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Issue Details

Issue #22
Published September 1943
Frequency Monthly
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 68
Editing George Brenner
Notes Copyright 1943 by Comic Magazines.

Cover Details

Characters Plastic Man [Eel O'Brian]; Spirit [Denny Colt]
Genre Superhero
Pencils Jack Cole
Inks Jack Cole
Reprinted in Plastic Man Archives (DC, 1998 series) #2 (December 2000)

15 page Plastic Man story "The Eyes Have It!"

Characters Plastic Man [Eel O'Brian]; Woozy Winks; Chief Branner (first use of name); Bright Eyes (first appearance); VILLAINS: The Sphinx (first appearance; dies); Mr. Grimley (first appearance; flashback); Mrs. Grimley (first appearance; flashback)
Synopsis Plas rescues a young orphan from the Sphinx.
Genre Superhero
Script Jack Cole
Pencils Jack Cole
Inks Jack Cole
Letters Jack Cole
Reprinted in Jack Cole and Plastic Man Forms Stretched to Their Limits (Chronicle Books, 2001 series) #nn; in Plastic Man Archives (DC, 1998 series) #2 (December 2000)

1 page Dewey Drip story "Dewey Drip"

Genre gag
Script Joe Devlin
Pencils Joe Devlin
Inks Joe Devlin

7 page Spirit story "The Morger Boys"

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) #8/18/1940

8 page Human Bomb story "The Dog and the Bombardier"

Characters Human Bomb [Roy Lincoln]; The Bombardiers [Montague T. McGurk; Swordo; Red Rogers] (last appearance)
Genre superhero
Script Paul Gustavson
Pencils Paul Gustavson
Inks Paul Gustavson

10 page Manhunter story "Dr. Sackville"

Characters Manhunter [Dan Richards]
Genre superhero
Pencils John Cassone
Inks John Cassone

1 page Burp the Twerp story "On the Beach"

Characters Burp the Twerp
Genre gag
Script Jack Cole
Pencils Jack Cole
Inks Jack Cole
Letters Jack Cole

7 page Destiny story "The Spanish Treasure Map"

Characters Destiny
Genre detective; superhero
Pencils Jack Keller?
Inks Jack Keller?

2 page Dick Mace text story "Curtain of Death"

Characters Dick Mace
Genre Detective
Script Robert Hyatt ?
Letters typeset

6 page Phantom Lady story "Submarine Sabotage"

Characters Phantom Lady [Sandra Knight]; The Raven; Spider Widow
Genre superhero
Pencils Arthur Peddy?
Inks Arthur Peddy?

1 page Super Snooper story "Super Snooper"

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

6 page Flatfoot Burns story "Termite of Terror"

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