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Publication | May 1942 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: Monthly |
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Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Plastic Man [Patrick "Eel" O'Brian]; #711 [Daniel Dyce] (inset); The Human Bomb [Roy Lincoln] (inset); Manhunter [Dan Richards] (inset); The Firebrand [Rod Reilly] (inset); Chic Carter (inset) |
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Comic Story | Satan's Son Sells Out to the Japs! (9 pages) |
Synopsis | Hairy Arms is a gang leader who serves the Axis powers, and when his gang finds out about that, they defy him and seek help from Eel O'Brian. Plastic Man follows up with fellow officer Plotz, then learns that Arms has kidnapped a boy and left a ransom note demanding $50,000 be left at Wildwood Cemetery, where Arms was found manufacturing an army of robots. Later, Arms is taken down by his own men. |
Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Plastic Man [Patrick "Eel" O'Brian] (origin re-cap); Officer Plotz; Hairy Arms [aka Mrs. Reknits] (villain, introduction); Slug (villain, introduction, death); Wooley (villain, introduction, death); Arson Carson (villain, introduction) |
Notes | Wildwood Cemetery was the home of the Spirit. There is a real world cemetery by that name in Massachusetts, a state to which Cole later moved. |
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Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Dewey Drip |
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Content | Genre: Detective-mystery |
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Comic Story | The Horse Killers (5 pages) |
Content | Genre: Detective-mystery |
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Comic Story | Bat Barron's Prison Murder Plot (5 pages) |
Synopsis | Dyce finds a way to contribute to the national defense from prison when Nazis threaten to recruit agents from within the prison. |
Content | Genre: Adventure; Crime | Characters: #711 [Daniel Dyce]; Bat Barron (villain); the Nazis (villains) |
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Synopsis | A trio of freaks secretly observe and aid Manhunter on a case. |
Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Manhunter [Dan Richards]; Thor; Jim Kelly; Kit Kelly; The Voodoo Queen (villain, introduction); a voodoo priest (villain, introduction); Xaxol (villain, introduction, a giant); The Firing Squad (villains) |
Notes | The shoe print disappears from the small circle on Manhunter's chest. |
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Comic Story | The Butler Did It! (6 pages) |
Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: The Firebrand [Rod Reilly] (Naval Reserve Officer); Joan Rogers (Rod's fiancee); Slugger Dunn; Maxwell (inventor of a gun sight); the Nazis (villains) |
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Comic Story | The Rum Runner's Racket (6 pages) |
Content | Genre: Detective-mystery |
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Synopsis | Sandra sees her father shot down in Congress by a Japanese agent, and learns that the Japanese are plotting to destroy the J. M. Steel Plant. |
Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Phantom Lady [Sandra Knight]; Senator Knight; the Japanese (villains) |
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Text Story | Doom Train (2 pages) |
Credits | Letters: typeset |
Content | Genre: Detective-mystery | Characters: Dick Mace |
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Comic Story | Super Snooper (1 page) |
Content | Genre: Humor |
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Comic Story | Mike Fooch, Czar of Crime (5 pages) |
Content | Genre: Detective-mystery; Superhero | Characters: The Mouthpiece [Bill Perkins]; Mike Fooch (villain) |
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Comic Story | The Murder Movie (1 page) |
Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Burp the Twerp |
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Synopsis | The Human Bomb tracks down a group of Nazis who had seized an aluminum mine in Argentina. |
Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: The Human Bomb [Roy Lincoln]; Jean Adams (Roy's fiancee); the Nazis (villains) |
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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