(November-December 1967)

DC, 1966 Series
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Price
0.12 USD
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
bi-monthly
On-sale Date
1967-09-21
Publisher's Age Guidelines
Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
National Periodical Publications Inc.
Brand
Superman DC National Comics
Editing
Murray Boltinoff (editor)

Issue Notes

On-sale date from copyright registration, confirmed by contemporary Direct Currents.

Plastic Man's Fantastic Old Man! (Table of Contents)

Plastic Man / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Carmine Infantino
Inks
Mike Esposito
Colors
?
Letters
Ira Schnapp

Genre
humor; superhero
Characters
Plastic Man [Eels O'Brien]
Universe
DC : Earth-Twelve (Pre-Crisis)
Keywords
gorilla

Plastic Man's Fantastic Old Man! (Table of Contents: 1)

Plastic Man / comic story / 21.5 pages (report information)

Script
Arnold Drake
Pencils
Win Mortimer
Inks
Win Mortimer
Colors
?
Letters
Ira Schnapp

Genre
superhero; humor
Characters
Plastic Man [Eels O'Brien] (first appearance, origin recap); Plastic Man [O'Brien, Jr.] (origin); Gordon K. Trueblood; Woozy Winks (first appearance); Mrs. O'Brien (Eels O'Brien's wife, Plas Junior's mother, first appearance in flashback); the King of Spades; the Queen of Hearts; the Jack of Diamonds; Miss Stankard; Sedgewick; Mrs. Brattle
Universe
DC : Earth-Twelve (Pre-Crisis)

Indexer Notes

Story across 23 page, but pages 8, 16, and 23 are 1/2-pages.

Final page states that it's "dedicated to all who demanded a Woozy Winks yarn -- especially to Marvin Von Wolfman who inspired it!". Presumably this is Marv Wolfman who started working at DC the next year.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 2)

Little Pete / comic story / 0.5 page (report information)

Script
Henry Boltinoff (signed)
Pencils
Henry Boltinoff (signed)
Inks
Henry Boltinoff (signed)
Colors
?
Letters
?

First Line of Dialogue or Text
I won't ask him.
Genre
humor; children
Characters
Pete; Bill; Orvie

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 3)

Cap's Hobby Hints / activity / 0.5 page (report information)

Script
Henry Boltinoff (signed)
Pencils
Henry Boltinoff (signed)
Inks
Henry Boltinoff (signed)
Colors
?
Letters
?

Job Number
6569
First Line of Dialogue or Text
My dad told me how to make my own carpenter's level.
Genre
non-fiction

Indexer Notes

Idea from Aeva Godden, Topeka, Kansas.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 4) (Expand) /

Direct Currents / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

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

From Plastic Man's Pen Pals / letters page / 1 page (report information)

Script
Murray Boltinoff
Pencils
Win Mortimer ? (illustration)
Inks
Win Mortimer ? (illustration)
Colors
?
Letters
typeset

Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. Plastic Man's Fantastic Old Man!
    Plastic Man
  2. 1. Plastic Man's Fantastic Old Man!
    Plastic Man
  3. 2. ["I won't ask him."]
    Little Pete
  4. 3. ["My dad told me how to make my own carpenter's level."]
    Cap's Hobby Hints
  5. 4. [no title indexed]
    Direct Currents
  6. 5. [no title indexed]
    From Plastic Man's Pen Pals
This issue was modified by, among others
  • Katie
  • Dwayne Best
  • Nick Caputo
  • John Censullo
  • Peter Croome
  • Kirk House
  • Per Sandell
  • Jim Stangas
  • Jim Van Dore