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Issue: Police Comics #43 Public Domain
Publication Date: June 1945
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Issues: #43 of 127 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagQuality Comics
Brand:
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)
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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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reprinted 2 times as Content Items in other Issues.
Some/all of Issue reprinted as a Content Item in another Issue:
FlagPlastic Man Archives #4 published January 2002 as Backcover [Promotional Material (from Publisher) on Interior Page(s)] cover
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Plastic Man [Patrick "Eel" O'Brian]; Woozy Winks
First Line: Plastic Man finds the Arctic a pretty hot place!...
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagPlastic Man Archives #4 published January 2002
as Cover - Police Comics #43 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Arctic Circle Adventure

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Plastic Man [Patrick "Eel" O'Brian]; Woozy Winks; Chief Branner; Professor Stone (introduction); Iggy (villain, introduction); Dirty (villain, introduction); Noisy (villain, introduction)
Synopsis: Some hoodlums try to kill Professor Stone and get his radium mine. An eskimo wants Woozy for her mate.
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In Content Item: FlagPlastic Man Archives #4 published January 2002
as Arctic Circle Adventure [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 15
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Wings to Madness Starring Ronald Rogue

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, teen
Character(s): Candy O'Connor
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Human Bomb [Roy Lincoln]; The Shrimp (villain, introduction)
First Line: Another hot dog??
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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.

Letters credit from Terry Gustafson, Paul Gustavson's son.
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Shoplifters and Sodas

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Spirit [Denny Colt]
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagThe Spirit #8/9/1942 published August 1942
was Shoplifters and Sodas [Story on Interior Page(s) with IFC and Front Cover]
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Pages: 8
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, military
Character(s): Dewey Drip; General
First Line: Recognition, at last!!
Synopsis: Dewey's pinup picture gets stuck on the general's backside, causing the officer to lose a promotion.
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Pages: 1
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Bombers a-Weigh

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Dick Mace
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Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: Dick Mace text story.
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Stage 3, Lowser Productions

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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Super Soda Pop

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Character(s): Burp the Twerp
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Pages: 1
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Tramp Club Death

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

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