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Issue Details

Issue #57
Published August 1946
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 60
Editing George Brenner

Cover Details

Characters Plastic Man [Eel O'Brian]; Woozy Winks
Genre Superhero
Pencils Jack Cole
Inks Jack Cole
Reprinted in PLASTIC MAN ARCHIVES (DC, 1998 series) #5 (September 2003)

15 page Plastic Man story "Mars--Keep Away"

Characters Plastic Man [Eel O'Brian]; Woozy Winks; Chief Branner; Mr. Misfit (a Martian; first appearance); VILLAINS: Prof. MacGhoul (first appearance); Squeaker
Synopsis A professor tries to take a rocket ship to Mars so he can conquer the planet.
Genre Superhero
Script Jack Cole
Pencils Jack Cole
Inks John Spranger
Letters Jack Cole
Reprinted in PLASTIC MAN ARCHIVES (DC, 1998 series) #5 (September 2003)

6 page Flatfoot Burns story "The Egyptian Museum"

Characters Flatfoot Burns
Genre humor; detective
Script Al Stahl
Pencils Al Stahl
Inks Al Stahl

6 page Human Bomb story "The Televised Murder"

Characters Human Bomb [Roy Lincoln]
Genre superhero
Script Paul Gustavson
Pencils Paul Gustavson
Inks Paul Gustavson

7 page Candy story "Candlewood Camp For Girls"

Characters Candy O'Connor
Genre Teen; Humor
Script Harry Sahle
Pencils Harry Sahle
Inks Harry Sahle

1 page Dewey Drip story "Dewey Drip"

Genre gag
Script Joe Devlin
Pencils Joe Devlin
Inks Joe Devlin

10 page Manhunter story "Who Bombed Mr. Tarviss?"

Characters Manhunter [Dan Richards]
Genre superhero

2 page Dick Mace text story "Is This Murder?"

Letters typeset
Notes Dick Mace text story.

2 page Specks story "The Butcher Strikes"

Genre Humor
Script Michael Senich
Pencils Michael Senich
Inks Michael Senich

7 page Spirit story "Jackie Boy"

Characters Spirit [Denny Colt]
Genre Superhero
Script Bill Woolfolk
Pencils Lou Fine
Inks Lou Fine; Quality staff
Letters Martin DeMuth
Reprinted from Spirit, The (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #9/10/1944