| PLASTIC MAN (Eel O'Brian) | CHRONOLOGY |
| Created by Jack Cole |
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CHRONOLOGY
Plastic Man first appeared in Police Comics #1/6 (August 1941) [Quality].
Below is the definitive list of appearances of Plastic Man in chronological order. Flashback sequences or story entries will be followed by a [Flashback] note. Stories that for some reason are no longer part of current continuity will have a comment saying this in a note following the entry.
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Plastic Man Chronology
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| Police Comics #1/6 (August 1941): [The Origin of Plastic Man] |
| Police Comics #2 (September 1941): [Dueling the Dope Smugglers] |
| Police Comics #3 (October 1941): [The Pinball Racket] |
| Police Comics #4 (November 1941): "Crime School for Delinquent Girls" |
| Police Comics #5 (December 1941): [The Return of Madam Brawn] |
| Police Comics #6 (January 1942): [Case of the Disembodied Hands] |
| Police Comics #7 (February 1942): "The United Crooks of America" |
| Police Comics #8 (March 1942): [The Sinister Eight Ball] |
| Police Comics #9 (April 1942): "Satan's Son Sells Out to the Japs" |
| Justice League of America #193/2 (August 1981): "The All-Star Squadron" |
| All-Star Squadron #1 (September 1981): "The World on Fire" |
| All-Star Squadron #2 (October 1981): "The Tyrant Out of Time" |
| All-Star Squadron #3 (November 1981): "The Dooms of Dark December" |
| All-Star Squadron #4 (December 1981): "Day of the Dragon King" |
| All-Star Squadron #7 (March 1982): "Carnage for Christmas" |
| Police Comics #10 (July 1942): [The Cyclop Caper] |
| Police Comics #11 (September 1942): [The Brain of Cyrus Smythe] |
| All-Star Squadron #31 (March 1984): "Uncle Sam Wants You" |
| All-Star Squadron #32 (April 1984): "Crisis on Earth-X! The Prequel" |
| All-Star Squadron #35 (July 1984): "That Earths May Live" |
| All-Star Squadron #36 (August 1984): "Thunder Over London" |
| All-Star Squadron #37 (September 1984): "Lightning in Berlin" |
| Police Comics #12 (October 1942): [The Sinister Swami] |
| All-Star Squadron #50 (October 1985): "Crisis Point" |
| All-Star Squadron #60 (August 1986): "The End of the Beginning!" |
| Police Comics #13 (November 1942): "Presenting the Man Who Can't Be Harmed" |
| Police Comics #14 (December 1942): "Oh, Plastic Man!" |
| Police Comics #15 (January 1943): [The Weather Weapon] |
| Police Comics #16 (February 1943): [The Revenge of Chief Great Warrior] |
| Police Comics #17 (March 1943): [Murder in Maniac Mansion] |
| Police Comics #18 (April 1943): [The Drafting of Plastic Man] |
| Police Comics #19 (May 1943): "The Forest of Fear" |
| Police Comics #20 (June 1943): "Woozy Winks Detective Agency" |
| Police Comics #21 (August 1943): [The Menace of Serpina] |
| Police Comics #22 (September 1943): "The Eyes Have It" |
| Police Comics #23 (October 1943): [The Ghost Train] |
| Police Comics #24 (November 1943): [The Hundred Plastic Men] |
| Police Comics #25 (December 1943): "The Rare Edition Murders" |
| Plastic Man Vol. 1 #1 (1943): "Game of Death" |
| Plastic Man Vol. 1 #1/2 (1943): [The Camouflaging Device] |
| Plastic Man Vol. 1 #1/3 (1943): [Go West, Young Plastic Man] |
| Police Comics #26 (January 1944): "Body, Mind and Soul" |
| Police Comics #27 (February 1944): [Woozy Winks, Juror] |
