(February 1942)
Quality Comics,
1941 Series
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 68
- Indicia Frequency
- Monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1941-12-12
- 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
- Featuring Plastic Man
- Genre
- superhero; humor
- Characters
- Plastic Man [Patrick "Eel" O'Brian]; Firebrand [Rod Reilly] (inset); Phantom Lady [Sandra Knight] (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])
-
[The Rescue of Sir Fallon Farnsworth]
Firebrand / comic story / 11 pages
- Script
- S. M. Iger
- Pencils
- Reed Crandall (signed)
- Inks
- Reed Crandall (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Firebrand [Rod Reilly]; Joan Rogers; "Slugger" Dunn; Sir Falcon Farnsworth; un-named Nazi spies (villains)
- Synopsis
- Joan and Slugger are kidnapped by a group of Nazi spies who are after Rod's British friend, Sir Falcon Farnsworth.
[The Escape Racket of Drippy Drew]
#711 / comic story / 6 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]; un-named prison warden; Dripy Drew (villain, prison inmate)
- Synopsis
- #711 manages to stop a large scale prison break from within, but his cover was nearly blown after meeting with the prison warden. Only some quick talking gets him out of that jam.
[no title indexed]
Dewey Drip / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Now, y'sure y'got your part in this war game figgered out, hillbilly?
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Dewey Drip
[no title indexed]
Eagle Evans / comic story / 7 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Witmer Williams (under house name Clark Williams) (signed)
- Inks
- Witmer Williams (under house name Clark Williams) (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Eagle and Snap enter a Chinese laundry.
- Genre
- detective-mystery; aviation
- Characters
- Eagle Evans
Death Walks in Littletown
Chic Carter / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- detective-mystery; superhero
- Characters
- Chic Carter; Monahan; The Hangman [Henry] (villain, introduction, death); Judge Henry (villain, introduction))
- Synopsis
- Dressed in a monk's robe and carrying a noose, the Hangman goes on a murderous rampage.
The United Crooks of America
Plastic Man / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- superhero; humor
- Characters
- Plastic Man [Patrick "Eel" O'Brian]; Captain Murphy [aka Captain Murphey]; United Crooks of America [Slug; Slim; Ape Ellson; Trigger Jones] (villains)
- Synopsis
- Eel infiltrates the United Crooks of America by stealing some furs. But one wiseguy opposed Eel's joining when he noticed that all of O'Brien's other gang buddies wound up in jail.
- Reprints
- in Plastic Man Archives (DC, 1998 series) #1 (1998 [February 1999])
-
[The Kid 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]
[Statement of Ownership, Management, and Circulation]
statement of ownership / 1 page
- Script
- Busy Arnold (publisher)
- Letters
- typeset
Indexer Notes
Incorrect statement published. This is for Military Comics:
Comic Magazines, Inc. 322 Main St Stamford Ct.
William E. Eisner, Editor 5 Prospect Place, New York, NY
Everett M. Arnold Managing Editor 198 Shore Rd, Old Greenwich, Conn
Owners: Everett M. Arnold, Old Greenwich, CT;, Henry P. Martin, Jr. Des Moines, IO
Printed at Buffalo NY.
[no title indexed]
Phantom Lady / comic story / 6 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- A great war-relief masquerade is in full swing at the Anglican embassy.
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Phantom Lady [Sandra Knight]; Don Borden; Sir Edward Hendville (Anglican Purchasing Commission member, death); Noel (villain)
- Synopsis
- The Phantom Lady, present when a member of the Anglican Purchasing Commission (dressed in a lion tamer's costume) is murdered, notes a fleeing felon carrying a briefcase, also dressed in a lion costume. She follows him to the zoo and apprehends him and his pals, plus the briefcase, which contains valuable Anglican state papers.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- Black Beam (aka Black Cone); Washington Zoo
in [The World's Strongest Man]
Burp the Twerp / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Burp the Twerp
[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
- One night as Roy Lincoln and his fiancee Jean are walking along a Washington street...
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- The Human Bomb [Roy Lincoln]; un-named newsboy; imposter Human Bomb (villain)
- Synopsis
- Roy is forced to reveal his true identity as the Human Bomb to a young newspaper boy who then helps him track down a phony Human Bomb.
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, conurs.
Letters credit from Terry Gustafson, Paul Gustavson's son.
Editing
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Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
["Featuring Plastic Man"]
Plastic Man -
1.
[The Rescue of Sir Fallon Farnsworth]
Firebrand -
2.
[The Escape Racket of Drippy Drew]
#711 -
3.
["Now, y'sure y'got your part in this war game figgered out, hillbilly?"]
Dewey Drip -
4.
["Eagle and Snap enter a Chinese laundry."]
Eagle Evans -
5.
Death Walks in Littletown
Chic Carter -
6.
The United Crooks of America
Plastic Man -
7.
[no title indexed]
Super Snooper -
8.
[The Plot of Big Dorf Snyder]
Steele Kerrigan -
9.
[The Kid Brothers]
The Mouthpiece -
10.
Wings over the Moon
Dick Mace -
11.
[Statement of Ownership, Management, and Circulation]
-
12.
["A great war-relief masquerade is in full swing at the Anglican embassy."]
Phantom Lady -
13.
[The World's Strongest Man]
Burp the Twerp -
14.
["One night as Roy Lincoln and his fiancee Jean are walking along a Washington street..."]
The Human Bomb
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- Craig Delich
- Gregory Fischer
- Michael Hoskin
- Bob Hughes
- R. S. Martin
- Daniel Martinez
- Clint Maxwell
- Mike Nielsen
- Tony R. Rose
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