(December 1941)
Quality Comics,
1941 Series
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 68
- Indicia Frequency
- Monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1941-10-10
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Comic Magazines Inc.
- Brand
-
Quality Comic Group
- Editing
- Ed Cronin (credited as Edward Cronin) (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
- With Plastic Man new comic sensation
- Genre
- superhero; humor
- Characters
- Plastic Man [Patrick "Eel" O'Brian]; Firebrand [Rod Reilly] (inset); #711 [Daniel Dyce] (inset); The Human Bomb [Roy Lincoln] (inset); Chic Carter (inset)
- Reprints
-
in Plastic Man Archives (DC, 1998 series) #1 (1998 [February 1999])
-
[no title indexed]
Firebrand / comic story / 11 pages
- Script
- S. M. Iger
- Pencils
- Reed Crandall (signed)
- Inks
- Reed Crandall (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- A plague of violent sabotage terrorizes cities on the eastern seaboard...
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Firebrand [Rod Reilly]
[The Brick Bat]
#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
- ?
- Genre
- adventure; crime; detective-mystery; superhero
- Characters
- #711 [Daniel Dyce]; The Brick Bat (villain, introduction)
- Synopsis
- Because he was a model prison, Dyce is awarded freedoms, including being a trustee and working in the prison offices where he had access to the daily news. Because of this freedom, he was enabled to dash out of and into the prison, usually under the cover of darkness. On one such venture, he meets his first masked foe, The Brick Bat, who had forced a scientist to create a lethal brick which released a deadly gas upon impact.
Indexer Notes
The Brock Bat's cowl was very similar to that of the Batman's.
[no title indexed]
Dewey Drip / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Maw! Paw!- It's me!- Ah'm home!
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Dewey Drip
[Azores Adventure]
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
- Characters
- Eagle Evans
[The Gambling Syndicate of Tony Fancy]
Chic Carter / comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- Vern Henkel (signed as Vernon Henkel)
- Pencils
- Vern Henkel (signed as Vernon Henkel)
- Inks
- Vern Henkel (signed as Vernon Henkel)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- detective-mystery; superhero
- Characters
- Chic Carter [The Sword]; Sgt. Monahan; Gay Nolan (Chic's colleague); Tony Fancy (villain)
- Synopsis
- Chic breaks up a gambling racket in order to rescue a fellow newsman, who sees through his Sword disguise.
Indexer Notes
Chic appears as The Sword one final time, wearing a top hat and domino mask instead of his previous yellow and red long johns.
The introductory text states that Chic often becomes the Sword.
[The Return of Madam Brawn]
Plastic Man / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- superhero; humor
- Characters
- Plastic Man [Patrick "Eel" O'Brian]; Captain Murphy [aka Captain Murphey]; Madam Brawn [aka "Kingpin" of Crime] (villain, death); Gassin Gert (villain)
- Synopsis
- The cigar-chomping Brawn returns unrepentant, and during a battle, Gassin Gert uses her gas gun and Brawn falls on a spike and dies......but not before Plas revealed his secret identity to her.
- Reprints
- in Plastic Man Archives (DC, 1998 series) #1 (1998 [February 1999])
-
Indexer Notes
Original indexer reports Plas being forced to smoke marijuana in this story.
[The Madness of Professor Snook]
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]; Professor Snook (villain, death)
- Synopsis
- The Mouthpiece has to track down a gang of brutal thugs, headed by Professor Snook, who took a plunge over a castle wall rather than be captured.
[Ortega the Saboteur]
Phantom Lady / comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Art Peddy (signed as Arthur Peddy)
- Inks
- Art Peddy (signed as Arthur Peddy)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Phantom Lady [Sandra Knight]; Don Borden; Senator Henry Knight (cameo); un-named U.S. Assistant Secretary of State; Donna Clarrissa Montano (Parador Ambassador's daughter); Lieutenant Yardley (USN Officer); Captain Ortega (villain, Parador Army Officer)
- Synopsis
- The Phantom Lady stops a spy from stealing a plane and getting away with valuable information.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- Black Light; Clipper Club; U.S. Aircraft Carrier "Atlanta"
in [no title indexed]
The Human Bomb / comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- Paul Gustavson (signed as Paul Carrol)
- Pencils
- Paul Gustavson (signed as Paul Carrol)
- Inks
- Paul Gustavson (signed as Paul Carrol)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Paul Gustavson (signed as Paul Carrol) (sourced)
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- We find Roy Lincoln and his fiancee, Jean Adams, at a diplomat's ball in Washington.
- 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.
Editing
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Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
["With Plastic Man new comic sensation"]
Plastic Man -
1.
["A plague of violent sabotage terrorizes cities on the eastern seaboard..."]
Firebrand -
2.
[The Brick Bat]
#711 -
3.
["Maw! Paw!- It's me!- Ah'm home!"]
Dewey Drip -
4.
[Azores Adventure]
Eagle Evans -
5.
[The Gambling Syndicate of Tony Fancy]
Chic Carter -
6.
[The Return of Madam Brawn]
Plastic Man -
7.
Super Snooper
Super Snooper -
8.
[Dr. Burgess's Diamond Theft]
Steele Kerrigan -
9.
[The Madness of Professor Snook]
The Mouthpiece -
10.
Vanishing Evidence
Dick Mace -
11.
[Ortega the Saboteur]
Phantom Lady -
12.
[Suicide Sam]
Burp the Twerp -
13.
["We find Roy Lincoln and his fiancee, Jean Adams, at a diplomat's ball in Washington."]
The Human Bomb
This issue was modified by, among others
- Henry Andrews
- Craig Delich
- Gregory Fischer
- Michael Hoskin
- Bob Hughes
- R. S. Martin
- Daniel Martinez
- Clint Maxwell
- Mike Nielsen
- Tony R. Rose
- Jonathan Sari
- Ramon Schenk
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