Plastic Man #56
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeIn "The Man Who Broke the Law of Gravity," Plastic Man tracks a bank robber who’s slipped through his fingers, only to find the culprit has teamed up with an old criminal ally, Pitch Penny, who’s developed a revolutionary plasticizer. With the formula spreading fast, ordinary people begin to twist and stretch like Plastic Man himself—turning the city into a living, malleable maze. Jack Cole’s dynamic art brings the bizarre chaos to life, while the cover by Charles Nicholas and Chuck Cuidera captures the moment the world starts to bend.
When Plastic Man investigates the theft of Professor Gimmick's gravity-defying watch, he and Woozy Winks cross paths with Weightless Wiggins—a criminal who discovers the device can make anything he touches float, giving him the perfect tool for an audacious armored-truck robbery. As Plastic Man moves to stop the heist, he'll need to figure out how to ground a crook who literally can't be knocked down.
Woozy Winks is hard at work on his autobiography, but his past misadventures—and those of his associates—prove far too scandalous for comfort when word of the manuscript spreads. Everyone from Swindle to Worla to a mysterious blackmailer wants to get their hands on the tell-all book, leading to a frantic chase involving stolen carbon copies, hired thugs, and a relentless pursuit to suppress the juiciest details. It's a wild romp through the hazards of memoir-writing in a world where everyone has something to hide.
In "Plague of Plastic People!", Plastic Man tracks a bank messenger's assailant, only to see the culprit, Merkle, escape and reunite with his old partner, Pitch Penny—now a mad scientist with a revolutionary plasticizer. With the formula in hand, Merkle begins turning innocent bystanders into malleable, stretchable duplicates of himself, turning the city into a living, shifting maze of rubbery chaos.
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↩ Reprints Plastic Man #22 (1950), Plastic Man #23 (1950), Plastic Man #25 (1950), Plastic Man #30 (1951)
Reprinted in Blackhawk #2 (1956), Gwandanaland Comics #3170 (2021), Hit Comics #16 (2023)
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