Police Comics #55 Rockford Pedigree (Quality, 1946) CGC NM 9.4 Off-white to white pages....

Auction amount: $720.00

Sold: Aug 19, 2018

Police Comics #55 Values

Publisher: Quality Comics, 1946

About Police Comics #55

Plastic Man, the Spirit, Human Bomb, and Manhunter appear. Last Burp the Twerp appearance in the title. Jack Cole cover and art. Paul Gustavson, Bill Eisner, and Lou Fine art.

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COVER DETAILS

Title: Sleepy Eyes!

Characters: Plastic Man [Patrick "Eel" O'Brian]; Woozy Winks

Pencils: Jack Cole

Inks: Jack Cole

STORY DETAILS

(9 Stories)

Title: Sleepy Eyes

Characters: Plastic Man [Patrick "Eel" O'Brian]; Woozy Winks; 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!

Pages: 15.000

Script: Joe Millard

Pencils: Jack Cole

Inks: Jack Cole

Letters: Jack Cole

Notes: Script credit from Martin O'Hearn and Rich Morrissey, via Error Report #2375: previously credited to Jack Cole.

Characters: The Human Bomb [Roy Lincoln]

Pages: 6.000

Script: Paul Gustavson

Pencils: Paul Gustavson

Inks: Paul Gustavson

Letters: Paul Gustavson

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.

Characters: Dewey Drip; Ma Drip; Pappy Drip

Synopsis: Dewey has enough "points" to be discharged from the army. Pappy sits on a porcupine and gets "points" of his own.

Pages: 1.000

Script: Bernard Dibble ?

Pencils: Bernard Dibble

Inks: Bernard Dibble

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

Title: The Masked Pirate

Characters: Manhunter [Dan Richards]; 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.

Pages: 10.000

Pencils: Joe Kubert

Inks: Joe Kubert

Notes: Art credits from Martin O'Hearn. Art formerly credited to John Spranger ?.

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CGC Census Report*

Grade	0.5	1.0	1.5	1.8	2.0	2.5	3.0	3.5	4.0	4.5	5.0	5.5	6.0	6.5	7.0	7.5	8.0	8.5	9.0	9.2	9.4	9.6	9.8	9.9	10.0	Total
Universal	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	2	0	1	1	1	0	0	0	9
Qualified	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Signature Series	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
Restored	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
Total	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	1	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	2	0	1	1	1	0	0	0	11

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