| Issue | #4 |
| Published | [November] 2002 |
| Cover Price | 49.95 USD; 82.95 CAD |
| Pages | 224 |
| Editing | Dale Crain (collected edition senior editor); Nick J. Napolitano (collected edition associate editor) |
| Notes | "The fun and adventure continues with a new volume of the award-winning series featuring everyone's favorite pliable hero! This hardcover is written and illustrated by the legendary Jack Cole, who really hits his stride in this era as Plas and Woozy's hijinks become even more outrageous! The silliness begins with a mysterious murder in Woozy's boarding house and moves on to Woozy being hired as a store detective to foil (with the help of Plas) a tsunami of shoplifting. Then the diabolical Dr. Dratt and his "illuminating gas" give the daffy duo a run for their money. Next, Plas and Woozy assist a nutty professor in establishing a claim to a radium mine in the Arctic. If that weren't enough, our heroes also investigate the murder at The Home for the Aged (though in Cole's hands, it's more of an asylum), assist millionaire Cyrus Van Rooten in settling an old score with a tribe of Indians, get mixed up in a mystery in a maniacal medical school, and visit Futura, a city of the future that's still plagued by crime! And that's not all! Reprinting POLICE COMICS #40-49 and PLASTIC MAN #3 (1945-46), this volume features a half-dozen more adventures, including the first Woozy Winks solo story and an unusual Plastic Man prose story. Plus, an introduction by renowned European comics historian Andreas Knigge!" [per solicitation] Black-and-white reconstruction by Rick Keene and Greg Theakston. Series design by Alex Jay/Studio J. Publication design by Louis Prandi. Special thanks to Diamond International Galleries for source material. |
| Characters | Plastic Man [Eel O'Brian]; Woozy Winks |
| Genre | Superhero |
| Pencils | Jack Cole |
| Inks | Jack Cole |
| Colors | Digital Chameleon |
| Notes | "The fun and adventure continues with a new volume of the award-winning series featuring everyone's favorite pliable hero! This hardcover is written and illustrated by the legendary Jack Cole, who really hits his stride in this era as Plas and Woozy's hijinks become even more outrageous! The silliness begins with a mysterious murder in Woozy's boarding house and moves on to Woozy being hired as a store detective to foil (with the help of Plas) a tsunami of shoplifting. Then the diabolical Dr. Dratt and his "illuminating gas" give the daffy duo a run for their money. Next, Plas and Woozy assist a nutty professor in establishing a claim to a radium mine in the Arctic. If that weren't enough, our heroes also investigate the murder at The Home for the Aged (though in Cole's hands, it's more of an asylum), assist millionaire Cyrus Van Rooten in settling an old score with a tribe of Indians, get mixed up in a mystery in a maniacal medical school, and visit Futura, a city of the future that's still plagued by crime! And that's not all! Reprinting POLICE COMICS #40-49 and PLASTIC MAN #3 (1945-46), this volume features a half-dozen more adventures, including the first Woozy Winks solo story and an unusual Plastic Man prose story. Plus, an introduction by renowned European comics historian Andreas Knigge!" [per solicitation] Black-and-white reconstruction by Rick Keene and Greg Theakston. Series design by Alex Jay/Studio J. Publication design by Louis Prandi. Special thanks to Diamond International Galleries for source material. |
