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Issue: Police Comics #48 Public Domain
Publication Date: November 1945
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Issues: #48 of 127 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagQuality Comics
Brand:
Indicia Publisher: Comic Magazines
On Sale Date: 09/14/1945
Volume: none
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 is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1945, New Series, Vol. 40, No. 4.
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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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reprinted from a Content Item in another Issue.
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City of the Future

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 #4 published January 2002
as Cover - Police Comics #48 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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City of the Future

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Plastic Man [Patrick "Eel" O'Brian]; Woozy Winks; Jasper Tipple (Woozy's friend, inventor, introduction); Big Beaver [Joe Grover] (villain, introduction); The Cutter (villain, introduction)
Synopsis: Some gangsters trick Jasper Tipple into building his city of the future, Futuria, for them, forcing Plastic Man to have to root out crime in that city. After that, Tipple vows to use the city as a teaching tool.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagPlastic Man Archives #4 published January 2002
as City of the Future [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 15
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Character(s): Ma Drip; Pappy Drip
First Line: Here comes the mail man!
Synopsis: Dewey's request for a photo of a pin-up girl is misunderstood by his hillbilly parents.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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The Catsup Bottle That Dripped Blood

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Manhunter [Dan Richards]
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 10
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Tiny Ned Toole

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Character(s): Burp the Twerp
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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The Cheerleader Tryouts

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): The Human Bomb [Roy Lincoln]
First Line: At the Lincoln and Throckmorton Laboratories...
Reprinting
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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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The Witch Burner

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Dick Mace
Reprinting
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: Dick Mace text story.
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Prominent Detective Enters Society

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, mystery
Character(s): Flatfoot Burns
Reprinting
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
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The Spirit Ain't Fair to Ebony

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Spirit [Denny Colt]
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagThe Spirit #5/30/1943 [unnamed variant] published May 1943
was The Spirit Ain't Fair to Ebony [Story on Interior Page(s) with IFC and Front Cover]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8

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