Police Comics #10 features Omar a bumbling Western Union worker who aspires to become a real cop. He gets mixed up with Plastic Man who is chasing a group of saboteurs that have stolen a powerful weapon. (This marks the second time Plastic Man works with a partner.) The chase leads them on to a liner ship headed to Panama where Plastic Man and Omar discover that the ships crew are also saboteurs.



Police Comics #11 starts off with the coolest looking splash page yet.



The story starts in Olde Timey London where one of doctor Cyrus Smythe's experiments goes horribly wrong leaving his body paralyzed but his mind still conscious. His body is laid to rest however his brain survives trapped in a living hell vowing revenge on all mankind. Flash forward to the present (1942) Tad Wilkins ships off to war. At an airfield near London he is severely injured when an enemy bomb explodes also unearthing Smythe's living brain. His fellow soldiers rush him to the hospital thinking that Smythe's brain belongs to Wilkins. The doctors are able to save him however they assume Wilkins now has amnesia. Smythe resumes his research at Tad's home and Wilkins' family realizes he is acting strangely. Fearing he may kill someone they inform the police and Plastic Man is sent to help where he discovers the family home destroyed, his parents killed and a trail of giant feet and hand prints. Plastic Man follows and finds that Wilkins has turned into a giant. The destruction he causes attracts the attention of Si Ray and his mob who decide to join forces. In their second fight Wilkins eats Plastic Man whole and while inside Plastic Man is able to choke him. Upon dying Wilkin's body shrinks back to normal size however it's revealed that Cyrus Smythe's brain still lives!

*This is the first issue where the Mouthpiece back up story is replaced by Will Eisner's The Spirit.



In Police Comics #12 professional model Rita Johns is being blackmailed by gangster Looie the Rat who threatens to reveal the fact that she is actually bald to the world. Plastic Man intervenes but Rita refuses to press charges in fear that if her condition was revealed it would ruin her career. After visiting his fortune teller the black mailer decides to put a $10,000 hit out on Plastic Man. With the whole city out for his head Plastic Man decides to confront Looie the Rat but is trapped instead. Looie threatens to kill Plastic Man if Rita doesn't pay up which she does but then calls the police. On his way back to his hide out Looie is followed by and old bald man with a hunchback and long beard. Looie again asks his fortune teller for advice but he's unaware that the fortune teller had been knocked unconscious by the mysterious old man. Instead Looie is advised to go shake Rita down for money again where the cops are waiting to arrest him. It's revealed that the old man is actually Rita in disguise come to save Plastic Man.  Plastic Man returns the favor by recommending a scalp specialist to cure Rita's baldness.



Police Comics #13 is the first appearance of Woozy Winks! While out fishing Woozy saves the life of a man who gifts him with the protection of nature making him invulnerable. Plastic Man is called to the aid of sculptor Homer Twitchel and follows a trail of clay to find Woozy about to saw off one of Twitchel's arms. Plastic Man tries to apprehend Woozy but is continually thwarted by natural occurrences. As Eel O'Brian he discovers that Woozy is being paid to destroy Twitchel's statues by an art collector who wishes to increase the value of his own collection. Plastic Man convinces Woozy to turn himself in and repay his debt to society. Still Captain Murphy isn't happy and he wants Plastic Man and Woozy Winks to bring in Eel O'Brian.



In Police Comics #14 Plastic Man and Woozy Winks are ordered by Captain Murphy to apprehend Eel O'Brian. Woozy Winks pick pockets a man and finds a picture of Eel O'Brian. Plastic Man follows him to learn that the man's boss is searching to partner with Eel O'Brian.  Meanwhile Woozy investigates a rest home for old men that forces them into slave labor. He is forced onto a submarine where the men are ordered to scavenge cargo from recently sunken ships and eventually rescued by Plastic Man. As Eel O'Brian he allows Woozy winks to arrest him for the reward money only to escape again.