| Characters | Plastic Man [Eel O'Brian]; Woozy Winks |
| Pencils | Jack Cole |
| Inks | Jack Cole |
| Colors | Digital Chameleon (color reconstruction) |
| Letters | typeset |
| Characters | Plastic Man [Eel O'Brian]; Woozy Winks |
| Genre | Superhero |
| Script | Andreas C. Knigge |
| Pencils | Jack Cole |
| Inks | Jack Cole |
| Colors | Digital Chameleon (color reconstruction) |
| Letters | typeset |
| Notes | Forward by Andreas C. Knigge |
| Characters | Plastic Man [Eel O'Brian]; Woozy Winks |
| Genre | Superhero |
| Pencils | Jack Cole (signed) |
| Inks | Jack Cole (signed) |
| Colors | Digital Chameleon (color reconstruction) |
| Editing | George Brenner (original) |
| Reprinted | from POLICE COMICS (Quality Comics, 1941 series) #40 (March 1945) |
| Characters | Plastic Man [Eel O'Brian]; Woozy Winks; J. Farthingale Dillingweather (first appearance); Percy (first appearance); Francesca Bibi (first appearance); Old Man Timkins (first appearance; deceased); VILLAINS: Mrs. Murphy (first appearance); Mostelo (first appearance) |
| Synopsis | Plastic Man must solve the murder of Old Man Timkins. |
| Genre | Superhero |
| Script | Jack Cole |
| Pencils | Jack Cole |
| Inks | Jack Cole |
| Colors | Digital Chameleon (color reconstruction) |
| Letters | Jack Cole |
| Editing | George Brenner (original) |
| Notes | Based on the song "Who Put the Overalls In Mrs. Murphy's Chowder?" |
| Reprinted | from POLICE COMICS (Quality Comics, 1941 series) #40 (March 1945) |
| Characters | Plastic Man [Eel O'Brian]; Woozy Winks |
| Genre | Superhero |
| Pencils | Jack Cole (signed) |
| Inks | Jack Cole (signed) |
| Colors | Digital Chameleon (color reconstruction) |
| Editing | George Brenner (original) |
| Reprinted | from POLICE COMICS (Quality Comics, 1941 series) #41 (April 1945) |
| Characters | Plastic Man [Eel O'Brian]; Woozy Winks; Chief Branner; Mr. Grabbett (first appearance); VILLAINS: Mask [Sammy Runn] (first appearance); Snatch (first appearance); Louie the Lift (first appearance) |
| Synopsis | Plastic Man and Woozy stop the Mask from bankrupting the Grabbett and Runn Department Store. |
| Genre | Superhero |
| Script | Jack Cole |
| Pencils | Jack Cole |
| Inks | Jack Cole |
| Colors | Digital Chameleon (color reconstruction) |
| Letters | Jack Cole |
| Editing | George Brenner (original) |
| Reprinted | from POLICE COMICS (Quality Comics, 1941 series) #41 (April 1945) |
| Characters | Plastic Man [Eel O'Brian]; Woozy Winks |
| Genre | Superhero |
| Pencils | Jack Cole (signed) |
| Inks | Jack Cole (signed) |
| Colors | Digital Chameleon (color reconstruction) |
| Editing | George Brenner (original) |
| Reprinted | from POLICE COMICS (Quality Comics, 1941 series) #42 (May 1945) |
| Characters | Plastic Man [Eel O'Brian]; Woozy Winks; Chief Branner; VILLAIN: Dr. Lucius D. Dratt (first appearance) |
| Synopsis | Dr. Dratt tries to kill Plastic Man. |
| Genre | Superhero |
| Script | Jack Cole |
| Pencils | Jack Cole |
| Inks | Jack Cole |
| Colors | Digital Chameleon (color reconstruction) |
| Letters | Jack Cole |
| Editing | George Brenner (original) |
| Reprinted | from POLICE COMICS (Quality Comics, 1941 series) #42 (May 1945) |
