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Issue: Police Comics #44

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Publication Date: July 1945

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Issues: #44 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: 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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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
- There's No Fool Like an Old Fool! [Illustration on Cover, Front]1
- [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]1

reprinted 2 times as Content Items in other Issues.

Reprinted From1

1 Content Item
- Three Wishes [Story on Interior Page(s)]1

reprinted from a Content Item in another Issue.

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Cover, Front

Original Artwork

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Adult Image

Title Page

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Content Items (10 total)

There's No Fool Like an Old Fool!

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: Flag

Plastic Man Archives #4 published January 2002
as Cover - Police Comics #44 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

[untitled]

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Colorist(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Character(s): Plastic Man [Patrick "Eel" O'Brian]; Woozy Winks; R. Wist (introduction); Augustus Diffle (introduction, death); T. Wellington Pike [aka Dandy Ned] (villain, introduction); Mrs. Diffle (villain, introduction)

First Line: Girls! Boys!...If you don't stop, I'll get Plastic Man after you!

Synopsis: Woozy is blamed for a murder in an old folks home.

Reprinting

In Content Item: Flag

Plastic Man Archives #4 published January 2002
as Murder at the Home for the Aged [Story on Interior Page(s)]

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 15

[untitled]

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: humorous, military

Character(s): Dewey Drip; Sergeant; Ma Drip; Pappy Drip

First Line: Thet sar-jint is still pickin' on our Dewey!

Synopsis: Ma makes a voodoo doll of Dewey's sergeant and sticks a pin in its behind. Somewhere in the Pacific theatre of war, Dewey accidentally pokes his sergeant with his bayonet.

Reprinting

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Notes: According to the Who's Who, Devlin did not write this strip. Bernard Dibble took over as artist for this strip in 1943 from John Devlin.

The Hunt For Trigger Swain

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Inker(s): ?

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Character(s): Manhunter [Dan Richards]; Thor; Trigger Swain (villain); Fluff; Inspector Casty; Richards

First Line: The most dangerous game ever hunted ... man!

Synopsis: Grisly manhunt for a desperate murderer.

Reprinting

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 10

[untitled]

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Colorist(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: humorous

Character(s): Burp the Twerp

First Line: In a shady dive...

Reprinting

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Bazaar Tonite

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: humorous, teen

Character(s): Candy O'Connor; Ted Dawson

Reprinting

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 7

[untitled]

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Colorist(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Character(s): The Human Bomb [Roy Lincoln]; Hustace Throckmorton

First Line: At the experimental laboratory of Lincoln and Throckmorton, Inc.

Synopsis: The Human Bomb and Hustace face an inventor who has created a sea serpent that launches cannonballs.

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.

Backfire

Text Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Feature(s): Dick Mace

Character(s): Dick Mace; Miss Byrd; Miss Carruthers; Jason Coler

Reprinting

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 2

Notes: Dick Mace text story.

The Whale Tale

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: humorous, mystery

Character(s): Flatfoot Burns

First Line: Why must you be so stubborn?

Reprinting

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 6

Three Wishes

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Colorist(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Character(s): The Spirit [Denny Colt]; Ebony White; Aladdin

First Line: Once upon a time ... in a place called Central City...

Reprinting

From Content Item: Flag

The Spirit #7/11/1943 [unnamed variant] published July 1943
was Three Wishes [Story on Interior Page(s) with IFC and Front Cover]

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 8