Volume: 1
Price: 0.10 USD
Pages: 60
On-sale Date: 1944-06-14
Editing: George Brenner (credited as George E. Brenner) (editor); Busy Arnold (credited as E. M. Arnold) (general manager)
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[no title indexed]
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Plastic Man / cover / 1 page

Pencils:
Al Bryant (signed)
Inks:
Al Bryant (signed)
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:superhero; humor
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:They're terrific!
Characters:
Reprints (2)

Issue Data

Indexer Notes

The on-sale date and volume number are from the publication date and volume number reported to the U.S. Copyright Office found in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1944, New Series, Volume 39, Number 2. Class B periodical. Copyright registration number B 638498.

Plastic Man's Rubber Armor!!!
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Plastic Man / comic story / 15 pages

Script:
Pencils:
Inks:
Colors:
?
Letters:
  • Genre:superhero; humor
Characters:
Chief Branner; Sammy (villain, introduction); The Hood (villain, introduction); Al (villain, introduction); Pete (villain, introduction)
Synopsis:
The Hood finds a "chink" in Plastic Man's rubber armor!
Reprints (2)

[no title indexed]
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Dewey Drip / comic story / 1 page

Script:
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Colors:
?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:humor; military
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:One side for the navy, silly!
Characters:
Dewey Drip
Synopsis:
While on leave, soldier Dewey is bullied by various sailors. He vows to kick "the next thing that passes me in a navy uniform." This happens to be a tough WAVE, who gives as good as she gets.

Indexer Notes

The United States Naval Reserve (Women's Reserve), better known as the WAVES for the Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service, was the World War II women's branch of the United States Naval Reserve. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WAVES

[The Murder That Wasn't]
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Destiny / comic story / 5 pages

Script:
Pencils:
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Colors:
?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:detective-mystery; superhero
Characters:
Destiny

[Twin Trouble]
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Flatfoot Burns / comic story / 6 pages

Script:
Milt Stein (signed)
Pencils:
Milt Stein (signed)
Inks:
Milt Stein (signed)
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:humor; detective-mystery
Characters:
Flatfoot Burns

The Corpse of Mistaken Identity
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Manhunter / comic story / 10 pages

Script:
?
Pencils:
Al Bryant (signed)
Inks:
Al Bryant (signed)
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:superhero
Characters:

The Conqueror
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text story / 2 pages

Script:
?
Letters:
typeset

He Really Crashes the Party
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The Human Bomb / comic story / 8 pages

Script:
? (see notes)
Pencils:
Inks:
Colors:
?
Letters:
  • Genre:superhero
Characters:
Synopsis:
Roy invents a soft drink that required no sugar......useful because of the war-time sugar rationing.

Indexer Notes

Writer credit revised from Paul Gustavson to ? by Craig Delich on April 4, 2013. Jim Amash in the Quality Companion verifies that Gustavson wrote this feature through Police (Quality Comics, 1941 series) #22, then picked up again with #37. The intervening writer is unknown.

Paul's son, Terry, said that he never saw any of his Dad's work leave his Dad's studio that he had not penciled, inked, and lettered.

[Burp Goes to Medical School]
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Burp the Twerp / comic story / 1 page

Script:
Jack Cole (credited as Ralph Johns)
Pencils:
Jack Cole (credited as Ralph Johns)
Inks:
Jack Cole (credited as Ralph Johns)
Colors:
?
Letters:
Jack Cole (credited as Ralph Johns)
  • Genre:humor
Characters:
Burp the Twerp

[Sphinx and Satin]
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The Spirit / comic story / 8 pages

Script:
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Letters:
  • Genre:superhero
Characters:
Reprints (1)

The Haunted House
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Captain Tootsie; Tootsie Roll / comics-form advertising / 1 page

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Table of Contents ToC
    Table of Contents
  1. ["They're terrific!"]
    Plastic Man
  2. Plastic Man's Rubber Armor!!!
    Plastic Man
  3. ["One side for the navy, silly!"]
    Dewey Drip
  4. [The Murder That Wasn't]
    Destiny
  5. [Twin Trouble]
    Flatfoot Burns
  6. The Corpse of Mistaken Identity
    Manhunter
  7. The Conqueror
  8. He Really Crashes the Party
    The Human Bomb
  9. [Burp Goes to Medical School]
    Burp the Twerp
  10. [Sphinx and Satin]
    The Spirit
  11. The Haunted House
    Captain Tootsie; Tootsie Roll
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  • Craig Delich
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  • Clint Maxwell
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