| Characters | Plastic Man [Eel O'Brian]; Woozy Winks |
| Genre | Superhero |
| Pencils | Jack Cole |
| Inks | Jack Cole |
| Colors | Digital Chameleon (color reconstruction) |
| Editing | George Brenner (original) |
| Reprinted | from POLICE COMICS (Quality Comics, 1941 series) #43 (June 1945) |
| Characters | Plastic Man [Eel O'Brian]; Woozy Winks; Chief Branner; Professor Stone (first appearance); VILLAINS: Iggy (first appearance); Dirty (first appearance); Noisy (first appearance) |
| Synopsis | Some hoodlums try to kill Professor Stone and get his radium mine. An eskimo wants Woozy for her mate. |
| Genre | Superhero |
| Script | Jack Cole |
| Pencils | Jack Cole |
| Inks | Jack Cole |
| Colors | Digital Chameleon (color reconstruction) |
| Letters | Jack Cole |
| Editing | George Brenner (original) |
| Reprinted | from POLICE COMICS (Quality Comics, 1941 series) #43 (June 1945) |
| Characters | Plastic Man [Eel O'Brian]; Woozy Winks |
| Genre | Superhero |
| Pencils | Jack Cole (signed) |
| Inks | Jack Cole (signed) |
| Colors | Digital Chameleon (color reconstruction) |
| Editing | George Brenner (original) |
| Reprinted | from POLICE COMICS (Quality Comics, 1941 series) #44 (July 1945) |
| Characters | Plastic Man [Eel O'Brian]; Woozy Winks; R. Wist (first appearance); Augustus Diffle (first appearance; dies); VILLAINS: T. Wellington Pike [aka Dandy Ned] (first appearance); Mrs. Diffle (first appearance) |
| Synopsis | Woozy is blamed for a murder in an old folks home. |
| Genre | Superhero |
| Script | Jack Cole |
| Pencils | Jack Cole |
| Inks | Jack Cole |
| Colors | Digital Chameleon (color reconstruction) |
| Letters | Jack Cole |
| Editing | George Brenner (original) |
| Reprinted | from POLICE COMICS (Quality Comics, 1941 series) #44 (July 1945) |
| Characters | Plastic Man [Eel O'Brian]; Woozy Winks |
| Genre | Superhero |
| Pencils | Jack Cole (signed) |
| Inks | Jack Cole (signed) |
| Colors | Digital Chameleon (color reconstruction) |
| Editing | George Brenner (original) |
| Reprinted | from POLICE COMICS (Quality Comics, 1941 series) #45 (August 1945) |
| Characters | Plastic Man [Eel O'Brian]; Woozy Winks; Chief Branner; Cyrus Van Rooten (first appearance); Jeeves (first appearance); VILLAIN: Chief Rain-In-the-Trap [Mickey the Actor] (first appearance) |
| Synopsis | Mickey the Actor poses as an indian to try to get the town from Cyrus Van Rooten. |
| Genre | Superhero |
| Script | Jack Cole |
| Pencils | Jack Cole |
| Inks | Jack Cole |
| Colors | Digital Chameleon (color reconstruction) |
| Letters | Jack Cole |
| Editing | George Brenner (original) |
| Reprinted | from POLICE COMICS (Quality Comics, 1941 series) #45 (August 1945) |
| Characters | Plastic Man [Eel O'Brian]; Woozy Winks |
| Genre | Superhero |
| Pencils | Jack Cole (signed) |
| Inks | Jack Cole (signed) |
| Colors | Digital Chameleon (color reconstruction) |
| Editing | George Brenner (original) |
| Reprinted | from POLICE COMICS (Quality Comics, 1941 series) #46 (September 1945) |
| Characters | Plastic Man [Eel O'Brian]; Woozy Winks; VILLAINS: Hexin' Maggie (first appearance); Sorcerer Sim (first appearance); Sorcerer Mulligan (first appearance); Oscar the Owl (first appearance) |
| Synopsis | Oscar the Owl tries to have Plastic Man killed at a sorcerers convention. |
| Genre | Superhero |
| Script | Jack Cole |
