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Issue Details

Issue #54
Published May 1946
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
Inks Jack Cole
Reprinted in PLASTIC MAN ARCHIVES (DC, 1998 series) #5 (September 2003)

15 page Plastic Man story "The Thinking Machine"

Characters Plastic Man [Eel O'Brian]; Woozy Winks; Chief Branner; Professor Medew (first appearance; dies); VILLAINS: The Thinker [Goofty Garlow] (first appearance)
Synopsis A not so bright janitor is inspired by a thinking maching to kill it's creator and commit crimes.
Genre Superhero
Script Jack Cole
Pencils Andre LeBlanc
Inks Andre LeBlanc
Letters Jack Cole
Reprinted in PLASTIC MAN ARCHIVES (DC, 1998 series) #5 (September 2003)

1 page Dewey Drip story "Dewey Drip"

Genre gag
Script Joe Devlin
Pencils Joe Devlin
Inks Joe Devlin

10 page Manhunter story "The Man In the Cloak"

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

6 page Flatfoot Burns story "The Clothing Robberies"

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

6 page Human Bomb story "Infatuation"

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

2 page Dick Mace text story "Haunted Theatre"

Letters typeset
Notes Dick Mace text story.

7 page Candy story "Down With Jive!"

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

8 page Spirit story "Byron's Memoirs"

Characters Spirit [Denny Colt]
Genre Superhero
Script Manly Wade Wellman?
Pencils Lou Fine
Inks Quality staff
Letters Martin DeMuth
Reprinted from Spirit, The (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #3/14/1943