(January 1942)
Quality Comics,
1941 Series
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 68
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1941-11-12
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Comic Magazines Inc.
- Brand
-
Quality Comic Group
- Printer
- Printed in U.S.A.
- 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
- Starring Plastic Man new - different!
- Genre
- superhero; humor
- Characters
- Firebrand (inset); Human Bomb [Roy Lincoln] (inset); Phantom Lady [Sandra Knight] (inset); Plastic Man [Eel O'Brian]; The Mouthpiece [Bill Perkins] (inset); #711 [Daniel Dyce] (inset)
- Reprints
-
in Plastic Man Archives (DC, 1998 series) #1 (1998 [February 1999])
-
They Called Him "Stay-at-Home-Sammy" -- but Now He Leads the Gang!
Schwinn Bicycles / comics-form advertising / 1 page
[Dr. Kruger's Hospital Horror]
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 sinister fiend's money lust threatens the lives of America's fighting men.
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Firebrand; Joan Rogers; "Slugger" Dunn; Dr. Kruger (villain); Rudolf; Anton
- Synopsis
- While volunteering at the American Red Cross, Joan discovers that Dr. Kruger has poisoned the blood banks.
- Reprints
- in America's Greatest Comics (AC, 2002 series) #9 ([July] 2004), #9 ([July] 2004) [first page used as cover]
- in Golden-Age Greats Spotlight (AC, 2003 series) #5 (2011)
-
[The Chikka Chipps Contract]
#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
- It is recess hour behind the cold gray walls of Westmoor Prison----
- Genre
- adventure; crime; detective-mystery; superhero
- Characters
- #711 [Daniel Dyce]; Lush Chikko (prisoner, informant); Big Boy Bern; Mike
- Synopsis
- #711 decides to protect the life of one of his inside informants who had testified against a local mob boss.
[no title indexed]
Dewey Drip / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- I'd been married to Lulubelle if thet skonk Dewey Drip hadn't come home from the army camp in thet fancy uniform
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Dewey Drip; Lulubelle; Paul Polecat
- Synopsis
- The Polecat twins try to stop Dewey from marrying Lulubelle.
[Captain Gruber's Sky Wolves]
Eagle Evans / comic story / 7 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Witmer Williams (signed as Clark Williams)
- Inks
- Witmer Williams (signed as Clark Williams)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- The thundering horsepower of four motors drives the huge ship across the storm-tossed south Atlantic.
- Genre
- detective-mystery; aviation
- Characters
- Eagle Evans; Snap Smith; Gruber; Andrews; Franz
- Synopsis
- Eagle and Snap have an adventure in the jungle near Bathurst.
[Veda the Cobra Woman]
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
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- A hypnotic hush falls over the Club Orientale as Veda, a dancer imported from India, goes into her number..
- Genre
- detective-mystery; superhero
- Characters
- Chic Carter; Peter Kane Jr.; Monahan; Peter Kane Sr.; Veda Kane (villain)
- Synopsis
- Peter Kane's new step mother is a Hindu snake dancer with poison lips.
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
Story has similarities to the Cornell Woolrich story Kiss of the Cobra.
[Case of the Disembodied Hands]
Plastic Man / comic story / 6 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Up up up goes Plastic Man's popularity!!
- Genre
- superhero; humor
- Characters
- Plastic Man [Eel O'Brian]; Chubby Rankin (villain); The Man With the Stealing Hands; Tom
- Synopsis
- An unnamed man was cursed by an Indian prince and his hands began stealing. He couldn't stop them from stealing, and eventually cut them off. Eventually, Plas threw them into a furnace to set the man free.
- Reprints
- in Plastic Man Archives (DC, 1998 series) #1 (1998 [February 1999])
-
[no title indexed]
Super Snooper / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- These robot shoes I invented will walk me to the nearest crook!
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Super Snooper
- Synopsis
- Super Snooper tries out his new invention for catching crooks.
[They Stole the Commissioner's Car!]
Steele Kerrigan / comic story / 5 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Accompanied by Anne, his fiancee and loyal co-worker, Steele goes to police headquarters to make his parole report.
