Comic Title: Police Comics #1
Publisher: Quality (Comic Magazines, Inc.)
Address: 322 Main Street, Stamford, CT
Cover Date: August 1941
On Sale Date: May 14, 1941 Copyright Date May 14, 1941
Source: Library of Congress, Periodicals 1941

Frequency: Monthly
Cover Price: $0.10
Page Count: 64
Editor: Edward C. Cronin

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

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

Writer/Artist: Jack Cole

Reprinted In:
Great Comic Book Super-Heroes HC (1965)
Great Comic Book Super-Heroes SC (1965)
DC Special #15 (1971)
Secret Origins of the Super DC Heroes HC (1976)
Secret Origins of the Super DC Heroes SC (1976)
Plastic Man Archives Vol. 1 HC (1999)
Millennium Edition:Police Comics 1 (#40) (2000)
Plastic Man 80-Page Giant #1 (2004)

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.