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Issue Details

Issue	#53
Published	April 1946
Cover Price	0.10 USD
Pages	60
Editing	George Brenner

Cover Details

Characters	Plastic Man [Eel O'Brian]; Woozy Winks
Genre	Superhero
Pencils	Jack Cole
Inks	Jack Cole
Reprinted	in PLASTIC MAN ARCHIVES (DC, 1998 series) #5 (September 2003)

15 page Plastic Man story "The Evil Genius of Dr. Erudite"

Characters	Plastic Man [Eel O'Brian]; Woozy Winks; VILLAIN: Dr. Erudite (first appearance)
Synopsis	Dr. Erudite clones a double of himself to help him commit crimes.
Genre	Superhero
Script	Jack Cole
Pencils	Jack Cole
Inks	Jack Cole
Letters	Jack Cole
Reprinted	in PLASTIC MAN ARCHIVES (DC, 1998 series) #5 (September 2003)

6 page Flatfoot Burns story "Sweet Sleep"

Characters	Flatfoot Burns
Genre	humor; detective
Script	Al Stahl
Pencils	Al Stahl
Inks	Al Stahl

6 page Human Bomb story "Caverns of Crime"

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

7 page Candy story "Van Jackson"

Characters	Candy O'Connor
Genre	Teen; Humor
Script	Harry Sahle
Pencils	Harry Sahle
Inks	Harry Sahle

1 page Dewey Drip story "Dewey Drip"

Genre	gag
Script	Joe Devlin
Pencils	Joe Devlin
Inks	Joe Devlin

2 page text story "Death At the Horse Show"

Genre	Crime
Letters	typeset
Notes	Dick Mace text story.

10 page Manhunter story "Dazeen, Master of Illusion"

Characters	Manhunter [Dan Richards]; VILLAIN: Dazeen (first appearance)
Genre	superhero
Pencils	Al Bryant
Inks	Al Bryant

1 page Burp the Twerp story "Package Delivery"

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

8 page Spirit story "Murder on the Job"

Characters	Spirit [Denny Colt]
Genre	Superhero
Script	Bill Woolfolk
Pencils	Lou Fine
Inks	Quality Staff
Letters	Martin DeMuth
Reprinted	from Spirit, The (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #9/26/1943