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Issue Details

Issue #3
Published October 1941
Frequency Monthly
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 68
Editing Ed Cronin [as Edward Cronin]
Notes Copyright 1941 by Comic Magazines, Inc.

Cover Details

Characters Firebrand
Genre superhero
Pencils Gill Fox
Inks Will Eisner
Reprinted in Plastic Man Archives (DC, 1998 series) #1 (December 1998)

11 page Firebrand story "Boss Slaine, Traitor"

Characters Firebrand [Rod Reilly]
Genre superhero
Script S. M. Iger
Pencils Reed Crandall
Inks Reed Crandall

6 page #711 story Rock Gatty's "Impossible" Killing

Genre superhero
Script George Brenner
Pencils George Brenner
Inks George Brenner

1 page Dewey Drip story "Dewey Drip"

Genre gag
Script Joe Devlin
Pencils Joe Devlin
Inks Joe Devlin

7 page Eagle Evans story "The Double Agent"

Genre detective
Pencils Clark Williams
Inks Clark Williams

6 page Chic Carter story "The Hand of Biro"

Genre detective
Script Vernon Henkel
Pencils Vernon Henkel
Inks Vernon Henkel
Notes Chic appears as The Sword.

6 page Plastic Man story "The Pinball Racket"

Characters Plastic Man [Eel O'Brian]; Captain Murphy [also known as Captain Murphey]; VILLAIN: Baldy Bushwack
Synopsis Plastic Man stops a pinball machine racket.
Genre superhero
Script Jack Cole
Pencils Jack Cole
Inks Jack Cole
Letters Jack Cole
Reprinted in Plastic Man Archives (DC, 1998 series) #1 (December 1998)

1 page Super Snooper story "Super Snooper"

Genre humor
Script Gill Fox
Pencils Gill Fox
Inks Gill Fox
Letters Gill Fox ?

5 page Steele Kerrigan story "The Motorcycle Cop Murder"

Genre detective
Pencils Al Bryant
Inks Al Bryant

6 page Mouthpiece story "The Escape of Fatso Dowd"

Genre superhero; detective
Script Fred Guardineer
Pencils Fred Guardineer
Inks Fred Guardineer

2 page Dick Mace text story "Pearls of Peril"

Script Robert M. Hyatt
Letters typeset
Notes Dick Mace text story.

6 page Phantom Lady story "Framed For Kidnapping"

Characters Phantom Lady [Sandra Knight]; Don Borden
Synopsis The Phantom Lady rescues her fiancee, Don Borden, from spies trying to get defense secrets from him. The spies had tried to frame the Phandom Lady for Don's kidnapping but she eluded the police. She disappears after rescuing Don and when the cops come in saying that "some dame" called in a tip, Don thinks of Sandra.
Genre superhero
Pencils Arthur Peddy
Inks Arthur Peddy

1 page Burp the Twerp story "Gangway, Crime!"

Characters Burp the Twerp
Genre gag
Script Jack Cole
Pencils Jack Cole
Inks Jack Cole
Letters Jack Cole

6 page Human Bomb story "The Purple Mist"

Characters Human Bomb [Roy Lincoln]
Genre superhero
Script Paul Gustavson
Pencils Paul Gustavson [Paul Carrol]
Inks Paul Gustavson