Boreas the North Wind narrates Police Comics #15 where a group of scientists decide to study Plastic Man. When Woozy Winks arrives they become fascinated with his natural protection ability. During the commotion one of the scientists Doctor Egrett is murdered. Plastic Man tries to apprehend the murderer but he's shot in the face with gas and the man escapes. Back at the scene of the murder Woozy finds a subway key in the victims wallet and decides to investigate. Inside the subway locker he finds a suitcase with a homing pigeon inside. Plastic Man's search leads him to Mexico City where he discovers that the man he was following is actually with the F.B.I. He explains that he was chasing the actual murderer Ratty McGoon who is part of a spy ring that stole Dr. Egrett's invention that can control the weather. Plastic Man and the F.B.I. Agent rush off to the criminals' headquarters as the weather machine is activated. Woozy borrows a plane and follows the homing pigeon. At the spy ring's head quarters their leader Don Snitzel and his men are confronted by Plastic Man while the F.B.I. Agent wrecks the weather machine. Both Plastic Man and the F.B.I. Agent are knocked out and as their captors begin to torture them Woozy Winks crashes his plane into their head quarters. Now freed Plastic Man stops Snitzel and the rest of his men who had began their attack on the now frozen city.



Plastic Man goes undercover on a reservation in Police Comics #16 to stop a revolt against the United States by a tribal chief named Chief Great Warrior. Plastic Man interrupts the chief's call to rebellion by transforming into a totem poll causing the tribe to turn against him. Chief Great Warrior vows revenge as he escapes by jumping into quick sand but mysteriously leaves no reflection. Days later as Will Hawes arrives home he is greeted by the reflection of Chief Great Warrior in his mirror. Chief Great Warrior now has the ability to hypnotize people which he uses to force Hawes into mailing letters. The next day one of the letters arrives at the radio station and another sent to Plastic Man informs him to listen to the radio station's Friday night program. During the program the announcer tells the letter recipients to look for their "surprises" which turn out to be deadly for all except Plastic Man and Woozy Winks.  Back at Will Hawes' home the reflection of Chief Great Warrior in the mirror tells Hawes that he's the one responsible. Furious Hawes smashes the mirror and tries to escape but he keeps seeing Chief Great Warrior's reflection everywhere. After smashing numerous windows in town he's arrested by police but they don't believe his story. Chief Great Warrior's reflection reveals himself to Plastic Man and hypnotizes him ordering him to destroy the city. Plastic Man goes on a rampage destroying things throughout town. Woozy Winks protests his innocents saying that Plastic Man has been hypnotized but no one believes him either. Police are finally able to knock out Plastic Man and he's taken back to police headquarters. Woozy Winks brings in the son of Chief Great Warrior to convince Chief Great Warrior to clear Plastic Man's name. Chief Great Warrior's reflection confesses and disappears for good.



In Police Comics #17 Plastic Man and Woozy Winks attend a play where when the lights go out a grizzly murder occurs backstage. Before he died Director Steinmetz was sent a telegram inviting the entire cast to stay at a haunted house for the weekend. That night as the crew arrives they are surprised to see that Steinmetz is one of the guests. He claims his neck wound wasn't fatal and that he's there to find out who tried to murder him. It's revealed that they all dislike him and that their host is the writer of the play Gar Crotchet, a blind man who owns a seeing pet jaguar. Woozy Winks' cowardice accidentally reveals that Steinmetz is actually Plastic Man is disguise. The lights go out again and Dave another actor is murdered, this time his face is brutally torn off. Another actor Stanley Vane says that his wallet has gone missing. He wants whoever stole it to place it on the book shelf and he turns the lights out again. When the lights come back on it appears that Stanley too has been murdered and that Dave's body is missing. Plastic Man orders everyone to their rooms so that he get solve this mystery. In a secret passage way he encounters the murderer is disguise who is revealed as Stanley Vane. Stanley confesses that he killed Steinmetz because he found out that Vane and Dave's wife were in love. Steinmetz threatened to expose their affair so Vane murdered him. Dave was going to expose Vane as the murderer so Vane killed him too.



Plastic Man and The Spirit share equal space on the cover of Police Comics #18. Plastic Man gets drafted by the army but Woozy Winks doesn't want him to go. Woozy decides to hire gangster Pogo Flinch to shoot at Plastic Man as he's leaving even offering to sign a confession. Pogo decides to use Woozy as a scapegoat in his plan to murder Professor Van Dyke and steal his secret invention. Woozy finds out that he's wanted for murder and confronts his framers but they knock him out, tape guns to his hands and drug him. Plastic Man hears the news and as Eel O'Brian he finds the crooks that framed Woozy. He follows them back to Van Dyke's laboratory. After getting them to confess to framing Woozy Winks Plastic Man gets a message from the President urging him to join the F.B.I.



