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| Wow...no wonder marijuana is illegal if it turns even a super hero into a gun crazy madman! |
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| Although I guess in the case of Superman it would require marijuana from Krypton. |
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| I'm sure it's not wacky baccy that persuades me how good this comic is. A great splash page on Eagle Evans; the aforementioned Plastic Man madness; a nice looking Phantom Lady and that excellent Human Bomb story to round it out. How good The Bomb looks. I've always enjoyed Gustavson's art. |
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| Not to mention Brick Bat (you know he's one of the evil alternate world versions of Batman because of the atrocious green suit that clashes with the cowl) and the gang of 'women of abnormal physical development' (that we, alas, get to see nothing of since there's so much else going on in the Plas story.) Quality did rock. |
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| And in the case of Omnipotent Girl, it would have whatever power she imbued it with. |
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| Additional Information |
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| Publication | December 1941 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: Monthly |
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| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Plastic Man [Patrick "Eel" O'Brian]; Firebrand [Rod Reilly] (inset); #711 [Daniel Dyce] (inset); The Human Bomb [Roy Lincoln] (inset); Chic Carter (inset) |
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| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Firebrand [Rod Reilly] |
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| Comic Story | The Brick Bat (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | Because he was a model prison, Dyce is awarded freedoms, including being a trustee and working in the prison offices where he had access to the daily news. Because of this freedom, he was enabled to dash out of and into the prison, usually under the cover of darkness. On one such venture, he meets his first masked foe, The Brick Bat, who had forced a scientist to create a lethal brick which released a deadly gas upon impact. |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Crime | Characters: #711 [Daniel Dyce]; The Brick Bat (villain, introduction) |
| Notes | The Brock Bat's cowl was very similar to that of the Batman's. |
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| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Dewey Drip |
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| Comic Story | Azores Adventure (7 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Detective-mystery | Characters: Eagle Evans |
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| Comic Story | The Gambling Syndicate of Tony Fancy (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | Chic breaks up a gambling racket in order to rescue a fellow newsman, who sees through his Sword disguise. |
| Content | Genre: Detective-mystery | Characters: Chic Carter [The Sword]; Sgt. Monahan; Gay Nolan (Chic's colleague); Tony Fancy (villain) |
| Notes | Chic appears as The Sword one final time, wearing a top hat and domino mask instead of his previous yellow and red long johns.
The introductory text states that Chic often becomes the Sword. |
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| Comic Story | The Return of Madam Brawn (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | The cigar-chomping Brawn returns unrepentant, and during a battle, Gassin Gert uses her gas gun and Brawn falls on a spike and dies......but not before Plas revealed his secret identity to her. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Plastic Man [Patrick "Eel" O'Brian]; Captain Murphy [aka Captain Murphey]; Madam Brawn [aka "Kingpin" of Crime] (villain, death); Gassin Gert (villain) |
| Notes | Original indexer reports Plas being forced to smoke marijuana in this story. |
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| Comic Story | Super Snooper (1 page) |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
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| Comic Story | Dr. Burgess's Diamond Theft (5 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Detective-mystery |
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| Comic Story | The Madness of Professor Snook (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | The Mouthpiece has to track down a gang of brutal thugs, headed by Professor Snook, who took a plunge over a castle wall rather than be captured. |
| Content | Genre: Detective-mystery; Superhero | Characters: The Mouthpiece [Bill Perkins]; Professor Snook (villain, death) |
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| Text Story | Vanishing Evidence (2 pages) |
| Featuring | Dick Mace |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Characters: Dick Mace |
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| Comic Story | Ortega the Saboteur (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | The Phantom Lady stops a spy from stealing a plane and getting away with valuable information. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Phantom Lady [Sandra Knight]; Don Borden; Senator Henry Knight (cameo); un-named U.S. Assistant Secretary of State; Donna Clarrissa Montano (Parador Ambassador's daughter); Lieutenant Yardley (USN Officer); Captain Ortega (villain, Parador Army Officer) |
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| Comic Story | Suicide Sam (1 page) |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Burp the Twerp |
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| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: The Human Bomb [Roy Lincoln] |
| 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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