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doesitmatter Member |
posted April 15, 2003 03:54 PM
  
I was just thumbing through the jack Cole and Plastic man book at B&N downstairs when I decided; Plastic Man archives are next. I have a couple of questions first: If you map that out, how many Archives should we expect? Is Plastic Man the first hero with stretching powers? He obviously predates ReedRichards by two decades and I believe Elongated man is Silver Age too. Shmoo's pretty old. How made up was the late 70's cartoon? Did the other characters exist anywhere? IP: Logged |
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CMCINTYRE3600 Member |
posted April 15, 2003 04:15 PM
Elongated Man is Silver Age. Plastic Man is Golden Age. Early GA. I actually haven't gotten any of the PM Archives yet myself, so I can't answer any of the more detailed questions, but I think he was the first, way ahead of Elongated Man (who was a near contemporary of Reed Richards). Chris IP: Logged |
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BlueTracer Member |
posted April 15, 2003 05:44 PM
The first stretchable hero was Marvel's Thin Man who appearing in 1940 predated Plastic Man by over a year. IP: Logged |
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vze2 Member |
posted April 15, 2003 05:54 PM
Plastic Man was the original stretchable superhero. I vaguely remember the cartoon series. However, I clearly remember not liking it because it clearly had nothing in common with the comic other than the title character. I vaguely remember that he had a baby in the cartoon, so I guess he must have had a wife too. Plastic Man originally appeared in Police Comics and later in Plastic Man, both published by Quality Comics. Plastic Man ran for 64 issues. The first 102 issues of Police Comics contained Plastic Man stories. I have made half-hearted attempts to figure out exactly how much work Cole did, but I always ran into vague or conflicting information. According to an old and possibly inaccurate price guide I have, Jack Cole did the cover and at least some interior art in Police Comics 102, which would appear to indicate that he did all of Plastic Man's Police appearances. He is also listed as the cover and interior artist on the first 44 issues of Plastic Man. He is also listed as an interior artist for a handful of later issues, probably inventory stories if the guide is accurate. Don't trust me. Someone, I don't think it was Owen or Steve, but it might have been, calculated that there would be 15 volumes of Quality material, 13 containing Cole. I'm just relaying the message; I haven't confirmed this. IP: Logged |
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vze2 Member |
posted April 15, 2003 05:57 PM
quote: Apparently, the one thing I thought I knew was wrong. IP: Logged |
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Kamandi Last Boy on Earth Member |
posted April 15, 2003 06:15 PM
quote: Did Thin Man actually stretch? I thought he was merely 2 dimensional and could fit through cracks etc. IP: Logged |
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Dr. Van Thorp Member |
posted April 15, 2003 07:47 PM
Jack Cole himself did a couple of characters that were precidents for Plas. His comedic asian detective "Won Clew" used a chamical potion to temporarily gain plasticman-like powers in one story, and Cole also created a native-American shapeshifter hero who could take on the forms of different animals. IP: Logged |
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