(March 1942)
Quality Comics,
1941 Series
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 68
- Indicia Frequency
- Monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1942-01-09
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Comic Magazines Inc.
- Brand
-
Quality Comic Group
- Editing
- Gill Fox (editor)
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]
Plastic Man / cover / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- He's new!... He's great!...
- Genre
- superhero; humor
- Characters
- Plastic Man [Patrick "Eel" O'Brian]; Firebrand [Rod Reilly] (inset); #711 [Daniel Dyce] (inset); The Human Bomb [Roy Lincoln] (inset); Phantom Lady [Sandra Knight] (inset); The Mouthpiece [Bill Perkins] (inset)
- Reprints
-
in Plastic Man Archives (DC, 1998 series) #1 (1998 [February 1999])
-
[Firebrand Joins the Navy]
Firebrand / comic story / 9 pages
- Script
- S. M. Iger
- Pencils
- Reed Crandall (signed)
- Inks
- Reed Crandall (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Firebrand [Rod Reilly]; "Slugger" Dunn; the Nazis (villains)
- Synopsis
- Rod and Slugger join the U.S. Navy Reserve and were assigned duty aboard the destroyer "Russell", and their mission was to escort a British vessel safely across the ocean.
- Reprints
- in Golden-Age Greats Spotlight (AC, 2003 series) #2 (2002), #5 (2011)
-
- Keywords
- The "Russell"
[The Van Deth Brothers]
The Mouthpiece / comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- Fred Guardineer (signed)
- Pencils
- Fred Guardineer (signed)
- Inks
- Fred Guardineer (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- detective-mystery; superhero
- Characters
- The Mouthpiece [Bill Perkins]; Skul Van Deth (villain, death); Morbidd Van Deth (villain)
- Synopsis
- The Mouthpiece catches up with the Van Deth Brothers in the act of disposing of a body, and, in the ensuing chase, Skul dies after tumbling from a rooftop.
[The Plane Hijacking Scheme]
Eagle Evans / comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Witmer Williams (under house name Clark Williams) (signed)
- Inks
- Witmer Williams (under house name Clark Williams) (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- detective-mystery; aviation
- Characters
- Eagle Evans
[no title indexed]
Dewey Drip / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Company -- attention! Fix Bayonets!
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Dewey Drip
[The Jewelry Store Frameup]
Steele Kerrigan / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- detective-mystery
- Characters
- Steele Kerrigan
[The Origin of Manhunter]
Manhunter / comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- Tex Blaisdell (signed)
- Pencils
- Alex Kotzky (signed)
- Inks
- Alex Kotzky (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Manhunter [Dan Richards, aka Donald Richards] (introduction, origin); Thor (his dog); Jim Kelly; Kit Kelly (Dan's lady friend); Jim Kelly (Kit's brother); Al Armand; Johnny Cosentino (villain)
- Synopsis
- When Dan's girlfriend's brother is wrongly accused of murder, he becomes the Manhunter to straighten things out.
Indexer Notes
Manhunter's calling card, left at the end of the story, is in the shape of a shoe print (the same as his chest emblem).
[The Sinister Eight Ball]
Plastic Man / comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- Jack Cole (signed)
- Pencils
- Jack Cole (signed)
- Inks
- Jack Cole (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Jack Cole (signed)
- Genre
- superhero; humor
- Characters
- Plastic Man [Patrick "Eel" O'Brian]; Professor McSneer (villain, introduction)
- Synopsis
- Plastic Man stops Professor McSneer's invention, the Eight Ball, which is a rolling destructive machine that attracts precious metals.
- Reprints
- in Plastic Man Archives (DC, 1998 series) #1 (1998 [February 1999])
-
[The Light of the Orient]
Chic Carter / comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- Vern Henkel (signed)
- Pencils
- Vern Henkel (signed)
- Inks
- Vern Henkel (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- detective-mystery; superhero
- Characters
- Chic Carter; Wu Lan; Po San; Monahan; Mrs. Croft; Barbara Croft; Jerry Croft; Thomas Croft
- Synopsis
- Murderous doings around an old Chinese jewel.
[The Education of Butcher Bowes]
#711 / comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- George Brenner (signed)
- Pencils
- George Brenner (signed)
- Inks
- George Brenner (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- adventure; crime; detective-mystery; superhero
- Characters
- #711 [Daniel Dyce]; Butcher Bowes (villain)
Seven Strokes of Doom
Dick Mace / text story / 2 pages
- Genre
- detective-mystery; adventure
- Characters
- Dick Mace
[no title indexed]
Phantom Lady / comic story / 6 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Sandra, the senator and Don arrive in Havana, Cuba, to investigate subversive activities of European tourists.
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Phantom Lady [Sandra Knight]; Don Borden; Senator Knight; un-named Secret Service Chief; Otto (villain); Shlacht (villain); Louie (villain); Hugo (villain); Colonel Trapilla (villain, Cuban Police Chief)
- Synopsis
- Don and Sandra travel to Cuba to investigate subversive activities of European tourists. What they discover is a plan to mine the waters between Cuba and Florida in order to prevent U.S. interference in an attempt to occupy Cuba.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- Black Light; S.S. Wittmer
in [no title indexed]
The Human Bomb / comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- Paul Gustavson (signed)
- Pencils
- Paul Gustavson (signed)
- Inks
- Paul Gustavson (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Paul Gustavson
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Roy...that's...that's Major Linwood!
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- The Human Bomb [Roy Lincoln]
Indexer Notes
Mike Kooiman and Jim Amash state in the Quality Companion that Gustavson created the strip and wrote it. Gustavson's son, Terry Gustafson, concurs.
Letters credit from Terry Gustafson, Paul Gustavson's son.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
["He's new!... He's great!..."]
Plastic Man -
1.
[Firebrand Joins the Navy]
Firebrand -
2.
[The Van Deth Brothers]
The Mouthpiece -
3.
[The Plane Hijacking Scheme]
Eagle Evans -
4.
["Company -- attention! Fix Bayonets!"]
Dewey Drip -
5.
[The Jewelry Store Frameup]
Steele Kerrigan -
6.
[The Origin of Manhunter]
Manhunter -
7.
[The Sinister Eight Ball]
Plastic Man -
8.
[The Light of the Orient]
Chic Carter -
9.
Super Snooper
Super Snooper -
10.
[The Education of Butcher Bowes]
#711 -
11.
Seven Strokes of Doom
Dick Mace -
12.
["Sandra, the senator and Don arrive in Havana, Cuba, to investigate subversive activities of European tourists."]
Phantom Lady -
13.
[Gigolo Jones]
Burp the Twerp -
14.
["Roy...that's...that's Major Linwood!"]
The Human Bomb
This issue was modified by, among others
- Katie
- Craig Delich
- Gregory Fischer
- Matthew Head
- Michael Hoskin
- Bob Hughes
- R. S. Martin
- Daniel Martinez
- Clint Maxwell
- Lou Mougin (R.I.P.)
- Mike Nielsen
- Tony R. Rose
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