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Issue: Police Comics #54 Public Domain
Publication Date: May 1946
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Issues: #54 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: 9 (8 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
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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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Plastic Man Erases Crime

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 #5 published October 2003
as Cover - Police Comics #54 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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The Thinking Machine

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 Medew (introduction, death); The Thinker [Goofty Garlow] (villain, introduction)
Synopsis: A not so bright janitor is inspired by a thinking machine to kill it's creator and commit crimes.
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In Content Item: FlagPlastic Man Archives #5 published October 2003
as The Thinking Machine [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 15
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, military
Character(s): Dewey Drip; Ma Drip; Pappy Drip; General
First Line: Oh, Paw! ... A lettuh fum Dewey!
Synopsis: Stationed in India, Dewey serves his general a cup of tea made with leaves his mother had sent him. The "tea" turns out to be catnip and it attracts tigers.
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Pages: 1
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Manhunter
Character(s): Manhunter [Dan Richards]
First Line: A noted criminal trial ends...
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Pages: 10
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The Clothing Robberies

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, mystery
Character(s): Flatfoot Burns
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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; Honeybun
First Line: Snf! Snf! What's that, Hustace...a new soft drink?
Synopsis: Hustace, now an inventor, creates a perfume that makes men crazy for Honeybun, which is good in itself, because Hustace is now interested in another woman.
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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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Haunted Theatre

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

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, teen
Character(s): Candy O'Connor
First Line: Grab a five!...I've curbed th' jive!
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Pages: 7
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Byron's Memoirs

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Spirit [Denny Colt]
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagThe Spirit #3/14/1943 [unnamed variant] published March 1943
was Byron's Memoirs [Story on Interior Page(s) with IFC and Front Cover]
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Pages: 8

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