Plastic Man
by Jack Cole / Quality Comics
Jack Cole's stretchable crimefighter and his bumbling pal Woozy Winks bend, bounce and disguise their way past a body swapper, gangsters and nursery rhyme crooks in the first six issues of Quality's 1940s Plastic Man.
6 issues306 pages2,004 panelsRead aloud, with sound
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Start herePlastic Man #1 (1943)A gang of crooks called the Chance Club, a stolen camouflage machine and a gold mine map Woozy gets conned into buying. Plastic Man #1 (Quality, 1943) collects four Jack Cole stories: Plas and Woozy Winks break up the…
Plastic Man #2 (1944)A whole city made over to look like the 1890s, and a crook who can swap bodies picks Woozy. Plastic Man #2 (Quality, August 1944) has four Jack Cole stories: "The Gay Nineties Nightmare," Elmer Body in "Who's Who,"…
Plastic Man #3 (1946)Who killed Snoopy Hawks? Plastic Man #3 (Quality, Spring 1946) opens with that murder mystery, then has B.T. Tokus plot to kill Plas and a gang hide inside a whale.
Plastic Man #4 (1946)A lumberman hit on the head by a tree now believes he is a Viking. Plastic Man #4 (Quality, Summer 1946) has "The Purple Viking," "King Lughead, the First," where Lughead Sykes declares himself King of Takahatchee, and…
Plastic Man #5 (1946)A talented weapon maker, a villain called Hate, and a millionaire willing to kill to get his money back. Plastic Man #5 (Quality, Autumn 1946) collects "They Called Him Weapons," "The Mysterious Being Called Hate" and…
Plastic Man #6 (1947)A crook in nursery rhyme costumes and a criminal who gets the power to leap like a grasshopper. Plastic Man #6 (Quality, Winter 1947) has "The Moon Wizard," where Scientific Sherman hunts for ways to destroy Plas, "The…
About Plastic Man
Plastic Man was created by writer-artist Jack Cole and first appeared in Police Comics #1 (August 1941), published by Quality Comics. Eel O'Brian, a crook abandoned by his gang during the burglary of a chemical plant, finds the chemicals have changed him so that he can stretch his body into any shape, and he turns to fighting crime. In Police Comics #13 (November 1942) Plas gained a comic-relief sidekick, Woozy Winks, a bumbling small-time crook whose personality was based on the comedy of Lou Costello. Plastic Man got his own title in 1943, and Quality's solo series ran 64 issues, from 1943 to 1956.
The first two issues carry a Vital Publications indicia, and the Grand Comics Database says they appear to have been published as stand-alone books, #1 in 1943 and #2 in 1944; the title seems to have become a regular periodical with #3 in Spring 1946. Cole wrote and drew every comic story in #1 and #2 and drew all six covers. From #3 on, the database credits most scripts to Gwen Hansen.
Across issues #1 to #6, Plas and Woozy break up the Chance Club and face a body-swapping crook, a man who turns into lava, a lumberman who thinks he is a Viking and a crook in Mother Goose costumes, and from #3 Woozy headlines short stories of his own. Quality ceased publishing with comics cover-dated December 1956. Many of its character and title trademarks were sold to National Comics Publications, now DC Comics, which revived Plastic Man in 1966.
On LiveComics, every issue here plays panel by panel, with each line voiced by a full cast, plus sound effects and a score.
Sources, checked October 2026: Grand Comics Database: Plastic Man (Quality, 1943 series) · Grand Comics Database: Plastic Man #[1] (1943) · Wikipedia: Plastic Man · Wikipedia: Woozy Winks · Wikipedia: Quality Comics · Wikipedia: Jack Cole (artist)
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