Plastic Man covers begin. Gil Fox cover and art. Marijuana use story. Paul Gustavson, Fred Guardineer, and Jack Cole stories and art. Reed Crandall art.
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COVER DETAILS
Characters:
Plastic Man [Patrick "Eel" O'Brian]; Firebrand [Rod Reilly] (inset); #711 [Daniel Dyce] (inset); The Human Bomb [Roy Lincoln] (inset); Chic Carter (inset)
Pencils:
Gill Fox
Inks:
Gill Fox
STORY DETAILS
Characters:
Firebrand [Rod Reilly]
Pages:
11.000
Script:
S. M. Iger
Pencils:
Reed Crandall
Inks:
Reed Crandall
Title:
The Brick Bat
Characters:
#711 [Daniel Dyce]; The Brick Bat (villain, introduction)
Synopsis:
Because he was a model prison, Dyce is awarded freedoms, including being a trustee and working in the prison offices where he had access to the daily news. Because of this freedom, he was enabled to dash out of and into the prison, usually under the cover of darkness. On one such venture, he meets his first masked foe, The Brick Bat, who had forced a scientist to create a lethal brick which released a deadly gas upon impact.
Pages:
6.000
Script:
George Brenner [as George E. Brenner] (signed)
Pencils:
George Brenner [as George E. Brenner] (signed)
Inks:
George Brenner [as George E. Brenner] (signed)
Notes:
The Brock Bat's cowl was very similar to that of the Batman's.
Characters:
Dewey Drip
Pages:
1.000
Script:
John Devlin ?
Pencils:
John Devlin
Inks:
John Devlin
Title:
Azores Adventure
Characters:
Eagle Evans
Pages:
7.000
Pencils:
Clark Williams
Inks:
Clark Williams
Title:
The Gambling Syndicate of Tony Fancy
Characters:
Chic Carter [The Sword]; Sgt. Monahan; Gay Nolan (Chic's colleague); Tony Fancy (villain)
Synopsis:
Chic breaks up a gambling racket in order to rescue a fellow newsman, who sees through his Sword disguise.
Pages:
6.000
Script:
Vernon Henkel (signed)
Pencils:
Vernon Henkel (signed)
Inks:
Vernon Henkel (signed)
Notes:
Chic appears as The Sword one final time, wearing a top hat and domino mask instead of his previous yellow and red long johns.
The introductory text states that Chic often becomes the Sword.
Title:
The Return of Madam Brawn
Characters:
Plastic Man [Patrick "Eel" O'Brian]; Captain Murphy [aka Captain Murphey]; Madam Brawn [aka "Kingpin" of Crime] (villain, death); Gassin Gert (villain)
Synopsis:
The cigar-chomping Brawn returns unrepentant, and during a battle, Gassin Gert uses her gas gun and Brawn falls on a spike and dies......but not before Plas revealed his secret identity to her.
Pages:
6.000
Script:
Jack Cole
Pencils:
Jack Cole
Inks:
Jack Cole
Letters:
Jack Cole
Notes:
Original indexer reports Plas being forced to smoke marijuana in this story.
Title:
Super Snooper
Pages:
1.000
Script:
Gill Fox
Pencils:
Gill Fox
Inks:
Gill Fox
Letters:
Gill Fox ?
Title:
Dr. Burgess's Diamond Theft
Pages:
5.000
Pencils:
Al Bryant
Inks:
Al Bryant
Title:
The Madness of Professor Snook
Characters:
The Mouthpiece [Bill Perkins]; Professor Snook (villain, death)
Synopsis:
The Mouthpiece has to track down a gang of brutal thugs, headed by Professor Snook, who took a plunge over a castle wall rather than be captured.
Pages:
6.000
Script:
Fred Guardineer (signed)
Pencils:
Fred Guardineer (signed)
Inks:
Fred Guardineer (signed)
Title:
Vanishing Evidence
Characters:
Dick Mace
Pages:
2.000
Letters:
typeset
Title:
Ortega the Saboteur
Characters:
Phantom Lady [Sandra Knight]; Don Borden; Senator Henry Knight (cameo); un-named U.S. Assistant Secretary of State; Donna Clarrissa Montano (Parador Ambassador's daughter); Lieutenant Yardley (USN Officer); Captain Ortega (villain, Parador Army Officer)
Synopsis:
The Phantom Lady stops a spy from stealing a plane and getting away with valuable information.
Pages:
6.000
Pencils:
Arthur Peddy (signed)
Inks:
Arthur Peddy (signed)
Title:
Suicide Sam
Characters:
Burp the Twerp
Pages:
1.000
Script:
Jack Cole
Pencils:
Jack Cole
Inks:
Jack Cole
Letters:
Jack Cole
Characters:
The Human Bomb [Roy Lincoln]
Pages:
6.000
Script:
Paul Gustavson [as Paul Carrol] (signed)
Pencils:
Paul Gustavson [as Paul Carrol] (signed)
Inks:
Paul Gustavson [as Paul Carol] (signed)
Letters:
Paul Gustavson
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.
Letterer credit from Terry Gustafson, Paul Gustavson's son.
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CGC Census Report*
Grade
NG
PG
CVR
0.5
1.0
1.5
1.8
2.0
2.5
3.0
3.5
4.0
4.5
5.0
5.5
6.0
6.5
7.0
7.5
8.0
8.5
9.0
9.2
9.4
9.6
9.8
9.9
10.0
Total
Universal
0
0
0
1
0
0
0
1
1
1
1
2
2
0
0
4
0
2
0
1
1
1
0
0
1
0
0
0
19
Qualified
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
Signature Series
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
CGCxJSA
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
Restored
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
2
Total
0
0
0
1
0
0
0
2
1
1
1
2
2
1
0
4
0
2
0
1
1
1
0
0
1
0
0
0
21
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