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Issue Details

Issue #42
Published May 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 "The Diabolical Dr. Dratt"

Characters Plastic Man [Eel O'Brian]; Woozy Winks; Chief Branner; VILLAIN: Dr. Lucius D. Dratt (first appearance)
Synopsis Dr. Dratt tries to kill Plastic Man.
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)

7 page Candy story "The Good Records"

Characters Candy O'Connor
Genre Teen; Humor
Script Harry Sahle
Pencils Harry Sahle
Inks Harry Sahle

6 page Human Bomb story "Mortgage Melodrama"

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

10 page Manhunter story "Two Tracks"

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

1 page Burp the Twerp story "The Benefit Show"

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

2 page Dick Mace text story "Jungle Episode"

Letters typeset
Notes Dick Mace text story.

6 page Flatfoot Burns story "Lizzie Dizzie's Hat Shoppe"

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

1 page Dewey Drip story "Dewey Drip"

Genre gag
Script Joe Devlin
Pencils Joe Devlin
Inks Joe Devlin

8 page Spirit story "Professor Pinx"

Characters Spirit [Denny Colt]
Genre Superhero
Script Will Eisner
Pencils Will Eisner; Lou Fine
Inks Lou Fine
Letters Sam Rosen
Reprinted from Spirit, The (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #8/2/1942