In Police Comics #19 Plastic Man is sent by the F.B.I. to investigate the disappearances of axe-men at a lumber company. He discovers a plot of land where the trees are attacking people. After rescuing the axe-men they discover a house in the woods guarded by an electric fence, a wall of fire and a barrier of buzz saws. The owner is a mad scientist who created the animal tree hybrids but was trapped when the trees became man eaters. With the electric fence down the trees attack however unable to get past the wall of flame they start a forest fire. Woozy Winks spots the fire and contacts the forest rangers who come to the rescue.

Is that hinge in issue 21 supposed to look like a giant phallus spearing plastic man and peeping out the other side or have i gone and werthamed it

Yeah, Cole's "Plastic Man" is by far my favorite Golden Age superhero comic.  Only CC Beck's Captain Marvel comes close.

Plastic Man and Woozy Winks go after butter bootleggers in Police Comics #30. They learn that Gooie Louie's mob is hiding out at a Hay Hollow farm and Woozy remembers that his uncle Blinky Winks owns a farm near there. When they get to Hay Hollow they learn that Gooie Louie's mob is forcing the farmers to churn butter for them to sell on the black market. This is an exceptionally goofy issue with plenty of laughs from uncle Blinky who's hard of hearing to a talking cow that shows up for no reason in a single panel.



Plastic Man goes undercover in Police Comics #31 to bust draft dodgers. He discovers a Mayhem Clinic run by The Mangler who escapes and kidnaps Woozy Winks leaving only Woozy's hat, a trail of blood and a note. In the note The Mangler threatens to hurt Woozy if Plastic Man comes looking for him. However when The Mangler tries to hurt Woozy his natural protection powers kick in which allows Plastic Man to find the house and bust The Mangler's gang.



In Police Comics #32 Plastic Man is doing is job so well that the jail has become overcrowded and the cops are over worked. So Chief Branner orders him to take a vacation. Woozy Winks suggests they visit La Cucaracha Mexico. Coincidentally gang lords Mopes McGee and The Mask have decided to hold their crime convention in La Cucaracha. Plastic Man and Woozy disguise themselves as women so that no one will know they've left town. Mopes McGee, The Mask and the other crime bosses have also disguised them selves in drag and arrive at the same plane. Plastic Man and Woozy immediately recognize them as men and devise a plan to get them to out themselves by fighting among themselves. When the crime bosses disguises are exposed Plastic Man reveals himself and attempts to apprehend them. During the struggle Woozy in thrown from the plane and Plastic Man jumps out after him. Once they're safe they decide to walk the rest of the way to La Cucaracha. They arrive in town during a fiesta celebrating the arrival of a famous bull fighter El Torero Pancho. Plastic Man suspects the crime bosses will attend and they decide to check into their hotel where El Torero Pancho is also staying. Woozy discovers the crime bosses have rooms right across the hall. He decides to follow them but because his cloths were left on the plane he has to an outfit that happens to be Pancho's costume. After going outside Woozy is mistaken for Pancho and taken by the crowd to the arena. Plastic Man follows the crime bosses to the arena and discovers Woozy being chased by a bull. Plastic Man manages to apprehends the crime bosses and save Woozy.



The first story in the second issue has Plastic Man discover a criminal conspiracy run by the mayor of a hidden town whose customs are stuck in the 1890's. In the second story after a man learns the ability to project his personality into other people's bodies he switches bodies with Woozy Winks and then Plastic Man. The third story introduces what is possibly Plastic Man's first super villain. After falling into a volcano while escaping from Plastic Man a bank robber is transformed into living lava. In the forth story Plastic Man is sent to investigate what is causing villagers to turn into murderous lunatics.



In Police Comics #33 Plastic Man meets with the F.B.I. and an aircraft manufacturer. Woozy Winks is upset that he can't join the meeting and keeps trying to get Plastic Man's attention from outside. The aircraft manufacture asks the FBI to guard their remote controlled model plane prototype noting it would be disastrous if it slipped into enemy hands. Just then Woozy throws a brick into the office window with a note for Plastic Man tied to it. The brick smashes the remote control and the model plane flies out the window.  Outside The Hood and his gang are watching and they manage to retrieve the model plane and escape with it. Woozy says that he recognizes The Hood and knows where his hideout is. Plastic Man arrives at their hideout but The Hood traps him in a freezer. While trying to get inside Woozy accidentally knocks out a power line. Without the electricity out Plastic Man is freed. While trying to escape The Hood runs into Woozy who has found his way inside.



