Russkie-Smashers PLASTIC MAN "Dazzla, Daughter of Darkness!"

Behind this cover by penciler Charles Nicholas and inker Chuck Cuidera...

...lurks a pretty kool tale of Commie menace written and illustrated by Plaz's creator, Jack Cole!

This story appeared in Quality's Plastic Man #53 (1955).

But it's actually a reprint, since the tale first appeared in Quality's Plastic Man #30 (1951).

There's no re-working/re-editing required by the Comics Code as was done to some other Plaz tales such as the one shown HERE!

So why did we run the reprint?

Because the tale wasn't cover-featured during initial publication, but was the second time around!

There is method to our madness!

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PLASTIC MAN "Plastic Man's Fantastic Old Man" Conclusion

We Have Already Seen...

...err..wait!

This cover scene does not appear in this story!

In fact, there's no simian of any sort in the story! 

Apparently, then-publisher (and cover penciler) Carmine Infantino's fetish for apes got the best of him!

Well, at least the captions are accurate!

This tale concerns the Silver Age Plastic Man's dad...the Golden Age Plastic Man!

Now in retirement, the older super-hero is about to lose his only source of income, his Plastic Acres retirement home to the notorious criminal King of Spades!

The two heroes and their sidekicks pose as a shiek and his entourage in order to catch the greedy King of Spades robbing them...

Oh, look!

Another ape (on the Jerry Lewis cover)!

Wow, they were everywhere in those days!

Though writer Arnold Drake would remain for the rest of the title's run, this was artist Win Mortimer's swan song as he went on to extended stays on both Legion of Super Heroes (in Adventure Comics and Action Comics) and Supergirl (in Adventure Comics, when Legion transferred over to Action Comics)!

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PLASTIC MAN "Plastic Man's Fantastic Old Man" Part 2

When Last We Left Our Heroes...

...it turns out the Silver Age Plastic Man is the son of the Golden Age Plastic Man, who now runs a retirement home!

The tawdry tale concludes...TOMORROW!

BTW, I mentioned we did an editorial change to the art for this never-reprinted story by writer Arnold Drake and artist Win Mortimer.

Nobody posted what it was, so I'll tell you.

I photoshopped the Golden Age Plastic Man's legs back to their "bare flesh tone" color!

The published story had both the Silver Age and Golden Age PMs with the red leggings that defined the Silver Age version, which made it difficult to tell them apart in panels where they appeared together!

So for the sake of historical accuracy, I modified the pages.

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PLASTIC MAN "Plastic Man's Fantastic Old Man" Part 1

We presented a never-reprinted tale with three different origins for the Silver Age Stretchable Sleuth...

...but this never-reprinted tale is the real deal, we pinky-swear it!

When DC bought the Quality Comics line in the mid-1950s, they kept four titles going...Blackhawk, G.I. Combat, Heart Throbs, and Robin Hood Tales.

The rest of the titles (and characters) were held in abeyance, and apparently forgotten about.

(I'm not sure if editor Julie Schwartz even remembered DC had the rights to Plastic Man when the Elongated Man was created in The Flash, then given his own strip in Detective Comics!)

When Plas was revived in 1966, many fans were disappointed that he wasn't Jack Cole's Golden Age version with sidekick Woozy Winks.

This tale by writer Arnold Drake and artist Win Mortimer from DC's Plastic Man #7 (1967) was meant as a tie-in to that version.

You'll note the older Plas has the angular, almost lupine look of the original version.

In addition, I've taken the liberty of making an editorial alteration throughout the tale to keep the Golden Age version "on model".

If you haven't already figured out what it is, you'll discover what it is...TOMORROW!

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