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Issue Details

Issue #4
Published Summer 1946
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 52
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)

12 page Plastic Man story "The Purple Viking"

Characters Plastic Man [Eel O'Brian]; Woozy Winks; George K Dinnit (first appearance); VILLAIN: The Purple Viking [Chuck Sutherland] (first appearance)
Synopsis When a lumberman is hit in the head by a tree, he believes he is a Viking.
Genre Superhero
Script Jack Cole
Pencils Bart Tumey
Inks Bart Tumey
Letters Jack Cole
Reprinted in PLASTIC MAN ARCHIVES (DC, 1998 series) #5 (September 2003)

11 page Plastic Man story "King Lughead, the First"

Characters Plastic Man [Eel O'Brian]; Woozy Winks; Chief Branner; VILLAIN: Lughead Sykes (first appearance)
Synopsis Lughead Sykes declares himself the king of Takahatchee.
Genre Superhero
Script Jack Cole
Pencils John Spranger
Inks John Spranger
Letters Jack Cole
Reprinted in PLASTIC MAN ARCHIVES (DC, 1998 series) #5 (September 2003)

8 page Woozy story "The Lollipop Caper"

Characters Woozy Winks; VILLAINS: The Terrible Trio (first appearance; die); Giant Neers (first appearance)
Synopsis Woozy tries to stop a man who is taking candy from a baby, although the baby is really Giant Neers.
Genre Superhero; Humor
Script Jack Cole
Pencils Bart Tumey
Inks Bart Tumey
Letters Jack Cole
Reprinted in PLASTIC MAN ARCHIVES (DC, 1998 series) #5 (September 2003)

2 page Plastic Man text story "Plas' to Meet You"

Characters Plastic Man [Eel O'Brian]; Woozy Winks; VILLAINS: Bugeye Clift (first appearance); Surprise Willen (first appearance)
Genre Superhero
Letters typeset
Reprinted in PLASTIC MAN ARCHIVES (DC, 1998 series) #5 (September 2003); in PLASTIC MAN 80-PAGE GIANT (DC, 2004 series) #1 (January 2004) [mistakenly listed in table of contents as "The Hand Behind" from Plastic Man (Quality, 1943 series) #3]

1 page Fuzzy story "Fuzzy"

Genre gag
Script Jack Cole
Pencils Jack Cole
Inks Jack Cole
Letters Jack Cole

14 page Plastic Man story "The Lobster"

Characters Plastic Man [Eel O'Brian]; Woozy Winks; Chief Branner; Mrs. Dana (first appearance); Mr. Dana (first appearance); VILLAIN: The Lobster [Mr. Dana] (first appearance)
Synopsis The Lobster pals pretend to be his parents and trick Woozy and Plas.
Genre Superhero
Script Jack Cole
Pencils Jack Cole
Inks Jack Cole
Letters Jack Cole
Notes V: The Lobster (I; Dana)
Reprinted in PLASTIC MAN ARCHIVES (DC, 1998 series) #5 (September 2003)