Serena Sloop President of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Criminals wants Plastic Man kicked out of the F.B.I. in Police Comics #34. Cheif Branner informs Plastic Man that his next job is to be her bodyguard and protect the $50,000 the women's S.P.C.C. plan to use to reform criminals. Serena has informed the newspapers about the cash and multiple gangs show up to steal it. All hell breaks loose but Serena wont allow Plastic Man to use brute force against the criminals and Loopy Louie's gang is able to steal the cash. Woozy hides Serena's umbrella and blames it on the crooks. Furious she storms off to confront them at their bar hang out. She starts a fight with the gang and encourages Plastic Man and woozy to join in and arrest them.

In Police Comics #35 Chief Branner explains that the court dismissed the charges against Froggy Fink, a criminal that Plastic Man arrested earlier off panel. Plastic Man disguised as Doc Mayhem records Froggy confessing to murder. However Chief Branner says that the Dictaphone record is inadmissible as evidence so they have to let Froggy go. Later Froggy and his criminal cohorts Beetle and Hopper arrive at Doc Mayhem's house. Froggy explains that Doc Mayhem was hypnotizing criminals into writing confessions and that's why Froggy killed him. They begin searching for the written confessions when they are met by Mona Mayhem, Doc Mayhem's cousin and heir. Mona and Froggy decide to discuss a business arrangement black mailing the other criminals that Doc Mayhem had hypnotized. Woozy Winks and Plastic Man arrive and confront Beetle and Hopper. The commotion attracts the attention of Froggy and Mona who escape through a secret passage. Enacting their plan Froggy becomes king of the underworld however he's still controlled by Mona. Mona's fiance Felix arrives upset that Mona has broken off their engagement to live a life of crime. They tell him to leave and distraught Felix decides to jump off a bridge but is rescued by Plastic Man. Plastic Man disguises himself as Felix and returns to Froggy's hideout where he defeats Froggy in a fight. Mona has a change of heart and leaves with Felix not realizing it's Plastic Man in disguise. Froggy assembles his gang and vows revenge. Mona and the disguised Plastic Man return to where he had left Woozy and Felix earlier and they switch back without her knowing. When Froggy and his gang arrive they open fire on Mona and Felix but are saved by Plastic Man. Grateful Mona gives Plastic Man Froggy's written confession. Later at Mona's apartment Froggy's gang arrive and threaten her to hand over the confession. However Mona is actually Plastic Man in disguise waiting to arrest them.



Police Comics #36 starts at Dr. Hiram Brann's Health Farm. The only ways to get there are by road or cable car. As a couple of patients leave Dr. Brann worries about not having enough customers. The couple notice that his business suffers because of the Health Farm's isolated location and Dr. Brann's refusal to advertise. Later in the city Woozy Winks and Plastic Man in disguise arrive at a theater's opening night where a rare diamond necklace will be on display. Slick Dandy as his gang show up and steal the necklace. Plastic Man tries to intervene but is knocked out by a sand bag which allows the crooks to escape. Slick and his gang ditch their car and hike until they find a cable car. They ride it to Dr. Brann's Health Farm and decide to hide out there. They go on a crime spree but the police are unable to catch them. Plastic Man takes a glove left at one of the crime scenes to a lab. Analyzing it he identifies Slick Dandy as the culprit from to the fingerprints left on the inside of the glove. Meanwhile in an effort to convince Dr. Brann they are legit the crooks are getting up early, exercising and doing chores on the farm. They offer to take his milk to market and go into town using Brann's own truck. They rob a jewelry store, knocking out the salesman and hiding the diamonds in the milk containers. Plastic Man arrives when the police are called by Slick's gang, who dressed as farm hands blame the robbery on someone else. They almost get away with it but Plastic Man recognizes Slick Dandy as the getaway driver. Plastic Man tries to apprehend them but they escape due to Woozy Winks comical blundering. Plastic Man and Woozy go to to Brann's farm before the crooks get there and wait in hiding. After the crooks are apprehended Dr. Brann has plenty of customers due to the newspaper publicity.



