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The Plastic Man Archives, Vol. 6 (DC Archive Editions)

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This is the sixth volume in the DC Archives series of Plastic Man reprints from Police Comics and Plastic Man. Covering Plastic Man #5 & 6 and the Plastic Man stories from Police Comics #s 59 to 65. The madness continues but there is a question of credit where it is due.

At this time in his career Jack Cole was busy. By all accounts he was an artist who liked to do it all from drawing to inking to lettering but at this point in his career he had to turn his creation over to other hands (just like Will Eisner turned his beloved creation the Spirit into Cole's hands while Eisner went into the army during World War II).

The trouble is that in the golden age of comics many times records were not kept of who did what (not until Marvel where the creators were promoted were their credit boxes in every story and even then people still debate who inked Fantastic Four #1 in 1961). When you view the content pages very few of the stories have credits for the reason I sited.

None the less the army of creators Cole employed to do the job were more than up to the task. From battling babies to femme fatales. From evil magicians to Woozy's (Plastic Man's W.C.Fields like sidekick) the pace moves fast, furious and whacky with the occasion bit of pathos thrown in. Some of the stories almost seem like motion picture cartoons magically captured on paper.

The best thing about the reprints in this volume is other than some of the fashions they stand the test of time and do not seem dated today which is one of the tests of great fiction or art.

Well worth it.