo] (villain, introduction)
First Line: In the private museum of a wealthy collector...
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: The Quality Companion verifies that Gustavson wrote this feature through Police #22, then picked up again with #37. The intervening writer is unknown.

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