Police Comics #91

Police Comics #91 (June 1949) sends Plastic Man into the great outdoors for "The Forest Primeval," and Jack Cole's cover captures the stretchy hero at his most delightfully unhinged — his elongated red form twisted impossibly tall while birds perch on his outstretched arm and a squirrel watches from a nearby tree. Below him, a rotund fellow in a green polka-dot shirt, a couple of red-scarved kids, and a gun-toting crook scrambling to escape make for a wonderfully chaotic woodland scene, with a rabbit and a broken bear trap rounding out the mayhem. Interior art by Alex Kotzky and a script from Gwen Hansen promise the same energetic wit that makes this era of Quality Comics such a treat.