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Mr. Gregory

 
Mr. Gregory
 

Religion: not determined yet

Name: Mr. Gregory

Classification: supporting character supporting character  

Publisher(s): Quality

First Appearance: Police Comics #3 (Oct. 1941): "Pearls of Peril"

Creators: Robert M. Hyatt

Number of Appearances: 1

Allies: Dick Mace, James Lee Chong

Occupation: writer

Race: white

Gender: male

Note: visited Nauru while gathering material for a novel

Mr. Gregory is the narrator of the "Dick Mace" prose text story "Pearls of Peril."

Mr. Gregory was a writer who wrote detective fiction. While Mr. Gregory was traveling, gathering material for a novel, he met famed detective Dick Mace. He met Mace on the Island of Nauru. Mace was there trying to apprehend a gang of pearl thieves.

As Mr. Gregory relates in this story, his experiences in Nauru cost him the friendship of James Lee Chong, a "humanitarian extraordinary." When a boatload of thieving white sailors tried to steal Chong's latest batch of purchased pearls, Dick Mace ably helped defend Chong by organizing Nauru natives to fend off the sailors. Mr. Gregory tried to help, too, but what he did to "help" was to hide the pearls in a pickle barrel, where the vinegar in the barrel melted the pearls into a worthless glutinous mass. Chong was disgusted by what his friend Mr. Gregory did.

Fortunately, Mr. Gregory only hid - and destroyed - about 21% of the pearls Chong had just purchased. But Chong was still mad at Gregory.


This character is in the following story which has been indexed by this website:
Police Comics #3 (Oct. 1941): "Pearls of Peril"