| Pencils | Jack Cole |
| Inks | Jack Cole |
| Colors | Digital Chameleon (color reconstruction) |
| Letters | Jack Cole |
| Editing | George Brenner (original) |
| Reprinted | from POLICE COMICS (Quality Comics, 1941 series) #46 (September 1945) |
| Characters | Plastic Man [Eel O'Brian]; Woozy Winks |
| Genre | Superhero |
| Pencils | Jack Cole (signed) |
| Inks | Jack Cole (signed) |
| Colors | Digital Chameleon (color reconstruction) |
| Editing | George Brenner (original) |
| Reprinted | from POLICE COMICS (Quality Comics, 1941 series) #47 (October 1945) |
| Characters | Plastic Man [Eel O'Brian]; Woozy Winks; Chief Branner; VILLAINS: Harry the Horse (first appearance); Benny Yokelvitz (first appearance); Muscles (first appearance); Dr. Slicer (first appearance); Dr. Doser (first appearance) |
| Synopsis | Two doctors try to operate on Plas to see what makes him tick. |
| Genre | Superhero |
| Script | Jack Cole |
| Pencils | Jack Cole |
| Inks | Jack Cole |
| Colors | Digital Chameleon (color reconstruction) |
| Letters | Jack Cole |
| Editing | George Brenner (original) |
| Reprinted | from POLICE COMICS (Quality Comics, 1941 series) #47 (October 1945) |
| Characters | Plastic Man [Eel O'Brian]; Woozy Winks |
| Genre | Superhero |
| Pencils | Jack Cole (signed) |
| Inks | Jack Cole (signed) |
| Colors | Digital Chameleon (color reconstruction) |
| Editing | George Brenner (original) |
| Reprinted | from POLICE COMICS (Quality Comics, 1941 series) #48 (November 1945) |
| Characters | Plastic Man [Eel O'Brian]; Woozy Winks; Jasper Tipple (first appearance); VILLAINS: Big Beaver [Joe Grover] (first appearance); The Cutter (first appearance) |
| Synopsis | Some gangsters trick Jasper Tipple into building his city of the future... Futuria... for them. |
| Genre | Superhero |
| Script | Jack Cole |
| Pencils | Jack Cole |
| Inks | Jack Cole |
| Colors | Digital Chameleon (color reconstruction) |
| Letters | Jack Cole |
| Editing | George Brenner (original) |
| Reprinted | from POLICE COMICS (Quality Comics, 1941 series) #48 (November 1945) |
| Characters | Plastic Man [Eel O'Brian]; Woozy Winks |
| Genre | Superhero |
| Pencils | Jack Cole |
| Inks | Jack Cole |
| Colors | Digital Chameleon (color reconstruction) |
| Editing | George Brenner (original) |
| Reprinted | from POLICE COMICS (Quality Comics, 1941 series) #49 (December 1945) |
| Characters | Plastic Man [Eel O'Brian]; Woozy Winks; Thelma Twittle (first appearance); R.V. Cosy (first appearance; attempts suicide); Mr. Meredith (first appearance); VILLAIN: Zach Daily (first appearance; dies) |
| Synopsis | Thelma Twittle is able to hypnotize any man, except for Zach Daily. He tricks her into doing anything he wants her to do. |
| Genre | Superhero |
| Script | Jack Cole |
| Pencils | Jack Cole |
| Inks | Jack Cole |
| Colors | Digital Chameleon (color reconstruction) |
| Letters | Jack Cole |
| Editing | George Brenner (original) |
| Reprinted | from POLICE COMICS (Quality Comics, 1941 series) #49 (December 1945) |
| Characters | Plastic Man [Eel O'Brian]; Woozy Winks; Kayo Randy |
| Genre | Superhero |
| Pencils | Jack Cole |
| Inks | Jack Cole |
| Colors | Digital Chameleon (color reconstruction) |
| Editing | George Brenner (original) |
| Reprinted | from PLASTIC MAN (Quality Comics, 1943 series) #3 (Spring 1946) |
