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Publication | January 1944 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: monthly |
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Cover | Plastic Man Battles Body, Mind and Soul! |
Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Plastic Man [Patrick "Eel" O'Brian]; Pike Ronan |
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Comic Story | Body, Mind and Soul (15 pages) |
Synopsis | Chief Branner discovers that Plastic Man is actually a wanted felon, and Plastic Man is ready to submit and do his time. However, the Chief finds him too valuable of asset to the force and gives him an assignment to prove himself by bringing in three wanted crooks, each of whom was a unique challenge: one of brawn, one of brains and one of soul (a werewolf, no less). Branner is impressed and absolves O'Brian of his past. |
Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Plastic Man [Patrick "Eel" O'Brian]; Woozy Winks; Chief Branner; Randy Ronan (introduction); Vida (introduction); Pike Ronan (villain, introduction, a werewolf, death); Slugger Crott (villain, introduction); Hoppy (villain, introduction); Brains (villain, introduction); Butch (villain, introduction) |
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Synopsis | Dewey gets a tattoo of his girlfriend's face, but a last-minute inoculation mars the perfection of her image. |
Content | Genre: Humor; Military | Characters: Dewey Drip; Fanny Belle |
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Comic Story | The Framed Gorilla (6 pages) |
Content | Genre: Humor; Detective-mystery | Characters: Flatfoot Burns |
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Comic Story | The Picture Murders (5 pages) |
Content | Genre: Detective-mystery; Superhero | Characters: Destiny |
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Comic Story | The Ghostmaster (10 pages) |
Synopsis | A vaudeville performer billed as the Ghostmaster, a great make-up artist, a master of the quick change, and able to bring the dead to life, is bitter when vaudeville died. He planned and plotted until he found Mr. Trueman, a bank president so trusted, that Fearless' impersonation wouldn't be questioned until he emptied the vaults and faked a suicide. He gives the game away when he adopts Richards' identity as a disguise and meets up with Manhunter, who captures Mr. Fearless and recognizes him as the Ghostmaster, a performer that inspired him as a youth. |
Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Manhunter [Dan Richards]; Thor; The Ghostmaster [Mr. Fearless] (villain, death) |
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Text Story | Ten Who Never Came Back (2 pages) |
Credits | Letters: typeset |
Content | Genre: Detective-mystery | Characters: Dick Mace |
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Content | Genre: Humor; Military | Characters: Dewey Drip |
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Comic Story | Patch-Eye the Perilous (8 pages) |
Synopsis | The Human Bomb encounters a super-villain named Patch-Eye, an evil genius roboticist. |
Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: The Human Bomb [Roy Lincoln]; Hustace Throckmorton; Patch-Eye (villain) |
Notes | This is Leav. He draws large hands, many lively faces, some panels without backgrounds, and a special way of running with high lifted legs. Compare with his signed story in (Orbit-Wanted, 1947 series) #52 (February 1953). |
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Comic Story | Fighting the Front (1 page) |
Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Burp the Twerp |
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Comic Story | The Death Dolls (7 pages) |
Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: The Spirit [Denny Colt]; Yagor (villain, introduction) |
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| Captain Tootsie and The Secret Weapon (1 page) |
Synopsis | Nazi spies try to kidnap Rollo to discover his secret weapon, but they are foiled by Captain Tootsie. |
Content | Characters: Hans |
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