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Issue Details

Issue #18
Published April 1943
Frequency Monthly
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 68
Editing John Beardsley
Notes Copyright 1943 by Comic Magazines, Inc.

Cover Details

Characters Plastic Man [Eel O'Brian]; The Spirit
Genre superhero
Pencils Jack Cole
Inks Jack Cole
Reprinted in Plastic Man Archives (DC, 1998 series) #1 (December 1998)

13 page Plastic Man story "The Drafting of Plastic Man"

Characters Plastic Man [Eel O'Brian]; Woozy Winks; Captain Murphey [also known as Captain Murphy]; Professor Van Dyke (first appearance; dies); VILLAIN: Pogo Flinch (first appearance)
Synopsis Plas's home base named (Mammoth City); Plas gets drafted, but FDR has him join the FBI.
Genre superhero
Script Jack Cole
Pencils Jack Cole
Inks Jack Cole
Letters Jack Cole
Reprinted in Plastic Man Archives (DC, 1998 series) #1 (December 1998)

10 page Manhunter story "A Night of Murders"

Characters Manhunter [Dan Richards]
Genre superhero
Pencils Al Bryant?
Inks Al Bryant?

1 page Burp the Twerp story "Burp Gets a New Body"

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

7 page Destiny story "The Headless Man"

Characters Destiny; Frank N. Stein (the Headless Man; first appearance)
Genre detective; superhero
Pencils George Brenner
Inks George Brenner

1 page Dewey Drip story "Dewey Drip"

Genre gag
Script Joe Devlin
Pencils Joe Devlin
Inks Joe Devlin

7 page Spirit story "Gang Warfare"

Characters Spirit [Denny Colt]; VILLAIN: The Combination (first appearance); Mr. Gaunt (first appearance)
Genre Superhero
Script Will Eisner
Pencils Will Eisner
Inks Will Eisner
Reprinted from Spirit, The (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #9/22/1940

6 page Phantom Lady story "Golden Egg"

Characters Phantom Lady [Sandra Knight]; VILLAIN: Bunny Rabbit [Killer Dan] (first appearance; dies)
Genre superhero
Pencils Frank Borth
Inks Frank Borth

8 page Chic Carter story "The Man From Nowhere"

Characters Chic Carter; VILLAIN: Killer Kane (first appearance; dies)
Genre detective
Script Vernon Henkel
Pencils Vernon Henkel
Inks Vernon Henkel
Notes last appearance

2 page Dick Mace text story "No Firing Squad For Juan"

Characters Dick Mace
Genre Detective
Script Robert Hyatt ?
Letters typeset

1 page Super Snooper story "Super Snooper"

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

8 page Human Bomb story "The Three Mosquitoes"

Characters Human Bomb [Roy Lincoln]; VILLAINS: The Three Mosquitoes (first appearance; Baron and two others)
Genre superhero
Script Paul Gustavson
Pencils Paul Gustavson
Inks Paul Gustavson