Police Comics #3 (Oct. 1941):
“Pearls of Peril”
by Robert M. Hyatt

Police Comics #3

Title: “Pearls of Peril”

Feature: Dick Mace

Medium: prose text story

Cover date: Oct. 1941

Publisher:
Written by: Robert M. 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
sailors (details)  A yacht full of British-based sailors tried to rob James Lee Chong of his lastest pearl purchase (worth about $71,000). Dick Mace organized Nauru natives to defend Chong and drive the sailors away.		[occupation]
James Lee Chong	ancestor veneration	Asian [pearl trader; extraordinary humanitarian]		1
Angus Halliday		[sold the pearls he harvested to James Lee Chong]		1
Mr. Gregory		[visited Nauru while gathering material for a novel]		1
Bangus		Polynesian [gang of Nauru natives]		1
unnamed leader of pearl theft gang		[led yacht-full of sailors/pearl thieves; Oxford accent]		1
Mickey		[member of notorious gang of pearl thieves]		1
Pudge		[member of notorious gang of pearl thieves]		1
Native Americans (mentioned, pg. 50)  Quote: "A score of huge blacks came toward the hotel. A few had rifles; the others carried spears and long bows. They were painted up like a pack of Indians on the war path."		[race/ethnicity]
pearlers (mentioned, pg. 50)  Quote: "Halliday, Mace told me, was a pearler who sold his collection once a year to Chong, because Chong paid the best price in the islands."		[occupation]		1
unnamed wife (mentioned, pg. 51)  We went inside just as the big man was peeling off a sheaf of greenbacks in payment of a beautiful pearl. "My wife will go crazy about this one," he said, in a modulated Oxford accent. "May bring her ashore and let her look at those two matched ones you have."		[wife of the leader of notorious pearl theft gang]		1
Gilbert Islanders (mentioned, pg. 50)  "Bangus!" gasped the dying man. "Many war canoes... other side island... tell Massa Chong!" He died then... Dick stood, with an automatic ready. "Seems like it's an attack by Gilbert Islanders," he explained. "They're natural enemies, but this hasn't happened in a half century."	Polynesian traditional religion	Polynesian [traditional enemies of the Nauruos]		1

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