Comic Title: Great Comic Book Super-Heroes HC
Publisher: Dial Press
Cover Date: 1965
On Sale Date: November 15, 1965 Copyright Date November 15, 1965
Source: Library of Congress, Pamphlets 1965

Cover Price: $9.95
Page Count: 192

Notes:
A second edition was published by Bonanza Books/Crown Publishing

Title: (The Origin of Plastic Man)
Pages: 6

Feature(s):
Plastic Man (of Earth-2)

Writer/Artist: Jack Cole

Reprinted From:
Police Comics #1 (1941)

Feature Character(s)

• Plastic Man (Eel O'Brian; next appearance in Police Comics #2)

Villain(s)

• Skizzle Shanks and his mob (Eel's gang; no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• A monk and a bank messenger (no further appearances)

Comments:
This story was not originally titled.

Synopsis:
Gangster Eel O'Brian joins his mob in the robbery of the Crawford Chemical Works. During his escape from the crime scene Eel is wounded and acid spills into the wound. He still manages to stagger to safety where he is found by a kindly monk. The monk nurses Eel back to health, showing him that his life has gone wrong. Eel decides to reform.

Before leaving the monk's retreat, Eel also discovers that the acid has given him incredible stretching powers. He decides to put his new abilities to work against crime, beginning with his old gang. When the crooks try to rob a bank messenger, Eel goes into action as Plastic Man. Using his amazing abilities to change shape and stretch his body, Plastic Man apprehends the gang and turns them in to police. He then returns their stolen loot, feeling that crime fighting is a fun adventure.