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Issue: Police Comics #50 Public Domain
Publication Date: January 1946
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Issues: #50 of 127 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagQuality Comics
Brand:
Indicia Publisher: Comic Magazines
On Sale Date: 11/14/1945
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 indicia is misprinted for this issue as #49 but the publish month of January 1946 is correct, while the real #49 has a date of December 1945. 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 #5 published October 2003 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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[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 protects crookdom?
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagPlastic Man Archives #5 published October 2003
as Cover - Police Comics #50 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Plastic Man Protects Crookdom?

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Plastic Man [Patrick "Eel" O'Brian]; Woozy Winks; Officer Murphy; Roget the Astrologer (introduction, death); Boss Doaker (villain, introduction); The Cannon (villain, introduction); Paulsen (villain, introduction)
Synopsis: Some gangsters kill Roget the fortune teller, who makes one final prediction before he dies.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagPlastic Man Archives #5 published October 2003
as Plastic Man Protects Crookdom? [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 15
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The Kindness Ploy

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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Flatfoot the Fire Fighter

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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Parrot Puggins

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Spirit [Denny Colt]; Parrot Puggins
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagThe Spirit #6/20/1943 [unnamed variant] published June 1943
was Parrot Puggins [Story on Interior Page(s) with IFC and Front Cover]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
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Super Breath

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Character(s): Burp the Twerp
Reprinting
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Strange Justice

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Dick Mace
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: Dick Mace text story.
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, military
Character(s): Dewey Drip
First Line: These yere books the civil-y-yans sends us is swell!
Synopsis: Soldier Dewey, stationed on a Pacific island, reads a book about demanding a raise from one's employer and tries it out, but the Army isn't impressed.
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Pages: 1
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Human Bomb [Roy Lincoln]; Hustace Throckmorton
First Line: Like I've always said, Human Bomb, pirates aren't so tough -- they've had just too much publicity!
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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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Disgrace

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
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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