(September 1941)
Quality Comics,
1941 Series
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 68
- Indicia Frequency
- Monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1941-07-02
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Comic Magazines Inc.
- Brand
-
Quality Comic Group
- Editing
- Ed Cronin (credited as Edward Cronin)
Issue Notes
Copyright 1941 by Comic Magazines, Inc.
The on-sale date is the publication date reported in the U. S. Copyright Office filing.
The on-sale date is the publication date reported in the U. S. Copyright Office filing.
[no title indexed]
Firebrand / cover / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Starring the Firebrand
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- The Firebrand [Rod Reilly]; Plastic Man [Patrick "Eel" O'Brian] (inset); #711 [Daniel Dyce] (inset); The Mouthpiece [Bill Perkins] (inset); The Human Bomb [Roy Lincoln] (inset)
- Reprints
-
in Plastic Man Archives (DC, 1998 series) #1 (1998 [February 1999])
-
Indexer Notes
Art credits verified by Gill Fox.
[The Revolt of General Muerte]
Firebrand / comic story / 11 pages
- Script
- S. M. Iger
- Pencils
- Reed Crandall (signed)
- Inks
- Reed Crandall (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- The Firebrand [Rod Reilly]; "Slugger" Dunn; General Alfredo Muerte (villain)
- Synopsis
- Slugger and Firebrand parachute into the Caribbean nation of Libertad, single-handedly tracking and stopping a coup by General Muerte.
[no title indexed]
#711 / comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- George Brenner (signed as George E. Brenner)
- Pencils
- George Brenner (signed as George E. Brenner)
- Inks
- George Brenner (signed as George E. Brenner)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- A prison's grey walls are witness to a new kind of knight errantry...
- Genre
- adventure; crime; detective-mystery; superhero
- Characters
- #711 [Daniel Dyce]
- Synopsis
- Daniel Dyce, Prisoner #711, serving a term for a crime he didn't commit, learns of criminal plots from convicts. Using an escape tunnel, he exits the prison and uses the information he's gained to take down criminals. A new inmate warns him of a heist by gangster Louie Lutz. #711 brings Lutz to justice.
[The Mosquito Boat Raids]
Eagle Evans / comic story / 7 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Witmer Williams (signed as Clark Williams)
- Inks
- Witmer Williams (signed as Clark Williams)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- detective-mystery; aviation
[no title indexed]
Chic Carter / comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- Vern Henkel (signed)
- Pencils
- Vern Henkel (signed)
- Inks
- Vern Henkel (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Crime and injustice have only one foe...the Sword...
- Genre
- detective-mystery; superhero
- Characters
- Chic Carter [The Sword]; Tamara de Vielle; Sebastian del Ricco
- Synopsis
- Chic is aboard a luxury liner heading for South America. He runs afoul of a murder plot in which he becomes the prime suspect. Carter solves the crime as the Sword and defended the honor of Tamara de Vielle, daughter of the ruler of Brazilia. But, despite his success, Chic is forced to flee from the authorities.
Indexer Notes
Jim Amash and Mike Kooiman, in the Quality Companion, categorically state that The Sword was created by Henkel.
Henkel himself said, in Alter Ego #48, that super-heroes didn't interest him. He was more into adventure stories, like those in the movies; he liked realism. Perhaps this was why Carter appeared in costume as The Sword for only a very short time. Added by Craig Delich 2014-1-3.
[Duelling the Dope Smugglers]
Plastic Man / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- superhero; humor
- Characters
- Plastic Man [Patrick "Eel" O'Brian]; Captain Murphy [aka Captain Murphey] (introduction); Dopey Joe (villain); Cookie (introduction); Senator A. J. Simms (villain)
- Synopsis
- Plastic Man joins the Police.
- Reprints
- in Plastic Man Archives (DC, 1998 series) #1 (1998 [February 1999])
-
[no title indexed]
Dewey Drip / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Lemme go, Maw
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Dewey Drip
[The Hogan Brothers]
The Mouthpiece / comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- Fred Guardineer (signed)
- Pencils
- Fred Guardineer (signed)
- Inks
- Fred Guardineer (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- detective-mystery; superhero
- Characters
- The Mouthpiece [Bill Perkins]; The Hogan Brothers (villains)
Hollywood Stickup
Dick Mace / text story / 2 pages
- Script
- Robert Hyatt (signed)
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- detective-mystery; adventure
- Characters
- Dick Mace
[The Kidnapped Ambassador]
Phantom Lady / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Phantom Lady [Sandra Knight]; Don Borden; Kivoya (Ambassador of Herma); un-named oriental houseboy (villain); Tikoy (villain, thug); un-named Ambassador to Kioland (villain); Todd (villain, ex-Navy man)
- Synopsis
- The Phantom Lady foils a plot by the large Eastern nation of Kioland to gain control over its smaller neighbor Herma by tricking it into declaring war on the United States.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- Black Lantern
in Presenting Burp the Twerp
Burp the Twerp / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Burp the Twerp (introduction)
[Evil on Calona Island]
The Human Bomb / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- The Human Bomb [Roy Lincoln]; Major Adams; the Nazis (villains)
- Synopsis
- Roy gathers up what notes he can from his father's lab and brings them to Major Adams at the War Department. Once again, however, Roy is attacked for his father's secret formula, and he chases the thieves to their underwater lair, where these members of a German suicide squadron conspire to use the formula to destroy eastern seaports.
- Keywords
- 27-QRX
Indexer Notes
Even though the Who's Who doesn't list Gustavson as a writer of the strip, Mike Kooiman and Jim Amash state in the Quality Companion that he created the strip and wrote it, so the question mark with the script credit has been removed by Craig Delich 2013-1-18. Also verified by Gustavson's son, Terry Gustafson.
Letterer credit courtesy of Terry Gustafson, Paul Gustavson's son.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
["Starring the Firebrand"]
Firebrand -
1.
[The Revolt of General Muerte]
Firebrand -
2.
["A prison's grey walls are witness to a new kind of knight errantry..."]
#711 -
3.
Super Snooper
Super Snooper -
4.
[The Mosquito Boat Raids]
Eagle Evans -
5.
["Crime and injustice have only one foe...the Sword..."]
Chic Carter -
6.
[Duelling the Dope Smugglers]
Plastic Man -
7.
["Lemme go, Maw"]
Dewey Drip -
8.
[The Hijacker]
Steele Kerrigan -
9.
[The Hogan Brothers]
The Mouthpiece -
10.
Hollywood Stickup
Dick Mace -
11.
[The Kidnapped Ambassador]
Phantom Lady -
12.
Presenting Burp the Twerp
Burp the Twerp -
13.
[Evil on Calona Island]
The Human Bomb
This issue was modified by, among others
- Henry Andrews
- Craig Delich
- Gregory Fischer
- Michael Hoskin
- Bob Hughes
- Steve Jenner
- R. S. Martin
- Daniel Martinez
- Clint Maxwell
- Mike Nielsen
- Tony R. Rose
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