Police Commissioner Bailey

Police Commissioner Bailey is a law-enforcement official appearing in the earliest days of DC's predecessor publications, operating in a city shared with supernatural and criminal figures like Dr. Occult and the Purple Tiger, representing civic authority in 1936's eclectic anthology storytelling.

A figure of law and order from the very dawn of American comics, Police Commissioner Bailey made his mark in 1936 — deep in the Platinum Age, when DC's predecessor was still finding its footing and More Fun Comics was one of the earliest anthology titles shaping what the medium could be. Bailey patrols a world populated by intriguing company: the supernatural Dr. Occult, the menacing Purple Tiger, and a cast of investigators and adventurers that speaks to just how eclectic those early pages were. With appearances across both More Fun Comics and Federal Men Comics and a key issue to his name, this commissioner is a small but genuine piece of comics history — the kind of character that reminds collectors how rich and strange the very roots of DC truly were.