| Police Comics #28 (March 1944): [Plastic Man--The Movie] |
| Police Comics #29 (April 1944): [Derlin's Castle] |
| Police Comics #30 (May 1944): [Blinky Winks and Gooie Louie] |
| Police Comics #31 (June 1944): [Slicer and Doser's Medical School] |
| Police Comics #32 (July 1944): [The La Cucharacha Caper] |
| Plastic Man Vol. 1 #2 (August 1944): "The Gay Nineties Nightmare" |
| Plastic Man Vol. 1 #2/2 (August 1944): "Who's Who" |
| Plastic Man Vol. 1 #2/3 (August 1944): "The Lava Man" |
| Plastic Man Vol. 1 #2/4 (August 1944): "Welcome to Coroner's Corners" |
| Police Comics #33 (August 1944): [Deathtrap for Plastic Man] |
| Police Comics #34 (September 1944): [Serena Sloop and Her Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Criminals] |
| Police Comics #35 (October 1944): [The Confession of Froggy Fink] |
| Police Comics #36 (November 1944): "Dr. Brann's Health Farm" |
| Police Comics #37 (December 1944): "Love Comes to Woozy" |
| Police Comics #38 (January 1945): "One Million Dollar Reward for the Death of Plastic Man" |
| Police Comics #39 (February 1945): "His Lordship Woozy Winks" |
| Police Comics #40 (March 1945): "Boarding House Stew" |
| Police Comics #41 (April 1945): [Louie the Lift] |
| Police Comics #42 (May 1945): "Woozy Cooks With Gas" |
| Police Comics #43 (June 1945): [Arctic Circle Adventure] |
| Police Comics #44 (July 1945): [Murder at the Home for the Aged] |
| Police Comics #45 (August 1945): [Chief Rain-In-the-Trap] |
| Police Comics #46 (September 1945): "The Owl" |
| Police Comics #47 (October 1945) |
| Police Comics #48 (November 1945): "City of the Future" |
| Police Comics #49 (December 1945): [Thelma Twittle, Super-Charmer] |
| Police Comics #50 (January 1946): "Plastic Man Protects Crookdom?" |
| Police Comics #51 (February 1946): "The Granite Lady" |
| Police Comics #52 (March 1946): "Crime Without Criminals" |
| Plastic Man Vol. 1 #3 (spring 1946): [The Killing of Snoopy Hawks] |
| Plastic Man Vol. 1 #3/2 (spring 1946): [B. T. Tokus and the Witch Doctors] |
| Plastic Man Vol. 1 #3/3 (spring 1946): [A Whale of a Tale, or, The Ambergris Caper] |
| Police Comics #53 (April 1946): [The Evil Genius of Dr. Erudite] |
| Police Comics #54 (May 1946): "The Thinking Machine" |
| Police Comics #55 (June 1946): "Sleepy Eyes" |
| Plastic Man Vol. 1 #4 (summer 1946): [The Purple Viking] |
| Plastic Man Vol. 1 #4/2 (summer 1946): "King Lughead, the First" |
| Plastic Man Vol. 1 #4/3 (summer 1946): "The Lobster" |
| Police Comics #56 (July 1946): "Overworked Genie" |
| Police Comics #57 (August 1946): "Mars--Keep Away" |
| Police Comics #58 (September 1946): "The Green Terror" |
| Plastic Man Vol. 1 #5 (autumn 1946): "They Called Him Weapons" |
| Plastic Man Vol. 1 #5/2 (autumn 1946): [The Mysterious Being Called Hate] |
| Plastic Man Vol. 1 #5/3 (autumn 1946): [The Evil Money of Moneybags] |
| Police Comics #59 (October 1946): "The Grim Mr. Happiness" |
| Police Comics #60 (November 1946): "Professor Spindrift Built Himself a Body" |
| Police Comics #61 (December 1946): "A Bundle of Trouble" |
| Plastic Man Vol. 1 #6 (winter 1946): [The Moon Wizard] |
| Plastic Man Vol. 1 #6/2 (winter 1946): [The Crimes of Mother Goose] |
| Plastic Man Vol. 1 #6/3 (winter 1946): "The Grasshopper" |
| Police Comics #62 (January 1947): "The Cupid's Bow Murder" |
| Police Comics #63 (February 1947): "The Crab" |
| Police Comics #64 (March 1947): "Candy in Crime" |
