The genius of Jack Cole introduces your flexible friend... (Plastic Man Comics in general)

Member Name: pdillonp

Product:	Plastic Man Comics in general
Date:	16/03/01 (30 review reads)
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Advantages: The genius of Jack Cole at an affordable price.

Disadvantages: Just the shiny paper

So far there are two volumes of DC's Plastic Man archives, reprinting what is probably the funniest superhero of all time. Plastic Man (Plas to his friends) first saw the light of day in Police Comics in 1941 when small time grifter Eel O'Brien took a header into a vat of chemicals and emerged with the power to reshape his body to anything he wanted. He vows to fight crime and jails his former cohorts. His career as anything approaching a serious crime fighter lasted about as long as it took for sidekick Woozy Winks (the luckiest man in the world) to turn up and then began Plas as we love him. A hero that makes the Marx Brothers look like rational upstanding citizens. Plas soon got his own comic and became Quality's best selling title, and it's from Police Comics and Plastic Man that these reprints come. He's been revived with varying degrees of success by DC since Jack Cole killed himself in the late 50s, but nothing matches the originals - the covers by Alex Toth are a fit tribute though. One cavil - I wish DC would use matt paper as they do on the equally wonderful Spirit Archives.
Volume 1 collects Police Comics, Numbers 1-20
Volume 2 collects Police Comics, Numbers 21-30 and Plastic Man, No.1
7x10, hardcovers, colour dustjacket, full colour throughout, 224 pages,

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