Issue Details

Issue	#5
Published	December 1941
Frequency	Monthly
Cover Price	0.10 USD
Pages	68
Editing	Ed Cronin [as Edward Cronin]
Notes	Copyright 1941 by Comic Magazines, Inc.

Cover Details

Characters	Plastic Man [Eel O'Brian]
Genre	superhero
Pencils	Gill Fox
Inks	Gill Fox
Reprinted	in Plastic Man Archives (DC, 1998 series) #1 (December 1998)

11 page Firebrand story "Framed By Axis Agents"

Characters	Firebrand [Rod Reilly]
Genre	superhero
Script	S. M. Iger
Pencils	Reed Crandall
Inks	Reed Crandall

6 page #711 story "The Brick Bat"

Characters	The Brick Bat (intro; villain)
Genre	superhero
Script	George Brenner
Pencils	George Brenner
Inks	George Brenner

1 page Dewey Drip story "Dewey Drip"

Genre	gag
Script	Joe Devlin
Pencils	Joe Devlin
Inks	Joe Devlin

7 page Eagle Evans story "Azores Adventure"

Genre	detective
Pencils	Clark Williams
Inks	Clark Williams

6 page Chic Carter story "The Gambling Syndicate of Tony Fancy"

Genre	detective
Script	Vernon Henkel
Pencils	Vernon Henkel
Inks	Vernon Henkel

6 page Plastic Man story "The Return of Madam Brawn"

Characters	Plastic Man [Eel O'Brian]; Captain Murphy [also known as Captain Murphey]; VILLAIN: Madam Brawn (dies)
Synopsis	Plas is forced to smoke marijuana.
Genre	superhero
Script	Jack Cole
Pencils	Jack Cole
Inks	Jack Cole
Letters	Jack Cole
Reprinted	in Plastic Man Archives (DC, 1998 series) #1 (December 1998)

1 page Super Snooper story "Super Snooper"

Genre	humor
Script	Gill Fox
Pencils	Gill Fox
Inks	Gill Fox
Letters	Gill Fox ?

5 page Steele Kerrigan story "Dr. Burgess's Diamond Theft"

Genre	detective
Pencils	Al Bryant
Inks	Al Bryant

6 page Mouthpiece story "The Madness of Professor Snook"

Genre	superhero; detective
Script	Fred Guardineer
Pencils	Fred Guardineer
Inks	Fred Guardineer

2 page Dick Mace text story "Vanishing Evidence"

Characters	Dick Mace
Letters	typeset

6 page Phantom Lady story "Ortega the Saboteur"

Characters	Phantom Lady [Sandra Knight]; Don Borden; Senator Henry Knight (cameo)
Synopsis	The Phantom Lady stops a spy from stealing a plane and getting away with valuable information.
Genre	superhero
Pencils	Arthur Peddy
Inks	Arthur Peddy

1 page Burp the Twerp story "Suicide Sam"

Characters	Burp the Twerp
Genre	gag
Script	Jack Cole
Pencils	Jack Cole
Inks	Jack Cole
Letters	Jack Cole

6 page Human Bomb story "The Phony Murder of Col. Stanford"

Characters	Human Bomb [Roy Lincoln]
Genre	superhero
Script	Paul Gustavson
Pencils	Paul Gustavson [Paul Carrol]
Inks	Paul Gustavson