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Issue Details

Issue #45
Published August 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 "Chief Rain-In-the-Trap"

Characters Plastic Man [Eel O'Brian]; Woozy Winks; Chief Branner; Cyrus Van Rooten (first appearance); Jeeves (first appearance); VILLAIN: Chief Rain-In-the-Trap [Mickey the Actor] (first appearance)
Synopsis Mickey the Actor poses as an indian to try to get the town from Cyrus Van Rooten.
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 "Vixen the Viper"

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

6 page Human Bomb story "The Taxi Cab Jinx"

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 "At Indian Falls"

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

10 page Manhunter story "The Tailor's Dummy"

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

2 page Legionnaire text story "Legionnaire"

Letters typeset

1 page Burp the Twerp story "The Holdup Victim"

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

8 page Spirit story "Keep Out"

Characters Spirit [Denny Colt]
Genre Superhero
Script Bill Woolfolk
Pencils Lou Fine
Inks Quality staff
Letters Martin DeMuth
Reprinted from Spirit, The (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #6/27/1943