Police Comics #63

This February 1947 Quality Comics issue puts Plastic Man's reality-bending abilities on full display, with his goggled head perched atop an impossibly elongated neck — stretched into a makeshift periscope — while a wide-eyed, hat-wearing villain fills the foreground, completely unaware he's being observed from above. The cover blurb promises "Plastic Man Catches The Crab!," and with a cityscape silhouetted in the background adding urban atmosphere, Jack Cole's cover art (pencils and inks both his own) delivers the mix of humor and tension that made this series such a pleasure. Sixty pages for a dime made Police Comics one of the genuine bargains of the era.