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Comics About Cops

My dad is a retired cop, so they hold a special place for me. If a character or group has more than one title, I'm going to pick the one that most represents that character to me.

I'm not really looking for titles where a superhero is/was a cop in their secret identity. I'm looking more for titles where the cop is the star of the show. So no, we're not going to see Flash, Nightwing, Spectre or Question titles on this list. I love it that the characters were cops (however long or short the period) but those stories emphasize people who decided that being a cop wasn't enough and decided to put on a costume and work outside of the law. I'm looking for actual lawmen.

List items

  • Dick Tracy is by far one of my favorite cop comics. Chester Gould went to great lengths to keep current on crimefighting techniques. The Complete Chester Gould's Dick Tracy from IDW is more comprehensive (they *are* actually reprinting everything) but this book is the one I checked out from the library multiple times and read over and over again. ...And yes, I have a copy on my bookshelf now. (I have the first three volumes of the ICW series I mentioned too!)

  • "Fighting Crime In A Future Time!" The cartoon this came from was strictly kiddie-fare, and the comic wasn't much better, but I love the idea of this. This is as close as you can come to marrying the cop and the superhero, and have them still be cops. I *would* like to see a more serious take on these characters though.

  • Okay, this is actually a complete marriage of cop and superhero. Bright was actually a "Superman" type who worked as a policeman. This plays directly off of Superman btw, who is deputized with official police powers by the president of the United States.

  • Woohoo! An ongoing series about a hero who's a cop! Granted, this guy gets a little more lattitude, because of the creeps he goes up against, but Larsen does a great job of keeping it within reasonable boundaries. I should say *did* a great job. After one too many mind-controlled killing rampages, Dragon is sent to jail, depowered, and now his son is the star of the book. Still, if you're not reading this book, you should be.

  • Two things disappointed me about this series: 1) The first issue cover that uses cleavage to sell the issue, and 2) that the series didn't last longer. This was a great representation of cops.

  • This did not carry over into her own series, and it's again attempting to use sex to sell a cop as the lead, but it's nice that they tried.

  • To my mind, this is not the best representation of cops, but again, it's nice that they tried.
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