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| Publication | September 1943 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: monthly |
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| Cover | The Eyes Have It! |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Plastic Man [Patrick "Eel" O'Brian]; The Spirit [Denny Colt] (inset) |
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| Comic Story | The Eyes Have It! (15 pages) |
| Synopsis | Chief Branner denies Plastic Man the right to help a little mute boy named Bright Eyes, who is being held prisoner by his own disfigured father, the Sphinx, who uses the boy's persuasive eyes to get away with murder. Only his father's death allows the boy to speak again and tell of the abuse he has suffered at his father's hands. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Plastic Man [Patrick "Eel" O'Brian]; Woozy Winks; Chief Branner (first use of name); Bright Eyes (introduction); The Sphinx (villain, introduction, death); Mr. Grimley (villain, introduction, flashback); Mrs. Grimley (villain, introduction, flashback) |
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| Synopsis | Dewey goes home on leave, but Pappy "borrows" his uniform and gets in a brawl with the General. Dewey is blamed. |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Military | Characters: Dewey Drip; Ma Drip; Pappy Drip; General |
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| Comic Story | The Morger Boys (7 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: The Spirit [Denny Colt]; Morger Boys (villains) |
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| Comic Story | The Human Bomb and the Bombardiers! (8 pages) |
| Synopsis | The Human Bomb and the Bombadiers journey to Japanese-occupied China, where they busted up another nest of Japanese and free another prisoner. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: The Human Bomb [Roy Lincoln]; The Bombardiers [Montague T. McGurk [aka Curley]; Swordo; Miss Red Rogers] (last appearance for all) |
| Notes | Mike Kooiman and Jim Amash state in the Quality Companion that Gustavson created the strip and wrote it. Last Human Bomb story written by Paul Gustavson. |
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| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Manhunter [Dan Richards] |
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| Comic Story | On the Beach (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Sloozy Slime bets Burp $1 that he can commit a crime in five hours and that Burp cannot solve it. But boastful Burp says he can and makes the bet one zillion dollars and catches Sloozy in the act of killing his own mother. Not wanting Sloozy to lose the bet, Mrs. Slime suggests a place where Sloozy can peacefully kill her, which he does. Burp solves the crime......but is so tender-hearted, that he doesn't arrest Sloozy or take the money. |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Burp the Twerp; Mrs. Slime (Sloozy's mother, death); three crooks [Sloozy Slime; others unnamed] (villains) |
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| Synopsis | Destiny is twice transported to Death Valley, where he finds himself amid the discovery of a hidden treasure. During a fight with one of the thieves, Destiny forces the gun towards his quarry's own face, and the villain is shot in the mouth. |
| Content | Genre: Detective-mystery; Superhero | Characters: Destiny |
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| Text Story | Curtain of Death (2 pages) |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Detective-mystery | Characters: Dick Mace |
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| Comic Story | Submarine Sabotage (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | Senator Knight and other officials are taking a maiden voyage in the new super submarine, and invite Phantom Lady to go with them. They do not know, however, that one of the crew members has been replaced by a saboteur, who releases a deadly gas into the sub. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Phantom Lady [Sandra Knight]; The Raven [Tony Grey] (cameo); Spider Widow [Dianne Grayton] (cameo); Senator Knight; unnamed sub Captain; unnamed saboteur (villain) |
| Notes | Continued from Feature Comics #70 (August 1943).
Artist credits revised from "Arthur Peddy ?" to "Rudy Palais ?" by Craig Delich 2013-5-29, per Roy Thomas.
New definite Rudy Palais credit, removing the ?, by Peter Normanton in his article in Alter Ego (TwoMorrows Publications, 1999 series) #165 (September 2020). |
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| Content | Genre: Humor |
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| Comic Story | Termite of Terror (6 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Detective-mystery | Characters: Flatfoot Burns |
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