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Issue Details

Issue #59
Published October 1946
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 60
Editing George Brenner

Cover Details

Characters Plastic Man [Eel O'Brian]; Woozy Winks
Genre Superhero
Pencils Jack Cole
Inks Jack Cole
Colors ?
Reprinted in PLASTIC MAN ARCHIVES (DC, 1998 series) #6 (September 2004)

15 page Plastic Man story "The Menace of Mr. Happiness"

Characters Plastic Man [Eel O'Brian]; Woozy Winks; Chief Branner; VILLAIN: Mr. Happiness [Bender Bellows] (first appearance)
Synopsis Bender Bellows has a potion that makes whoever drinks it really happy, and willing to do whatever Bender asks.
Genre Superhero
Script Joe Millard
Pencils Jack Cole
Inks Andre LeBlanc
Letters Jack Cole
Notes Script credit from Martin O'Hearn and Rich Morrissey, via Error Report #2375: previously credited to Jack Cole.
Reprinted in PLASTIC MAN ARCHIVES (DC, 1998 series) #6 (September 2004)

6 page Flatfoot Burns story "The Lighthouse"

Characters Flatfoot Burns
Genre humor; detective
Script Al Stahl?
Pencils Al Stahl?
Inks Al Stahl?

6 page Honeybun story "Goodnatured?"

Script Paul Gustavson
Pencils Paul Gustavson
Inks Paul Gustavson

7 page Candy story "Candy and the Pirates"

Characters Candy O'Connor; Uncle Lancelot (Candy's uncle; first appearance)
Genre Teen; Humor
Script Harry Sahle
Pencils Harry Sahle
Inks Harry Sahle

1 page Dewey Drip story "Dewey Drip"

Genre gag
Script Joe Devlin
Pencils Joe Devlin
Inks Joe Devlin
Colors ?

10 page Manhunter story "The Kidnapping of Letha Nordyke"

Characters Manhunter [Dan Richards]
Genre superhero

2 page Dick Mace text story "The Butcher"

Letters typeset
Notes Dick Mace text story.

2 page Specks story "Specks"

Genre Humor
Script Martin Senich
Pencils Martin Senich
Inks Martin Senich

7 page Spirit story "The Uncanny Cat"

Characters Spirit [Denny Colt]
Genre Superhero
Script Bill Woolfolk
Pencils Lou Fine
Inks Lou Fine; Quality Staff
Letters Martin DeMuth
Reprinted from Spirit, The (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #10/8/1944