Police Comics #20 Rockford Pedigree (Quality, 1943) CGC NM 9.4 Off-white to white pages....

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Police Comics #20 Values

Publisher: Quality Comics, 1943

About Police Comics #20

Jack Cole cover and art. Cole appears as a character in the Plastic Man story. Raven crossover in the Phantom Lady story.

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COVER DETAILS

Characters: Plastic Man [Patrick "Eel" O'Brian]; The Spirit [Denny Colt] (inset)

Pencils: Jack Cole (signed)

Inks: Jack Cole (signed)

STORY DETAILS

(11 Stories)

Title: Woozy Winks Detective Agency

Characters: Plastic Man [Patrick "Eel" O'Brian]; Woozy Winks; Jack Cole; "Busy" Arnold; Abba (villain, introduction); Dabba (villain, introduction)

Synopsis: Cole writes himself into the story as a stuttering dweeb: a dream tale in which the heroes are knocked out by an explosion. Then Woozy instructs Cole to draw the faces of crooks Abba and Dabba for a "wanted" poster while Plastic Man dreams of Woozy Winks and Jack Cole teaming up to stop the two villains. Cole's un-named and obscured publisher frees him from the crooks.

Pages: 15.000

Script: Jack Cole

Pencils: Jack Cole

Inks: Jack Cole

Letters: Jack Cole

Title: The Case of the Kidnapped Corpse

Characters: Manhunter [Dan Richards]; Thor; Sam Gromont; Ben Bloom; Trigger Ike; Mr. Black; Louie

Synopsis: When a jeweler on his beat is murdered, Richards is suspended from his job. Eventually, Manhunter solves the crime and Richard's suspension is commuted.

Pages: 10.000

Pencils: Ruben Moreira ?

Inks: Ruben Moreira ?

Title: Flatfoot's Substitute

Characters: Zeke McCoy; Plastic Man (on comic); Flatfoot Burns; "Spooks" Socrates; Zebediah

Synopsis: Zeke McCoy has got the latest issue of Police Comics and is reading the Flatfoot Burns story when Flatfoot lands unconscious at Zeke's feet and Zeke takes on Flatfoot's identity to solve the story.

Pages: 6.000

Script: Al Stahl

Pencils: Al Stahl

Inks: Al Stahl

Title: Ogre Goran

Characters: The Spirit [Denny Colt]; Ogre Goran; Mary Cowan; Mr. Cowan; Ebony; Olga Goran

Synopsis: Ogre Goran escapes from prison and goes after the woman he planned to marry.

Pages: 7.000

Script: Will Eisner

Pencils: Will Eisner

Inks: Will Eisner

Letters: Sam Rosen

Title: Enter: The Raven

Characters: Phantom Lady [Sandra Knight]; Senator Harold H. Knight; The Raven [Tony Grey]; The Boss (villain); Spike (villain)

Synopsis: After three attempts being made on Senator Knight's life, Phantom Lady decides to find out, once and for all, who is behind these attempts. Having been told that her Dad is being held captive on the docks, she soon confronts the mysterious boss behind the kidnapping and that this man also holds The Raven captive.

Pages: 6.000

Pencils: Frank Borth [as Frank M. Borth] (signed)

Inks: Frank Borth [as Frank M. Borth] (signed)

Notes: Story continues from Feature Comics #69 (July, 1943). Phantom Lady wears a domino mask. Later swiped for the Wing Meets Nitro story in Joke Comics #17 (Bell Features).

Title: The Three-Man "Perfect" Crime

Characters: Destiny; Will Parker; Frank Parker; Ted Parker; Ronny Wakefield; Charles

Synopsis: The Parker Brothers are bored with all the war restrictions, so they decide to commit the perfect crime.

Pages: 7.000

Pencils: Jack Keller ?

Inks: Jack Keller ?

Title: Burp's One Weakness

Characters: Burp the Twerp

Synopsis: Crooks try to find Burp's weakness so they can rob the bank.

Pages: 1.000

Script: Jack Cole

Pencils: Jack Cole

Inks: Jack Cole

Letters: Jack Cole

Notes: Burp has his old body in this story.

Characters: Captain Larson; The Human Bomb [Roy Lincoln]

Synopsis: The captain of a ferry decides to take the boat out into the Pacific for a change.

Pages: 8.000

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.

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CGC Census Report*

Grade	NG	PG	CVR	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	0	0	1	1	1	3	0	4	1	1	1	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	15
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	0	0	0
Signature Series	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	0	0	0
CGCxJSA	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	0	0	0
Restored	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
Total	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	1	3	0	4	1	1	2	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	16

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