| Characters | Plastic Man [Eel O'Brian]; Woozy Winks; Kayo Randy (first appearance); Snoopy Hawks (first appearance; deceased); John T. Wales [as Mr. Cleary] (first appearance); VILLAIN: Cynthia Bender (first appearance) |
| Synopsis | Plas must figure out who killed Snoopy Hawks. |
| Genre | Superhero |
| Script | Joe Millard |
| Pencils | Jack Cole |
| Inks | Jack Cole |
| Colors | Digital Chameleon (color reconstruction) |
| Letters | Jack Cole |
| Editing | George Brenner (original) |
| Notes | Per Martin O'Hearn, Joe Millard is the writer for this story. The Archive credits Jack Cole. |
| Reprinted | from PLASTIC MAN (Quality Comics, 1943 series) #3 (Spring 1946) |
| Characters | Plastic Man [Eel O'Brian]; Woozy Winks; W. Wickstaff Roost (first appearance); VILLAINS: B.T. Tokus (first appearance); Timbo (first appearance); Goglo (first appearance); Smogo (first appearance) |
| Synopsis | B.T. Tokus hires some witch doctors to try to kill Plas. |
| Genre | Superhero |
| Script | Jack Cole |
| Pencils | Jack Cole |
| Inks | Jack Cole |
| Colors | Digital Chameleon (color reconstruction) |
| Letters | Jack Cole |
| Editing | George Brenner (original) |
| Reprinted | from PLASTIC MAN (Quality Comics, 1943 series) #3 (Spring 1946) |
| Characters | Woozy Winks; VILLAINS: Smelly Pitts (first appearance); Petunia (first appearance) |
| Synopsis | Woozy tries to capture Smelly Pitts and get the reward. But first, he helps Smelly break out of jail. |
| Genre | Superhero |
| Script | Jack Cole |
| Pencils | Jack Cole |
| Inks | Jack Cole |
| Colors | Digital Chameleon (color reconstruction) |
| Letters | Jack Cole |
| Editing | George Brenner (original) |
| Notes | First Woozy Winks solo story. |
| Reprinted | from PLASTIC MAN (Quality Comics, 1943 series) #3 (Spring 1946) |
| Characters | Plastic Man [Eel O'Brian; disguised as Zrogan]; Woozy Winks; VILLAINS: Bordo (first appearance) |
| Genre | Superhero |
| Script | Jack Cole |
| Letters | typeset |
| Editing | George Brenner (original) |
| Reprinted | from PLASTIC MAN (Quality Comics, 1943 series) #3 (Spring 1946) |
| Characters | Plastic Man [Eel O'Brian]; Woozy Winks; Chief Branner; VILLAINS: Jake Strumby (first appearance) |
| Synopsis | Jake Strumby and his gang hide in a whale. |
| Genre | Superhero |
| Script | Jack Cole |
| Pencils | Jack Cole |
| Inks | Jack Cole |
| Colors | Digital Chameleon (color reconstruction) |
| Letters | Jack Cole |
| Editing | George Brenner (original) |
| Reprinted | from PLASTIC MAN (Quality Comics, 1943 series) #3 (Spring 1946) |
| Genre | Fact |
| Script | Peter L. Myer; Adam Philips |
| Letters | Typeset |
| Notes | Biography for Jack Cole. Biographical material researched and written by Peter L. Myer and Adam Philips. |
| Characters | Plastic Man [Eel O'Brian]; Woozy Winks |
| Genre | Superhero |
| Pencils | Jack Cole |
| Inks | Jack Cole |
| Colors | Digital Chameleon (color reconstruction) |
| Editing | George Brenner (original) |
| Notes | Reprints covers from POLICE COMICS (Quality Comics, 1941 series) #43, 46, 48 and PLASTIC MAN (Quality Comics, 1943 series) #3. |
| Reprinted | from POLICE COMICS (Quality Comics, 1941 series) #43 [cover]; from POLICE COMICS (Quality Comics, 1941 series) #46 [cover]; from POLICE COMICS (Quality Comics, 1941 series) #48 [cover]; from PLASTIC MAN (Quality Comics, 1943 series) #3 [cover] |