Issue Details

Issue	#13
Published	November 1942
Frequency	Monthly
Cover Price	0.10 USD
Pages	68
Editing	John Beardsley
Notes	Copyright 1942 by Comic Magazines, Inc.

Cover Details

Characters	Plastic Man [Eel O'Brian]
Genre	superhero
Pencils	Reed Crandall
Inks	Reed Crandall
Reprinted	in Plastic Man Archives (DC, 1998 series) #1 (December 1998)

9 page Plastic Man story "Presenting the Man Who Can't Be Harmed"

Characters	Plastic Man [Eel O'Brian]; Woozy Winks (first appearance; origin); Zambi ze Soothzayer (first appearance); Homer Twitchel (first appearance); Captain Murphey [also known as Captain Murphy]; VILLAIN: Mr. Mire (first appearance)
Synopsis	The origin of Woozy Winks.
Genre	superhero
Script	Jack Cole
Pencils	Jack Cole
Inks	Jack Cole
Letters	Jack Cole
Reprinted	in DC Special (DC, 1968 series) #15 (November-December 1971); in Smithsonian Book of Comic-Book Comics, A (Smithsonian Institution / Harry N Abrams, 1981 series) #nn; in Plastic Man 80-Page Giant (DC, 2004 series) #1; in Plastic Man Archives (DC, 1998 series) #1

1 page Dewey Drip story "Dewey Drip"

Genre	gag
Script	Joe Devlin
Pencils	Joe Devlin
Inks	Joe Devlin

5 page #711 story "The Man Who Killed Deek Dakin"

Genre	superhero
Script	George Brenner
Pencils	George Brenner
Inks	George Brenner

6 page Chic Carter story "The Rat Trap"

Genre	detective
Script	Vernon Henkel
Pencils	Vernon Henkel
Inks	Vernon Henkel

5 page Firebrand story "The Sinister Peanut Vendor"

Characters	Firebrand [Rod Reilly]
Genre	superhero
Script	S. M. Iger
Pencils	Alex Blum
Inks	Alex Blum

5 page Steele Kerrigan story "Machine Gun Clarkson"

Genre	detective
Pencils	Al Bryant
Inks	Al Bryant
Notes	last appearance

1 page Burp the Twerp story "The Alaskan Caper"

Characters	Burp the Twerp
Genre	gag
Script	Jack Cole
Pencils	Jack Cole [Ralph Johns]
Inks	Jack Cole
Letters	Jack Cole

7 page Spirit story "Johnny Marston"

Characters	Spirit [Denny Colt]
Genre	Superhero
Script	Will Eisner
Pencils	Will Eisner
Inks	Will Eisner
Colors	Joe Kubert
Letters	Sam Rosen
Reprinted	from Spirit, The (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #6/30/1940

1 page Super Snooper story "Super Snooper"

Genre	humor
Script	Gill Fox
Pencils	Gill Fox
Inks	Gill Fox
Letters	Gill Fox ?

5 page Phantom Lady story "The Phony Phantom Lady"

Characters	Phantom Lady [Sandra Knight]
Genre	superhero
Pencils	Arthur Peddy
Inks	Arthur Peddy

6 page Human Bomb story "The Living Dead of Skull Valley"

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

1 page Dick Mace text story "Dark Bayou"

Characters	Dick Mace
Genre	Detective
Script	Robert Hyatt ?
Letters	typeset

5 page Mouthpiece story "The Human Bomber"

Genre	superhero; detective
Script	Fred Guardineer
Pencils	Fred Guardineer
Inks	Fred Guardineer
Notes	last appearance

6 page Manhunter story "The Theater Murder"

Characters	Manhunter [Dan Richards]
Genre	superhero
Pencils	Alex Kotzky
Inks	Alex Kotzky