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Issue Details

Issue #19
Published May 1943
Frequency Monthly
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 68
Editing John Beardsley
Notes Copyright 1943 by Comic Magazines.

Cover Details

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

15 page Plastic Man story "The Forest of Fear"

Characters Plastic Man [Eel O'Brian; also as Mr. Gridley] (origin retold); Woozy Winks; Mr. Hadley (first appearance); Mr. Procter (dies); Mr. Ratter (first appearance); Sparkie (first appearance; dies); Tony
Synopsis Plas investigates the disappearance of some lumbermen.
Genre superhero
Script Jack Cole
Pencils Jack Cole
Inks Jack Cole
Letters Jack Cole
Notes Last Eel O'Brian app.; Plas is revealed to be an orphan.
Reprinted in Plastic Man Archives (DC, 1998 series) #1 (December 1998)

1 page Dewey Drip story "Dewey Drip"

Genre gag
Script Joe Devlin
Pencils Joe Devlin
Inks Joe Devlin

7 page Spirit story "The Haunted House"

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) #12/8/1940

1 page Burp the Twerp story "The Maple Syrup Volcano"

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

7 page Destiny story "The Sherlock Doyle Story"

Characters Destiny
Genre detective; superhero
Script George Brenner
Pencils George Brenner
Inks George Brenner

10 page Manhunter story "Here Lies Manhunter"

Characters Manhunter [Dan Richards]; VILLAIN: The Sexton [Max Suttle] (first appearance)
Genre superhero
Pencils Al Bryant?
Inks Al Bryant?

6 page Phantom Lady story "Murder On the High Seas"

Characters Phantom Lady [Sandra Knight]; Jake (a comic strip artist; first appearance)
Genre superhero
Pencils Frank Borth
Inks Frank Borth

2 page Dick Mace text story "Sabotage"

Characters Dick Mace
Genre Detective
Script Robert Hyatt ?
Letters typeset

6 page Flatfoot Burns story "Flatfoot Burns Is Heading This Way"

Characters Flatfoot Burns (first appearance)
Genre humor; detective
Script Al Stahl
Pencils Al Stahl
Inks Al Stahl

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 "Aunt Sofie's Haunted House"

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