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Issue Details

Issue #41
Published April 1945
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 60
Editing George Brenner

Cover Details

Characters Plastic Man [Eel O'Brian]; Woozy Winks
Genre Superhero
Pencils Jack Cole (signed)
Inks Jack Cole (signed)
Reprinted in PLASTIC MAN ARCHIVES (DC, 1998 series) #4 (November 2002)

15 page Plastic Man story "Louie the Lift"

Characters Plastic Man [Eel O'Brian]; Woozy Winks; Chief Branner; Mr. Grabbett (first appearance); VILLAINS: Mask [Sammy Runn] (first appearance); Snatch (first appearance); Louie the Lift (first appearance)
Synopsis Plastic Man and Woozy stop the Mask from bankrupting the Grabbett and Runn Department Store.
Genre Superhero
Script Jack Cole
Pencils Jack Cole
Inks Jack Cole
Letters Jack Cole
Reprinted in PLASTIC MAN ARCHIVES (DC, 1998 series) #4 (November 2002)

6 page Flatfoot Burns story "Rollo the Hypnotist"

Characters Flatfoot Burns
Genre humor; detective
Script Al Stahl
Pencils Al Stahl
Inks Janice Valleau (Ginger)

6 page Human Bomb story "The Paralyzer Ray"

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

1 page Dewey Drip story "Dewey Drip"

Genre gag
Script Joe Devlin
Pencils Joe Devlin
Inks Joe Devlin

7 page Candy story "Take a Chance"

Characters Candy O'Connor; Tim O'Connor (first appearance; Candy's dad)
Genre Teen; Humor
Script Harry Sahle
Pencils Harry Sahle
Inks Harry Sahle

2 page Dick Mace text story "Chinaman's Chance"

Letters typeset
Notes Dick Mace text story.

10 page Manhunter story "The Port of Missing Goods"

Characters Manhunter [Dan Richards]; VILLAIN: The Gnome (first appearance)
Genre Superhero
Pencils Al Bryant
Inks Al Bryant

1 page Burp the Twerp story "Working Like a Horse"

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

8 page Spirit story "The Jewel of Death"

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) #7/20/1941