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Issue: Police Comics #55 Public Domain
Publication Date: June 1946
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Issues: #55 of 127 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagQuality Comics
Brand:
Indicia Publisher: Comic Magazines
On Sale Date: 04/17/1946
Volume: 1
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 and volume number are from the publication date and volume number reported to the U.S. Copyright Office found in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Volume 1, Part 2, Numbers 1 and 2 (Incorporating Part 2, Volume 41, 1946, New Series), Periodicals including Renewal Registrations, 1946-1947. Class B periodical. Copyright registration number B36463.
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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 from a Content Item in another Issue.
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Sleepy Eyes!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagPlastic Man Archives #5 published October 2003
as Cover - Police Comics #55 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Sleepy Eyes

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Grant Horden (introduction); Dr. Teen (introduction); Dr. Geen (introduction); Dr. Zeen (introduction); Sleepy Eyes (villain, introduction)
Synopsis: Sleepy Eyes has the ability to hypnotize people and put them to sleep. Unfortunately for him, it doesn't work against Woozy Winks because he has a natural sleepiness!
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagPlastic Man Archives #5 published October 2003
as Sleepy Eyes [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 15
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The Great Circus Mystery

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, mystery
Character(s): Flatfoot Burns
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
First Line: A glimpse of the two great minds of the Lincoln-Throckmorton Laboratories, Inc. ...
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Reprint Notes:  
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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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, military
Character(s): Dewey Drip; Ma Drip; Pappy Drip
First Line: Oh, happy day! On the way home at last!
Synopsis: Dewey has enough "points" to be discharged from the army. Pappy sits on a porcupine and gets "points" of his own.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Guessing Contest

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, teen
Character(s): Candy O'Connor
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
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Speed King

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Reprinting
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
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The Masked Pirate

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Masked Pirate [John Reeves] (villain)
Synopsis: The actor, John Reeves, takes his stage character, the Masked Pirate, to heart in a jilted lover's revenge plot, killing his co-star for real, on set.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 10
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The Stone Mountain Tunnel

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Character(s): Burp the Twerp
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Final appearance in Police Comics. Burp the Twerp becomes a floating feature appearing in various Quality comics. Burp the Twerp's next appearances are in Blackhawk (Quality Comics, 1944 series) #13 and The Barker (Quality Comics, 1946 Series) #2 (both Winter 1946).
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The Last Gang in Rotten Row

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagThe Spirit #8/15/1943 [unnamed variant] published August 1943
was The Last Gang in Rotten Row [Story on Interior Page(s) with IFC and Front Cover]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 8

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