Police Comics #2 (Sep. 1941):
“Hollywood Stickup”
by Robert Hyatt

Police Comics #2

Title: “Hollywood Stickup”

Feature: Dick Mace

Medium: prose text story

Cover date: Sep. 1941

Publisher:
Written by: Robert Hyatt

Number of Pages: 2

13 characters in this story:

Character (Click links for info about character and his/her religious practice, affiliation, etc.)	Religious Affiliation	Team(s) [Notes]	Pub.	# app.
Dick Mace (lead character)		[has pilot's license; featured in prose text stories]		63
Blackie Dolan		[tried to rob California Bank, posing as film production crew]		1
bank robbers (details)  A whole crew of bank robbers was recruited by Blackie Dolan and Mike Danovitch to pose as actors and a film crew filming a bank robbery scene at a real bank, in order to try to rob it.		[occupation]	DePatie-Freleng Enterprises , etc.	1
police (details)  Police were busy keeping crowds from mobbing actors at bank robbery scene, and also apprehended the actors, who turned out to be real bank robbers.		[generic listing]		28
LAPD (details)  Police were busy keeping crowds from mobbing actors at bank robbery scene, and also apprehended the actors, who turned out to be real bank robbers.		[police department]		24
actors (details)  Blackie Dolan observed various unnamed actors and actresses filming a bank robbery scene at a Bank of America location in Hollywood.		[occupation]
actresses (details)  Blackie Dolan observed various unnamed actors and actresses filming a bank robbery scene at a Bank of America location in Hollywood.		[occupation]
bank tellers (details)  Various unnamed real bank tellers working at Bank of America (where a bank robbery scene was filmed) and California Bank, which robbers tried to rob posing as actors filming a scene.		[occupation]
Mike Danovitch		[the slickest con man this side of Manhattan]		1
Bank of America (details)  At a Bank of America in Hollywood (on the corner of Bronson and Melrose Avenues), recently released convict Blackie Dolan watched as a large film production crew filmed a fake bank robbery.		[company]		1
California Bank		[company]		1
John Kelley		[pres. of bank Blackie Dolan tried to rob posing as film crew]		1
Humphrey Bogart (mentioned, pg. 50)  Outside the bank, police had their hands full keeping the crowd of curious from mobbing the movie crew; The star arrived in a big sedan. When he came into the bank. Dick laughed. The chap was certainly made up to look like a tough. "He's supposed to be a Humphrey Bogart type, you know," said Kelley. "The tough killer, and all that."	Episcopalian	[actor]	Vitaphone Corporation	156

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