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| Publication | March 1942 | 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); Phantom Lady [Sandra Knight] (inset); The Mouthpiece [Bill Perkins] (inset) |
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| Comic Story | Firebrand Joins the Navy (9 pages) |
| Synopsis | Rod and Slugger join the U.S. Navy Reserve and were assigned duty aboard the destroyer "Russell", and their mission was to escort a British vessel safely across the ocean. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Firebrand [Rod Reilly]; "Slugger" Dunn; the Nazis (villains) |
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| Comic Story | The Van Deth Brothers (5 pages) |
| Synopsis | The Mouthpiece catches up with the Van Deth Brothers in the act of disposing of a body, and, in the ensuing chase, Skul dies after tumbling from a rooftop. |
| Content | Genre: Detective-mystery; Superhero | Characters: The Mouthpiece [Bill Perkins]; Skul Van Deth (villain, death); Morbidd Van Deth (villain) |
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| Comic Story | The Plane Hijacking Scheme (5 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Detective-mystery | Characters: Eagle Evans |
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| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Dewey Drip |
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| Comic Story | The Jewelry Store Frameup (5 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Detective-mystery | Characters: Steele Kerrigan |
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| Comic Story | The Origin of Manhunter (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | When Dan's girlfriend's brother is wrongly accused of murder, he becomes the Manhunter to straighten things out. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Manhunter [Dan Richards, aka Donald Richards] (introduction, origin); Thor (his dog); Jim Kelly; Kit Kelly (Dan's lady friend); Jim Kelly (Kit's brother); Al Armand; Johnny Cosentino (villain) |
| Notes | Manhunter's calling card, left at the end of the story, is in the shape of a shoe print (the same as his chest emblem). |
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| Comic Story | The Sinister Eight Ball (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | Plastic Man stops Professor McSneer's invention, the Eight Ball, which is a rolling destructive machine that attracts precious metals. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Plastic Man [Patrick "Eel" O'Brian]; Professor McSneer (villain, introduction) |
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| Comic Story | The Light of the Orient (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | Murderous doings around an old Chinese jewel. |
| Content | Genre: Detective-mystery | Characters: Chic Carter; Wu Lan; Po San; Monahan; Mrs. Croft; Barbara Croft; Jerry Croft; Thomas Croft |
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| Comic Story | Super Snooper (1 page) |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
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| Comic Story | The Education of Butcher Bowes (5 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Crime | Characters: #711 [Daniel Dyce]; Butcher Bowes (villain) |
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| Text Story | Seven Strokes of Doom (2 pages) |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Detective-mystery | Characters: Dick Mace |
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| Synopsis | Don and Sandra travel to Cuba to investigate subversive activities of European tourists. What they discover is a plan to mine the waters between Cuba and Florida in order to prevent U.S. interference in an attempt to occupy Cuba. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Phantom Lady [Sandra Knight]; Don Borden; Senator Knight; un-named Secret Service Chief; Otto (villain); Shlacht (villain); Louie (villain); Hugo (villain); Colonel Trapilla (villain, Cuban Police Chief) |
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| Comic Story | Gigolo Jones (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.
Letters credit from Terry Gustafson, Paul Gustavson's son. |
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