Issue: #20
Published: July 1943, Price: 0.10 USD, Pages: 68, Editing: John Beardsley
Color: Color Dimensions: Standard Golden Age US Paper Stock: Glossy Covers; Newsprint Interiors Binding: Saddle-stitched Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series
Notes: Copyright 1943 by Comic Magazines.The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1943, New Series, Vol. 38, No. 3.
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| Advertisement (1 page) |
How Well Do You Know Our War Weapons? |
| Featuring: |
Bendix |
| Credits: |
Letters: typeset |
| Comic Story (15 pages) |
Woozy Winks Detective Agency |
| Featuring: |
Plastic Man |
| Synopsis: |
Cole writes himself into the story as a stuttering dweeb: a dream tale in which the heroes are knocked out by an explosion. Then Woozy instructs Cole to draw the faces of crooks Abba and Dabba for a "wanted" poster while Plastic Man dreams of Woozy Winks and Jack Cole teaming up to stop the two villains. Cole's un-named and obscured publisher frees him from the crooks. |
| Credits: |
Script: Jack Cole | Pencils: Jack Cole | Inks: Jack Cole | Letters: Jack Cole |
| Genre: |
Superhero |
| Characters: |
Plastic Man [Patrick "Eel" O'Brian] Woozy Winks Jack Cole "Busy" Arnold Abba (villain, Introduction) Dabba (villain, Introduction) |
| Comic Story (1 page) |
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| Featuring: |
Dewey Drip |
| Synopsis: |
Dewey tries to figure out how to do the handshake twist. |
| Credits: |
Script: Bernard Dibble ? | Pencils: Bernard Dibble | Inks: Bernard Dibble |
| Genre: |
Humor Military |
| Characters: |
Dewey Drip Sergeant General Governor |
| Comic Story (6 pages) |
Enter: The Raven |
| Featuring: |
Phantom Lady |
| Synopsis: |
After three attempts being made on Senator Knight's life, Phantom Lady decides to find out, once and for all, who is behind these attempts. Having been told that her Dad is being held captive on the docks, she soon confronts the mysterious boss behind the kidnapping and that this man also holds The Raven captive. |
| Credits: |
Pencils: Frank Borth [as Frank M. Borth] (signed) | Inks: Frank Borth [as Frank M. Borth] (signed) |
| Genre: |
Superhero |
| Characters: |
Phantom Lady [Sandra Knight] Senator Harold H. Knight The Raven [Tony Grey] The Boss (villain) Spike (villain) |
| Comic Story (1 page) |
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| Featuring: |
Super Snooper |
| Synopsis: |
Some crooks steal some apples from a fruit stand. |
| Credits: |
Script: Gill Fox | Pencils: Gill Fox | Inks: Gill Fox | Letters: Gill Fox ? |
| Genre: |
Humor |
| Characters: |
Super Snooper Luigi Soapy |
| Comic Story (1 page) |
Burp's One Weakness |
| Featuring: |
Burp the Twerp |
| Synopsis: |
Crooks try to find Burp's weakness so they can rob the bank. |
| Credits: |
Script: Jack Cole | Pencils: Jack Cole | Inks: Jack Cole | Letters: Jack Cole |
| Genre: |
Humor |
| Characters: |
Burp The Twerp |
| Comic Story (8 pages) |
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| Featuring: |
The Human Bomb |
| Synopsis: |
The captain of a ferry decides to take the boat out into the Pacific for a change. |
| Credits: |
Script: Paul Gustavson | Pencils: Paul Gustavson | Inks: Paul Gustavson | Letters: Paul Gustavson |
| Genre: |
Superhero |
| Characters: |
Captain Larson The Human Bomb [Roy Lincoln] |
| Advertisement (1 page) |
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| Featuring: |
Knickerbocker Publishing Co. |
| Credits: |
Letters: typeset |
| Advertisement (1 page) |
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| Featuring: |
Baby Ruth |
| Credits: |
Letters: typeset |
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