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Issue Details

Issue #32
Published July 1944
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 60
Editing George Brenner

Cover Details

Characters Plastic Man [Eel O'Brian]
Genre Superhero
Pencils Jack Cole
Inks Jack Cole
Reprinted in PLASTIC MAN ARCHIVES (DC, 1998 series) #3 (November 2001)

15 page Plastic Man story "The La Cucaracha Caper"

Characters Plastic Man [Eel O'Brian]; Woozy Winks; Chief Branner; Simeon T. Whistlebutton (first appearance); Mr. Ames (first appearance); Ellen Ames (first appearance); Pancho (first appearance); VILLAINS: The Mask (first appearance); Mopes McGee (first appearance)
Synopsis While on a vacation in Mexico, Plas and Woozy appear in drag.
Genre Superhero
Script Jack Cole
Pencils Jack Cole
Inks Jack Cole
Letters Jack Cole
Reprinted in PLASTIC MAN ARCHIVES (DC, 1998 series) #3 (November 2001)

6 page Flatfoot Burns story "The Crooks Convention"

Characters Flatfoot Burns; Jughead Jones (first appearance)
Genre humor; detective
Script Marvin Stein
Pencils Marvin Stein
Inks Marvin Stein

1 page Dewey Drip story "Dewey Drip"

Genre gag
Script Joe Devlin
Pencils Joe Devlin
Inks Joe Devlin

5 page Destiny story "The Gates of Perdition"

Characters Destiny; Death (first appearance); VILLAIN: Master of the Underworld (first appearance)
Genre detective; superhero

8 page Spirit story "Thomas Hawkins"

Characters Spirit [Denny Colt]
Genre Superhero
Script Will Eisner
Pencils Will Eisner
Inks Will Eisner
Reprinted from Spirit, The (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #5/25/1941

2 page text story "The Wolf Man"

Letters typeset

8 page Human Bomb story "Often a Bomb, Never a Dud"

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

1 page Burp the Twerp story "Doc Brewer's Tonic"

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

10 page Manhunter story "The Giggling Corpse"

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