| Plastic Man Vol. 1 #7 (spring 1947): [The Evil Dr. Volt] |
| Plastic Man Vol. 1 #7/2 (spring 1947): "One-Way Voyage of Villainy" |
| Plastic Man Vol. 1 #7/3 (spring 1947): [The Billboard's Tale] |
| Police Comics #65 (April 1947): "The Apartment of Dr. Phobia" |
| Police Comics #66 (May 1947): "Beauteous Bessie" |
| Police Comics #67 (June 1947): "The Gag Man" |
| Plastic Man Vol. 1 #8 (summer 1947): [The Hot Rod] |
| Plastic Man Vol. 1 #8/2 (summer 1947): [Concerto for Murder] |
| Plastic Man Vol. 1 #8/3 (summer 1947): [The Homeliest Man in the World] |
| Police Comics #68 (July 1947): [Plas Goes to Hollywood] |
| Police Comics #69 (August 1947): [Stretcho, the India Rubber Man] |
| Police Comics #70 (September 1947): "It's an Ill Wind That Blows the Hat" |
| Plastic Man Vol. 1 #9 (autumn 1947): "The King of Zing" |
| Plastic Man Vol. 1 #9/2 (autumn 1947): "Case of the Counterfeit Counterfeit" |
| Plastic Man Vol. 1 #9/3 (autumn 1947): "Cauldron" |
| Police Comics #71 (October 1947): "East is East and West is West" |
| Police Comics #72 (November 1947): [Mr. Cat] |
| Police Comics #73 (December 1947): [The Man Called Remember] |
| Plastic Man Vol. 1 #10 (winter 1947): [Ali Krim] |
| Plastic Man Vol. 1 #10/2 (winter 1947): [Gangster's Vacation] |
| Plastic Man Vol. 1 #10/3 (winter 1947): [The Evil Electra] |
| Police Comics #74 (January 1948): [The Diabolical Dr. Dimwitt] |
| Police Comics #75 (February 1948): "Case of the Ancient Clues" |
| Police Comics #76 (March 1948): [The Melancholy Mr. Morbid] |
| Plastic Man Vol. 1 #11 (spring 1948): [Robber Barron] |
| Plastic Man Vol. 1 #11/2 (spring 1948): "Bubble Gum" |
| Plastic Man Vol. 1 #11/3 (spring 1948): [The Treasureville Swindle] |
| Police Comics #77 (April 1948): [Skullface] |
| Police Comics #78 (May 1948): "The Dictator of Dreams" |
| Police Comics #79 (June 1948): [Eaglebeak] |
| Plastic Man Vol. 1 #12 (July 1948): [Spadehead] |
| Plastic Man Vol. 1 #12/2 (July 1948): "Riverman" |
| Plastic Man Vol. 1 #12/3 (July 1948): [Horseface] |
| Police Comics #80 (July 1948): "Penetro, Master of Solids" |
| Police Comics #81 (August 1948): "Gargantua, the Phi Beta Gorilla" |
| Plastic Man Vol. 1 #13 (September 1948): [Mister Hazard] |
| Plastic Man Vol. 1 #13/2 (September 1948): [The Man Called Jets] |
| Plastic Man Vol. 1 #13/3 (September 1948): "Artifice" |
| Police Comics #82 (September 1948): "A Three-Way Stretch for Plastic Man" |
| Police Comics #83 (October 1948): "The King of Crime" |
| Plastic Man Vol. 1 #14 (November 1948): [Words] |
| Plastic Man Vol. 1 #14/2 (November 1948): "A Hard Guy Called Concrete" |
| Plastic Man Vol. 1 #14/3 (November 1948): [Bloodhound Bud Bickram] |
| Police Comics #84 (November 1948): "Lucky Seven" |
| Police Comics #85 (December 1948): "The Baker" |
| Plastic Man Vol. 1 #15 (January 1949): [Romany Rita and Beau Crummel] |
| Plastic Man Vol. 1 #15/2 (January 1949): [The Amazing Romanov] |
| Plastic Man Vol. 1 #15/3 (January 1949): [The World Againsters] |
| Police Comics #86 (January 1949): "Phffffttt!" |
| Police Comics #87 (February 1949): "The Horn of Plenty of Trouble" |
| Plastic Man Vol. 1 #16 (March 1949): [Gazelle Van Gonder] |
| Plastic Man Vol. 1 #16/2 (March 1949): [Say It Ain't So, Plas!] |
| Plastic Man Vol. 1 #16/3 (March 1949): [Ali Babass and the Four Thieves] |
| Police Comics #88 (March 1949): "The Seer" |
| Police Comics #89 (April 1949): [No One Can Stop the Vanishers] |