- Genre
- detective-mystery
- Characters
- Steele Kerrigan; Anne; Kelly
- Synopsis
- Crooks steal the police commissioner's car and Steele chases after them.
[Grud, Fifth Columnist]
The Mouthpiece / comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- Fred Guardineer (signed)
- Pencils
- Fred Guardineer (signed)
- Inks
- Fred Guardineer (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- I'm gonna need help against this mob!
- Genre
- detective-mystery; superhero
- Characters
- The Mouthpiece [Bill Perkins]; Grud (villain); Clancy; Otto
- Synopsis
- The Mouthpiece hunts down Grud and his gang after they kill a cop.
Blood Will Tell
Dick Mace / text story / 2 pages
- Script
- Robert Hyatt (credited)
- Pencils
- Gill Fox (signed as G. F.) (illustrations)
- Inks
- Gill Fox (signed as G. F.) (illustrations)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- detective-mystery; adventure
- Characters
- Dick Mace; Dr. Idwel Chivers; Masterson; Cranston; Tully Brindell; Murchison; Davis
- Synopsis
- Dick tells how he used psychology to catch a murderer.
[The Autogiro Spies]
Phantom Lady / comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Art Peddy (signed as Arthur Peddy)
- Inks
- Art Peddy (signed as Arthur Peddy)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Sandra and senator Knight arrive at Don Borden's apartment..
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Phantom Lady [Sandra Knight]; Don Borden; Senator Knight; Otto (villain, foreign agent); Max (villain, foreign agent); Karl (villain, foreign agent)
- Synopsis
- Senator Knight and Sandra discover that Don is being held in his apartment by enemy spies for the State Department papers they believe he has or has access to.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- Black Light
in [Defeating the Drought]
Burp the Twerp / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Burp-the-Twerp, you must help us!!
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Burp the Twerp
- Synopsis
- Burp the Twerp has to help farmer's suffering from a drought.
[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
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- In his lab, Roy Lincoln, partly clad as the Human Bomb, paces up and down...
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- The Human Bomb [Roy Lincoln]; Jean Adams [formerly Jean Caldwell]; The Black Vanguards (villains, introduction for all)
- Synopsis
- Impatient with Roy's frequent disappearances, Jean nearly sees his face when he changes into the Human Bomb to battle the Black Vanguards, a Nazi group, that is brought down, not by the use of 27-QRX, but a standalone chemical.
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.
["Starring Plastic Man new - different!"]
Plastic Man -
1.
They Called Him "Stay-at-Home-Sammy" -- but Now He Leads the Gang!
Schwinn Bicycles -
2.
[Dr. Kruger's Hospital Horror]
Firebrand -
3.
[The Chikka Chipps Contract]
#711 -
4.
["I'd been married to Lulubelle if thet skonk Dewey Drip hadn't come home from the army camp in thet fancy uniform"]
Dewey Drip -
5.
[Captain Gruber's Sky Wolves]
Eagle Evans -
6.
[Veda the Cobra Woman]
Chic Carter -
7.
[Case of the Disembodied Hands]
Plastic Man -
8.
["These robot shoes I invented will walk me to the nearest crook!"]
Super Snooper -
9.
[They Stole the Commissioner's Car!]
Steele Kerrigan -
10.
[Grud, Fifth Columnist]
The Mouthpiece -
11.
Blood Will Tell
Dick Mace -
12.
[The Autogiro Spies]
Phantom Lady -
13.
[Defeating the Drought]
Burp the Twerp -
14.
["In his lab, Roy Lincoln, partly clad as the Human Bomb, paces up and down..."]
The Human Bomb -
15.
["Ready for Christmas"]
Daisy Air Rifles / Daisy B-B Guns -
16.
["O. K. fellows! Here they are!"]
Electric Football [Jim Prentice]
This issue was modified by, among others
- Craig Delich
- Gregory Fischer
- Katy Hayhurst
- Michael Hoskin
- Bob Hughes
- Mike Madrid
- R. S. Martin
- Daniel Martinez
- Clint Maxwell
- Keith Alan Morgan
- Lou Mougin (R.I.P.)
- Mike Nielsen
- Tony R. Rose
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