It seems there's a lot of people who would wish harm upon happy-go-lucky Plastic Man!
Super villains like Dr Dome and Professor X!
The elitist (and extremely rich) Mrs DeLute and her butler Fawnish!
The arrogant (and inept) police Captain McSniffe!
And the conflicted daughter of Dr Dome, Lynx, who both loves our Stretchable Slacker and continually tries to kill him!
With this set-up in place, the title ran nine more issues.
Arnold Drake would remain as writer for the entire series.
Win Mortimer would take over interior art from 2-7, with Jack Sparling finishing the series from 7-10.
Carmine Infantino and Joe Orlando would contribute covers.
This being the 1960s,
Plas would battle both mod-dressed characters
and gorillas!
After an issue presenting three different origin tales, Plas' pliable pappy, the Golden Age (
Quality Comics)
Plastic Man appeared along with sidekick
Woozy Winks!
There was a campy cross-over with
Batman in
Brave and Bold.
Then he disappeared for several years before being revived as an amnesiac involved in a romance with a villainess.
But that's a story for another time.
Speaking of stories, I believed this tale had never been reprinted, but it appeared in
DC's Plastic Man 80-Page Giant (2004), which reprinted several of Plas' "famous firsts".
The rest of the 1960s series has not been reprinted, and we may present them here...
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