| Police Comics #90 (May 1949): [Captain Rivers] |
| Plastic Man Vol. 1 #17 (May 1949): [Uno, Last Man on Earth] |
| Plastic Man Vol. 1 #17/2 (May 1949): "Plastic Man Products" |
| Police Comics #91 (June 1949): "The Forest Primeval" |
| Plastic Man Vol. 1 #18 (July 1949): [Down on the Farm] |
| Plastic Man Vol. 1 #18/2 (July 1949): [Z. Newgate Popskull] |
| Police Comics #92 (July 1949): "Closets Kennedy's House Racket" |
| Police Comics #93 (August 1949): "Twinning Terror" |
| Plastic Man Vol. 1 #19 (September 1949): [The Prehistoric Plunderer] |
| Plastic Man Vol. 1 #19/2 (September 1949): [Murder in the Ring] |
| Police Comics #94 (September 1949): "Plastic Man Turns Killer" |
| Police Comics #95 (October 1949): "Wanted Dead, Not Alive: Plastic Man" |
| Plastic Man Vol. 1 #20 (November 1949): [Sadly-Sadly] |
| Plastic Man Vol. 1 #20/2 (November 1949): "Come to the Oriental Quarter" |
| Police Comics #96 (November 1949): "The Black Widow" |
| Police Comics #97 (December 1949): "Mime, Master of Makeup" |
| Plastic Man Vol. 1 #21 (January 1950): [Kra Vashnu] |
| Plastic Man Vol. 1 #21/2 (January 1950): "Where is Amorpho?" |
| Police Comics #98 (February 1950): [Yesterday Yore and Yolanda] |
| Plastic Man Vol. 1 #22 (March 1950): "Plague of Plastic People" |
| Plastic Man Vol. 1 #22/2 (March 1950): "The City Was Starving on a Full Stomach" |
| Police Comics #99 (April 1950): [Needles Noggle's Seamy Career] |
| Plastic Man Vol. 1 #23 (May 1950): [The Fountain of Age] |
| Plastic Man Vol. 1 #23/2 (May 1950): [Nevermore] |
| Plastic Man Vol. 1 #23/3 (May 1950): [The Figure] |
| Police Comics #100(June 1950): "Thrilla, the Electrifying Crime Queen" |
| Plastic Man Vol. 1 #24 (July 1950): [The Black Box of Terror] |
| Plastic Man Vol. 1 #24/2 (July 1950): "The Electronic Gun" |
| Plastic Man Vol. 1 #24/3 (July 1950): "The Alarming Case of the Dwindling Victuals" |
| Police Comics #101 (August 1950) |
| Plastic Man Vol. 1 #25 (September 1950): "Hoot Mon" |
| Plastic Man Vol. 1 #25/2 (September 1950): "The Magic Cup" |
| Plastic Man Vol. 1 #25/3 (September 1950): [The Menace of Mr. Aqua] |
| Police Comics #102 (October 1950) |
| Plastic Man Vol. 1 #26 (November 1950): [The Second Plastic Man] |
| Plastic Man Vol. 1 #26/2 (November 1950): [Kug the Caveman] |
| Plastic Man Vol. 1 #26/3 (November 1950): [The Kingdom of Oldstown] |
| Plastic Man Vol. 1 #26/4 (November 1950): "The Weapon for Evil" |
| Plastic Man Vol. 1 #27 (January 1951): "The Sorcerer's Cauldron" |
| Plastic Man Vol. 1 #27/2 (January 1951): "Follow the Leader" |
| Plastic Man Vol. 1 #27/3 (January 1951): "Hypno, Master of Mystery" |
| Plastic Man Vol. 1 #27/4 (January 1951): [The Great Gat Gatsby] |
| Plastic Man Vol. 1 #28 (March 1951): [The Sultry Shasta] |
| Plastic Man Vol. 1 #28/2 (March 1951): "The Case of the Vanishing Windows" |
| Plastic Man Vol. 1 #28/3 (March 1951): "The Monster of Llendwymorra" |
| Plastic Man Vol. 1 #28/4 (March 1951): "The Dwindling Water Supply" |
| Plastic Man Vol. 1 #29 (May 1951): "The Attempted Return of Tricky Toledo" |
| Plastic Man Vol. 1 #29/2 (May 1951): "The Tennessee Smugglers" |
| Plastic Man Vol. 1 #29/3 (May 1951): "The Smoke Weapon" |
| Plastic Man Vol. 1 #29/4 (May 1951): "The Forces of Evil" |
| Plastic Man Vol. 1 #30 (July 1951): "The Man Who Broke the Law of Gravity" |
| Plastic Man Vol. 1 #30/2 (July 1951): "Dazzla, Daughter of Darkness" |
