Plastic Man #12

Plastic Man's pursuit of the master villain Spadehead takes a dangerous turn when the criminal mastermind forces the brilliant but troubled Doctor Vineyard to create a serum that can neutralize the hero's stretching powers. When Spadehead makes good on his threat at the Corn Trust Bank, Plastic Man discovers firsthand just how vulnerable he becomes without his signature ability—and how far Spadehead will go to keep him out of the way.

In "Riverman," Plastic Man confronts a terrifying aquatic menace—once a man, now a creature of the river, born with gills and monstrous features, exiled to the depths and driven mad by isolation. This eerie, 11-page tale from 1948 pits Plas against a being who is both tragic and monstrous, a last survivor of a forgotten lineage, whose home is the dark, winding current.

When Woozy Winks finds himself at a low point, the eccentric Doctor Screwball offers him a solution: a mysterious backward brew that will make him do everything in reverse—and cure his troubles. But the potion has unexpected consequences, forcing Woozy into a series of topsy-turvy situations that lead him straight into the schemes of two criminals, Bush and Ambush, who need his help to pull off a jewel heist. As Woozy struggles against the brew's effects and his own conscience, he'll have to figure out which way is up before he ends up on the wrong side of the law.

Plastic Man investigates a wave of murders tied to a mysterious figure called Horseface, whose strange influence over race horses is causing betting chaos and triggering deadly retaliation from the mob. When the superhero and his sidekick Woozy Winks head to the track to catch the culprit in action, they uncover a scheme far more cunning than anyone expected. With horses inexplicably stopping mid-race and fortunes shifting at the long odds, Plastic Man devises a bold plan to force Horseface's hand and expose what he's really up to.