When gangster Eel O'Brien was double-crossed by his partners during a heist, he fell into a vat of chemicals that would forever change his body and life. These are the original stories of a common thief who turned into the world's wackiest super-hero. With the ability to stretch his body into any shape and length, Plastic Man has become one of the most colorful and comical icons of all time.

Reprinting POLICE COMICS #50-58 and PLASTIC MAN #4 in a handsome hardcoverarchive! Featuring an introduction by Bill Schelly and a host ofinnovative and unusual Golden Age Plastic Man tales.

Meet Eel OÕBrian: a petty thug, thief and con artist who runs a strip club. Hey, heÕs also dead, at least according to the gang that tossed him out like last weekÕs garbage. Literally. DonÕt worry, thoughÑhe bounced back from all that, and now heÕs trying to make a new life for himself, but the effort is stretching him pretty thin. How can he get revenge on his old boss, keep a street kid out of trouble, make a dancer fall in love with him and stop a mysterious society from taking over the world? Eel has no idea! Find out in this title collecting the six-issue miniseries.

A new archive featuring select stories from FLASH COMICS #1-22, introducingHawkman! Gardner Fox's stories took the reincarnated Egyptian prince and pittedhim against common criminals and uncommon masked felons. Plus, an introductionby Sheldon Moldoff.

One of the most colorful super-hero teams of the early 1960s, the Metal Men are six shape-shifting robots whose personalities are based on their metals: Hot-tempered Mercury, timid Tin, thick-headed Lead, etc. Invented by eccentric scientist Dr. Will Magnus, the team is ready to give their all - including their artificial lives - to protect mankind. In these tales, never before reprinted in color, the Metal Men take on the Gas Gang, including Helium, Oxygen, Chloroform and more, save lives at the "Playground of Terror," try to stop the deadly rain of "The Missile Men," and battle Chemo, a giant, human-shaped vat filled with deadly chemicals.

Plastic Man Volume 1 Number 1 "Game of Death" by Jack Cole and Quality Vital Comics Publishers, February 1944. This edition is a republishing under CC BY 3.0 license of "Plastic Man" Vol. 1 No. 1 first published by Quality Comics in February 1944. It has been restored for publishing with advertisements. Plastic Man (real name Patrick "Eel" O'Brian) is a fictional comic book superhero originally published by Quality Comics and later acquired by DC Comics. Created by cartoonist Jack Cole, Plastic Man was one of the first superheroes to incorporate humor into mainstream action storytelling. The character has been published in several solo series and has interacted with other characters in the mainstream DC Universe as a member of the Justice League. He has additionally appeared in several television and video game adaptations, including a short-lived television show of his own.

Reprinting for the first time some of DC Comics' rarest publictions from the Golden Age of comics, including three early anthology titles in their entirety. Features appearances by virtually every Golden Age hero: Superman, Batman, Wonder, Sandman, Hawkman, Scribbly, The Atom, Wildcat and more. An action-packed adventure, this volume of classic tales is sure to entertain!