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| Date | | Number: 55 | Lang: English (en) | |||
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| Name | Police Comics 55 | Published |
| Publication | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 60 | Frequency: monthly |
| 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. |
| Cover | Sleepy Eyes! / 1 page |
| Genre | Superhero |
| Pencils | Jack Cole |
| Inks | Jack Cole |
| Comic Story | Sleepy Eyes / Plastic Man (15 pages) |
| 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! |
| Genre | Superhero |
| Characters | Grant Horden (introduction); Dr. Teen (introduction); Dr. Geen (introduction); Dr. Zeen (introduction); Sleepy Eyes (villain, introduction) |
| Script | Joe Millard (see notes) |
| Pencils | Jack Cole |
| Inks | Jack Cole |
| Letters | Jack Cole |
| Notes | Script credit was previously credited to Jack Cole. |
| Comic Story | The Great Circus Mystery / Flatfoot Burns (6 pages) |
| Genre | Humor; Detective-mystery |
| Characters | Flatfoot Burns |
| Script | Al Stahl |
| Pencils | Al Stahl |
| Inks | Al Stahl |
| Story | The Human Bomb (6 pages) |
| Genre | Superhero |
| Script | Paul Gustavson (see notes) |
| Pencils | Paul Gustavson (see notes) |
| Inks | Paul Gustavson (see notes) |
| Letters | Paul Gustavson |
| First Line | A glimpse of the two great minds of the Lincoln-Throckmorton Laboratories, Inc. ... |
| 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. |
| Story | Dewey Drip (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Dewey has enough "points" to be discharged from the army. Pappy sits on a porcupine and gets "points" of his own. |
| Genre | Humor; Military |
| Characters | Dewey Drip; Ma Drip; Pappy Drip |
| Script | Bernard Dibble ? |
| Pencils | Bernard Dibble |
| Inks | Bernard Dibble |
| First Line | Oh, happy day! On the way home at last! |
| Notes | "Soldiers were given one point for each month of military service and one additional point was given for each month of overseas service. Each battle star or decoration earned a soldier 5 points. Soldiers were awarded 12 points per dependent child up to a maximum of three children. A total of 85 points was needed for eligibility. Soldiers who had earned that number of points were to be demobilized as soon as transport back to the United States was available." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demobilization_of_United_States_armed_forces_after_World_War_II |
| Comic Story | Guessing Contest / Candy (7 pages) |
| Genre | Humor; Teen |
| Characters | Candy O'Connor |
| Script | Harry Sahle ? |
| Pencils | Harry Sahle |
| Inks | Harry Sahle |
| Text Story | Speed King / Dick Mace (2 pages) |
| Letters | typeset |
| Genre | Adventure |
| Comic Story | The Masked Pirate / Manhunter (10 pages) |
| 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. |
| Genre | Superhero |
| Characters | The Masked Pirate [John Reeves] (villain) |
| Pencils | Joe Kubert (see notes) |
| Inks | Joe Kubert (see notes) |
| Notes | Art formerly credited to John Spranger ?. |
| Comic Story | The Stone Mountain Tunnel / Burp the Twerp (1 page) |
| Genre | Humor |
| Characters | Burp the Twerp |
| Script | Jack Cole |
| Pencils | Jack Cole |
| Inks | Jack Cole |
| Letters | Jack Cole |
| 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). |
| Comic Story | The Last Gang in Rotten Row / The Spirit (8 pages) |
| Genre | Superhero |
| Script | Will Eisner |
| Pencils | Will Eisner Quality Staff |
| Inks | Quality Staff |
| Colors | Quality Staff |
| Letters | Martin deMuth |
| The data in the additional content section is courtesy of the Grand Comics Database under a Creative Commons Attribution License. More details about this comic may be available in their page here | |
