| Additional Information |
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| Publication | July 1946 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: monthly |
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| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Plastic Man [Patrick "Eel" O'Brian]; Woozy Winks |
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| Featuring | Pepsi the Pepsi-Cola Cop |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
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| Comic Story | Overworked Genie (15 pages) |
| 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. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Plastic Man [Patrick "Eel" O'Brian]; Woozy Winks; Mickey; Mrs. O'Higginson (introduction); Yes-Man (villain, introduction); Mr. Groo (villain, introduction) |
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| Comic Story | Signs of Reform (6 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Detective-mystery | Characters: Flatfoot Burns |
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| Comic Story | Fire in the Sky (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | A scientist is able to re-create Roy's explosive formula, and when the Human Bomb attacks and destroys the scientist's lair, the villain is destroyed with it. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: The Human Bomb [Roy Lincoln]; Hustace Throckmorton; Yarboe (villain, scientist, death) |
| Notes | Mike Kooiman and Jim Amash state in the Quality Companion that Gustavson created the strip and wrote it. Gustavson's son, Terry Gustafson, concurs. |
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| Comic Story | The Hooded Ones (7 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Teen | Characters: Candy O'Connor |
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| Synopsis | Dewey is mustered out of the Army and enjoys his freedom -- until his mother starts bossing him around. |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Dewey Drip; Sergeant; Maw Drip |
| Notes | In the very first Dewey Drip strip (Police Comics (1941 series) #1 August 1941), Dewey received his draft notice. The story in #56 is the last one in which he appears in Army uniform. |
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| Comic Story | The Vengeance (10 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Manhunter [Dan Richards]; VILLAIN: The Vengeance (first appearance; dies) |
| Notes | Art formerly attributed to Al Bryant. |
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| Text Story | Bristol House Ghost (2 pages) |
| Featuring | Dick Mace |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | Dick Mace text story. |
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| Content | Genre: Humor |
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| Comic Story | Big Jake Gooley (7 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: The Spirit; Ebony; Big Jake Gooley; Uncle Boss Gooley; Esau Gooley |
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