(July 1948)

Quality Comics, 1943 Series
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Price
0.10 USD
Pages
52
Indicia Frequency
Bi-monthly
On-sale Date
1948-04-21
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
Comic Magazines
Brand
Quality Comic Group
Editing
George Brenner (credited as George E. Brenner) (editor); Busy Arnold (credited as Everett M. Arnold) (business manager, publisher)

Issue Notes

On sale date from the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Periodicals, 1948. The copyright record gives an incorrect cover date of "Summer". Both the indicia and the cover say "July".

[Plastic Man Gets Caught in the Grip of The Spademan] (Table of Contents)

Plastic Man / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Jack Cole
Inks
Jack Cole
Colors
?
Letters
?

Genre
superhero; humor
Characters
Plastic Man [Patrick "Eel" O'Brian]; Woozy Winks; The Spademan

[Spadehead] (Table of Contents: 1)

Plastic Man / comic story / 12 pages (report information)

Script
Bill Woolfolk
Pencils
Jack Cole
Inks
Jack Spranger ?
Colors
?
Letters
?

Genre
superhero; humor
Characters
Plastic Man [Patrick "Eel" O'Brian]; Woozy Winks; Doctor Vineyard (introduction); Spadehead (villain, introduction)
Keywords
anti-rubber serum

Indexer Notes

Woolfolk credit from Martin O'Hearn, at http://martinohearn.blogspot.com/
Writer's credit formerly given as Jack Cole.

Riverman (Table of Contents: 2)

Plastic Man / comic story / 11 pages (report information)

Script
Bill Woolfolk
Pencils
Jack Cole
Inks
André LeBlanc ?
Colors
?
Letters
?

Genre
superhero; humor
Characters
Plastic Man [Patrick "Eel" O'Brian]; Woozy Winks; Lorraine Miller (introduction); Riverman (villain, introduction)
Synopsis
Plas must face the Riverman, a horrible freak who sported fins, claws and webbed feet, who made the river his home, and who was the last of his kind: humans born with gills and banished to the deep.
Reprints

Dr. Screwball's Backward Brew (Table of Contents: 3)

Woozy Winks / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Bart Tumey ?
Inks
Bart Tumey ?
Colors
?
Letters
?

Genre
humor
Characters
Woozy Winks; Doctor Screwball; Genius (introduction); Bush and Ambush (villains, introduction for both)
Keywords
Doctor Screwball's Backward Brew; The Mope Diamond

Fire Sign (Table of Contents: 4)

Plastic Man / text story / 1.67 pages (report information)

Script
?
Letters
typeset

Genre
superhero; humor
Characters
Plastic Man [Patrick "Eel" O'Brian]; Woozy Winks; Clyde Runyan

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 5)

statement of ownership / 0.33 page (report information)

Script
Busy Arnold (credited as Everett M. Arnold) (publisher)
Letters
typeset

[Horseface] (Table of Contents: 6)

Plastic Man / comic story / 14 pages (report information)

Script
Joe Millard
Pencils
?
Inks
?
Colors
?
Letters
?

Genre
superhero; humor
Characters
Plastic Man [Patrick "Eel" O'Brian]; Woozy Winks; Horseface (villain, introduction)
Keywords
horse racing; hypnosis
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. [Plastic Man Gets Caught in the Grip of The Spademan]
    Plastic Man
  2. 1. [Spadehead]
    Plastic Man
  3. 2. Riverman
    Plastic Man
  4. 3. Dr. Screwball's Backward Brew
    Woozy Winks
  5. 4. Fire Sign
    Plastic Man
  6. 5. [no title indexed]
  7. 6. [Horseface]
    Plastic Man
This issue was modified by, among others
  • Doug Brain
  • John Censullo
  • Craig Delich
  • Jason Fetterley
  • Gregory Fischer
  • Merlin Haas
  • Michael Hoskin
  • Lou Mougin (R.I.P.)
  • Len Wolinsky