| Plastic Man Vol. 1 #30/3 (July 1951): "Captain Billions' Billions" |
| Plastic Man Vol. 1 #30/4 (July 1951): [Grandma Crookes] |
| Plastic Man Vol. 1 #31 (September 1951): [General Disorder] |
| Plastic Man Vol. 1 #31/2 (September 1951): [Professor McBeast] |
| Plastic Man Vol. 1 #31/3 (September 1951): "The Rituals of Raka" |
| Plastic Man Vol. 1 #31/4 (September 1951): "Reflecto, the Astounding Mirror Man" |
| Plastic Man Vol. 1 #32 (November 1951): "The Man Below Zero" |
| Plastic Man Vol. 1 #32/2 (November 1951): [The Menace of Mr. Fission] |
| Plastic Man Vol. 1 #32/3 (November 1951): "The Hollow Heels" |
| Plastic Man Vol. 1 #33 (January 1952): "The Overlord of Crime" |
| Plastic Man Vol. 1 #33/2 (January 1952): "Photo Finish" |
| Plastic Man Vol. 1 #33/3 (January 1952): [The Kid Kidnappers] |
| Plastic Man Vol. 1 #34 (March 1952): "Smuggler's Haven" |
| Plastic Man Vol. 1 #34/2 (March 1952): [Wolf Men] |
| Plastic Man Vol. 1 #34/3 (March 1952): [The Army Saboteurs] |
| Plastic Man Vol. 1 #35 (April 1952): "The Porcupine" |
| Plastic Man Vol. 1 #35/2 (April 1952): "The Hypnotist" |
| Plastic Man Vol. 1 #35/3 (April 1952): [The Deadly Dr. Quomquat] |
| Plastic Man Vol. 1 #36 (July 1952): "The Uranium Underground" |
| Plastic Man Vol. 1 #36/2 (July 1952): [The Malicious Magician] |
| Plastic Man Vol. 1 #36/3 (July 1952): "The Invisible Invaders" |
| Plastic Man Vol. 1 #37 (September 1952): "Giant Ants" |
| Plastic Man Vol. 1 #37/2 (September 1952): [The Border Bandits] |
| Plastic Man Vol. 1 #37/3 (September 1952): [At the Center of the Earth] |
| Plastic Man Vol. 1 #38 (November 1952): "The Fight Against Germ Warfare" |
| Plastic Man Vol. 1 #38/2 (November 1952): "The Curse of Monk Mauley" |
| Plastic Man Vol. 1 #38/3 (November 1952): "Wrath of the Wig" |
| Plastic Man Vol. 1 #39 (January 1953): "The Stairway to Madness" |
| Plastic Man Vol. 1 #39/2 (January 1953): "In the Fourth Dimension" |
| Plastic Man Vol. 1 #39/3 (January 1953): "The Hounds of Horror" |
| Plastic Man Vol. 1 #40 (March 1953): "Maker of Monsters" |
| Plastic Man Vol. 1 #40/2 (March 1953): "Ghoul of Ghost Swamp" |
| Plastic Man Vol. 1 #40/3 (March 1953): "Yesterday's Murders" |
| Plastic Man Vol. 1 #41 (May 1953): "Beast with the Bloody Claws" |
| Plastic Man Vol. 1 #41/2 (May 1953): "The Bounding Bandit" |
| Plastic Man Vol. 1 #41/3 (May 1953): "The Red Wreckers of Rangistan" |
| Plastic Man Vol. 1 #42 (July 1953): "The Witch of Wailing Woods" |
| Plastic Man Vol. 1 #42/2 (July 1953): "The King of Thunderbolts" |
| Plastic Man Vol. 1 #42/3 (July 1953): "The Little Man Who Wasn't There" |
| Plastic Man Vol. 1 #43 (November 1953): "The Evil Terror" |
| Plastic Man Vol. 1 #43/2 (November 1953): "The Monster of Flame" |
| Plastic Man Vol. 1 #43/3 (November 1953): "The Death Trap" |
| Plastic Man Vol. 1 #45 (March 1954): "The Inhuman Brute" |
| Plastic Man Vol. 1 #45/2 (March 1954): [Lotus Lantern] |
| Plastic Man Vol. 1 #46 (May 1954): "Plastic Man Meets the Spider" |
| Plastic Man Vol. 1 #47 (July 1954): "The Fiend of the Thousand Faces" |
| Plastic Man Vol. 1 #48 (September 1954): "Killer Crossbones" |
| Plastic Man Vol. 1 #49 (November 1954): "The Fiendish Mastermind" |
| Plastic Man Vol. 1 #50 (December 1954): "Trio of Tyranny" |
| Plastic Man Vol. 1 #51 (January 1955): "The Incredible Sleep Weapon" |
| Plastic Man Vol. 1 #52 (February 1955): "The Indestructible Wizard" |