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Issue Details

Issue #56
Published July 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 "Overworked Genie"

Characters Plastic Man [Eel O'Brian]; Woozy Winks; Mickey; Mrs. O'Higginson (first appearance); VILLAINS: Yes-Man (first appearance); Mr. Groo (first appearance)
Synopsis When Plas plays a prank on a youngster who is rubbing a lamp, gangsters find out and, believing it's real, kidnap the boy.
Genre Superhero
Script Jack Cole
Pencils Jack Cole
Inks Andre LeBlanc
Letters Jack Cole
Reprinted in PLASTIC MAN ARCHIVES (DC, 1998 series) #5 (September 2003)

6 page Flatfoot Burns story "Signs of Reform"

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

6 page Human Bomb story "Fire In the Sky"

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

7 page Candy story "The Hooded Ones"

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

1 page Dewey Drip story "Dewey Drip"

Genre gag
Script Joe Devlin
Pencils Joe Devlin
Inks Joe Devlin

10 page Manhunter story "The Vengeance"

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

2 page Dick Mace text story "Bristol House Ghost"

Letters typeset
Notes Dick Mace text story.

2 page Specks story "Specks"

Genre Humor
Script Michael Senich
Pencils Michael Senich
Inks Michael Senich

7 page Spirit story "Big Jake Gooley"

Characters Spirit [Denny Colt]
Genre Superhero
Script Manly Wade Wellman
Pencils Lou Fine
Inks Lou Fine
Letters Martin DeMuth
Reprinted from Spirit, The (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #10/1/1944