Issue Details

Issue	#18
Published	April 1943
Frequency	Monthly
Cover Price	0.10 USD
Pages	68
Editing	John Beardsley
Notes	Copyright 1943 by Comic Magazines, Inc.

Cover Details

Characters	Plastic Man [Eel O'Brian]; The Spirit
Genre	superhero
Pencils	Jack Cole
Inks	Jack Cole
Reprinted	in Plastic Man Archives (DC, 1998 series) #1 (December 1998)

13 page Plastic Man story "The Drafting of Plastic Man"

Characters	Plastic Man [Eel O'Brian]; Woozy Winks; Captain Murphey [also known as Captain Murphy]; Professor Van Dyke (first appearance; dies); VILLAIN: Pogo Flinch (first appearance)
Synopsis	Plas's home base named (Mammoth City); Plas gets drafted, but FDR has him join the FBI.
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)

10 page Manhunter story "A Night of Murders"

Characters	Manhunter [Dan Richards]
Genre	superhero
Pencils	Al Bryant?
Inks	Al Bryant?

1 page Burp the Twerp story "Burp Gets a New Body"

Characters	Burp the Twerp
Genre	gag
Script	Jack Cole
Pencils	Jack Cole [Ralph Johns]
Inks	Jack Cole
Letters	Jack Cole

7 page Destiny story "The Headless Man"

Characters	Destiny; Frank N. Stein (the Headless Man; first appearance)
Genre	detective; superhero
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 Spirit story "Gang Warfare"

Characters	Spirit [Denny Colt]; VILLAIN: The Combination (first appearance); Mr. Gaunt (first appearance)
Genre	Superhero
Script	Will Eisner
Pencils	Will Eisner
Inks	Will Eisner
Reprinted	from Spirit, The (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #9/22/1940

6 page Phantom Lady story "Golden Egg"

Characters	Phantom Lady [Sandra Knight]; VILLAIN: Bunny Rabbit [Killer Dan] (first appearance; dies)
Genre	superhero
Pencils	Frank Borth
Inks	Frank Borth

8 page Chic Carter story "The Man From Nowhere"

Characters	Chic Carter; VILLAIN: Killer Kane (first appearance; dies)
Genre	detective
Script	Vernon Henkel
Pencils	Vernon Henkel
Inks	Vernon Henkel
Notes	last appearance

2 page Dick Mace text story "No Firing Squad For Juan"

Characters	Dick Mace
Genre	Detective
Script	Robert Hyatt ?
Letters	typeset

1 page Super Snooper story "Super Snooper"

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

8 page Human Bomb story "The Three Mosquitoes"

Characters	Human Bomb [Roy Lincoln]; VILLAINS: The Three Mosquitoes (first appearance; Baron and two others)
Genre	superhero
Script	Paul Gustavson
Pencils	Paul Gustavson
Inks	Paul Gustavson