Police Comics #71

Police Comics #71 from Quality Comics delivers a wonderfully chaotic October 1947 cover by Jack Cole, showing Plastic Man — his head comically flattened into a barrel shape by a mallet — caught between a sneering, anchor-tattooed tough in a striped shirt and a wide-eyed crook in a polka-dot jacket. The cover teases that Plastic Man "finds a special brand of trouble," and judging by the flying fists and scrambled limbs on display, that's no understatement. Cole's rubbery, slapstick energy is in full force here, making this a genuinely fun snapshot of the stretch-hero's Golden Age adventures.