Police Comics #49 Plastic Man, Spirit, Flatfoot Burns, Manhunter, The Human Bomb
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Description
Police Comics #49
December 1945
Plastic Man, Spirit, Flatfoot Burns, Manhunter, The Human Bomb
Condition: Good (cover misalligned, one staple loose from cover, dirty, but feeling glossy)
Guide Price: $36
Starting Price: $12
· 1. [Thelma Twittle, Super-Charmer] Plastic Man by Jack Cole
· 2. [The Baby Giant] Flatfoot Burns by Al Stahl
· 3. [The Dress Shop Debacle] The Human Bomb by Paul Gustavson
· 4. [no title indexed] Dewey Drip by Barnard Dibble
· 5. [The Fizz Fountain Scavenger Hunt] Candy by Harry Sahle
· 6. [The Archer Who Had No Bow] Manhunter by Pete Riss
· 7. Dare-Devil Dantry Dick Mace text story
· 8. [The Lighthouse] Burp the Twerp by Jack Cole
· 9. [Cloak and Coffin] The Spirit by Robin King (December 26th, 1943)
I had no room in the banner, but the Candy story should be noted as well.
Due to changing collecting habits (I'm more into newspaper comics now) I am selling all of my forties and fifties comic books. After having sold my Timely/Atlas and Prize comics I have come to my collection of early Quality and DC comics. Not nearly as extensive, but some of them are just as rare.
Police Comics was the flagship title of Quality. Not only did it reprint The Spirit, it also had longrunning series such as Manhunter and The PHantom Lady. Later regulars include The Human Bomb, Flatfoor Burns and Honeydew. Plastic Man was Jack Cole's most famous creation and was in every issue, usually on the cover as well. DC started reprinting the Plastic Man material, but stopped before reaching the end. Some of those later books are in this collection. Despite the fact that Cole had to get stories done by other artists such as Alex Kotsky and Jack Sparling, he only got better and better and in the last few issues he was simply amazing.
Since most of these books are 52 to 48 pages, I can fit only three of them into a $10 envelope and seven in a $20 box (unless I take out the individual backing, in which case I can make it eight). As a buyer I was always annoyed when people from the US overpriced (in my view), so I am packing neatly but tightly. If you want to define your own treatment, please ask for it. Otherwise I will use my own judgement to ship safe and cheaply. Nothing more to say, except: visit my blog The Fabulous Fifties (https://allthingsger.blogspot.nl/) to see the best of that forgotten decade!
Oh and don't believe anything ebay sends you. E-mail me for questions.