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Issue: Police Comics #38 Public Domain
Publication Date: January 1945
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Issues: #38 of 127 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagQuality Comics
Brand: Quality Comic GroupView Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: Comic Magazines
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: none
Pages: 60
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 10 (9 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
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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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Wanted! Plastic Man Dead or Alive

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: FlagPlastic Man Archives #3 published January 2001
as Cover - Police Comics #38 [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)]cover
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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One Million Dollars for Plastic Man's Death

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
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: FlagPlastic 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
Disclose Notes: Phony suicide scene.
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On the Air

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, mystery
Character(s): Flatfoot Burns
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Human Bomb [Roy Lincoln]; Hustace Throckmorton
First Line: A package just arrived from a costume company -- for you, Hustace!
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Disclose 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.
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Hank Pinupo

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, teen
Character(s): Candy O'Connor
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
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Framed by Arno Roxx

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Manhunter [Dan Richards]; Thor
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 10
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, military
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.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Tabu Island

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Dick Mace
Character(s): Dick Mace
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
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All in Pieces

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Character(s): Burp the Twerp
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagThe Toon Treasury of Classic Children's Comics #[nn] published September 2009
as By a Nose [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Davy Jones's Locker

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Spirit [Denny Colt]
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagThe Spirit #2/2/1941 [Philadelphia Record] published February 1941
was Davy Jones' Locker [Story on Interior Page(s) with IFC and Front Cover]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8

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