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| Publication | December 1942 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: Monthly |
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| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Plastic Man [Patrick "Eel" O'Brian]; Chic Carter (inset); The Human Bomb [Roy Lincoln] (inset); #711 [Daniel Dyce] (inset); Manhunter [Dan Richards] (inset); The Spirit [Denny Colt] (inset) |
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| Comic Story | Oh, Plastic Man! (13 pages) |
| Synopsis | Woozy and Plastic Man set out to capture Eel O'Brian, but, in the end, Plas convinces Officer Murphey to releasing Woozy into his custory.. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Plastic Man [Patrick "Eel" O'Brian]; Woozy Winks; Captain Murphey [aka Captain Murphy]; Officer Mike |
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| Comic Story | The Mark of the Cobra (10 pages) |
| Synopsis | The producer at the opera is bumped off by a poisonous spring needle in his opera seat. The evil masked Cobra, and his pet King (which manages to tag Manhunter), turn to leave when Thor charges them and is shot by the Cobra's men. The snake, having used most of its venom on his first victim, couldn't stop the wounded, bleeding dog from crawling over to his master and reviving him, who then unmasked the Cobra in the dark after he had ambushed the Police. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Manhunter [Dan Richards]; Thor; Sergeant Clancy; The Cobra [Hal Kant] (villain, introduction); King (villain, the Cobra's pet snake) |
| Notes | Hal Kant named after comics editor Hal Kanter.
Originally credited to Jim Mooney, but he has rounder and more relaxed faces than this, as in Tales of the Unexpected #35. The staring, scary eyes can be none other than Vernon Henkel. Also the very thin and broad hat brims are his, only the inking is different. Compare with his signed Chic Carter story in this issue. |
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| Synopsis | Roy's former chemistry teacher goes mad and invents an invisibility cloak and a disintegrating light gun. He attacks the Human Bomb as the Chameleon and dies when he accidentally touches Roy's bare skin. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: The Human Bomb [Roy Lincoln]; Mr. Chameleon [Professor Thorndyke] (villain, introduction, 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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| Content | Genre: Humor |
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| Comic Story | Eldas Thayer (7 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: The Spirit [Denny Colt]; Eldas Thayer (villain) |
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| Content | Genre: Humor |
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| Comic Story | The Escape of Goon McGirk (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | Dyce's carelessness ultimately leads to his demise at the hands of racketeer, Oscar Jones, who shoots and kills #711. Jone's ignonoble life and how his prison stay leads him to fisticuffs with #711, in which Jones wins out only with the benefit of his gun. Even after the first shot, the wounded Dyce fights to rally, but is eventually cut down with more shots that riddle his body. |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Crime | Characters: #711 [Daniel Dyce] (death); Goon McGirk (villain, inmate); Oscar Jones (villain, inmate, racketeer) |
| Notes | #711 was killed off just before Brenner was made an editor at Quality Comics. |
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| Text Story | Who Killed Jed Hathaway? (2 pages) |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Detective-mystery | Characters: Dick Mace |
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| Comic Story | Enter Julio (8 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Detective-mystery |
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| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Dewey Drip |
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| Comic Story | The West Point Incident (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | Phantom Lady must stop a group of foreign agents, who are lacing soldiers' stew at West Point with Mickey Finns. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Phantom Lady [Sandra Knight]; Priscilla Knight (Sandra's spinster Aunt); Major Atchinson (commander at West Point); Mr. Schott (villain); Dippy (villain) |
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