Chief Branner gets a tip from a F.B.I. informant in Police Comics #37 that leads Plastic Man to Saxon (who speaks solely in alliteration) and his gang who are stealing allotment checks from soldiers' families.  Plastic Man arrives and arrests the gang but the woman they were with, Felina slips outside unnoticed. She runs into Woozy Winks and immediately starts flirting with him. The gang are able to escape from police custody and Saxon contacts Felina who is still with Woozy. She tells Woozy that she has a business meeting and that she'll meet him later. Woozy leaves but sees Saxon arrive at Felina's. Saxon informs Felina that he'll be using her place to call a gang meeting. Chief Branner gets another tip from his informant about Saxon's meeting and gives Plastic Man the address while Woozy meets with Felina. At Saxon's meeting Plastic Man disguised as Biscuit Bardoni tricks Saxon into signing a confession. Police manage to arrest the gang but Saxon escapes. Later Plastic Man confronts Felina while she's on her date with Woozy. Woozy vouches for her and while Plastic Man and Woozy are arguing she slips away and runs into Saxon who's waiting for her. He tells her to set a trap for Woozy who he believes is the FBI informant. She calls Woozy at home and tells him that she will come over later. Plastic Man over hearing devices a plan. Felina and Saxon arrive at Woozy's house and tie him up. After Saxon admits his plan to murder Woozy, Felina turns the gun on him. However the gun is empty and Saxon reveals that he planned to get her to reveal herself as the traitor. Saxon tries to kill her but Plastic Man who had disguised himself as Woozy intervenes. Felina helps Plastic Man who manages to knock out Saxon. Felina confesses that she infiltrated Saxon's gang after he stole allotment checks from her family. Woozy is left wondering if Felina actually liked him or if she was just using him.



Police Comics #38 features another of my favorite splash pages (although that seems like a strange way to punch someone).



A one million dollar reward is offered for the deaths of Plastic Man and Professor Zwerling by Boss Skullman. Plastic Man and Woozy rush over to Professor Zwerling's laboratory to warn him. Rocky Goober arrives at Boss Skullman's hideout and says he has a plan to kill Plastic Man. At the laboratory Plastic Man tells the Professor not to leave the building and tells Woozy to stand guard. Plastic Man then decides to rest outside in the grass where Rocky Goober is waiting in disguise. While Plastic Man takes a nap Rocky paints black dots over Plastic Man's goggles. Plastic Man wakes up thinking he's seeing spots. Rocky offers to help taking Plastic Man to get a drink which Rocky fills with acid. Plastic Man doesn't drink it but pretends he has. Thinking Plastic Man dead Boss Skullman's gang rob a bank only to be stopped by Plastic Man. Boss Skullman escapes and confronts Rocky Goober about Plastic Man still being alive. Rocky dumps a can of black paint over Plastic Man's eyes, stuffs him inside a canon and shoots him into a sawmill. Thinking that Plastic Man has disguised himself as a log Rocky uses the industrial saw to cut through all the lumber. Rocky then discovers Plastic Man disguised as a sawmill worker and hits him with a boxing glove on a spring then sprays him with a hose. Plastic Man then crawls into another hose which Rocky stretches over train tracks. Thinking Plastic Man cut into pieces by a passing train Rocky leaves. Plastic Man who was actually stretched under the train tracks heads back to Professor Zwerling's lab. He finds Woozy asleep and what looks like the Professor having committed suicide. However the facts point to murder and the suicide being staged.  Plastic Man finds Rocky still hiding in the lab. Woozy attacks and captures Rocky and turns him over to the police. The real Professor Zwerling returns to his lab and Plastic Man explains to Woozy that the dead Professor was a actually dummy, part of a trap they set to catch Rocky.



After his wealthy British uncle passes away Woozy Winks inherits his estate in Police Comics #39. He also learns that all the past Earls including his uncle have been beheaded. So Plastic Man and Woozy travel to Valmoral Castle on the island of Bladau. They find out from Woozy's cousin Pilson that the castle is haunted by The Knight of the Tower, a ghost who was beheaded by the first Earl of Valmoral for a crime he didn't commit. That night Woozy is attacked by The Knight of the Tower who carries him off to the guillotine. Plastic Man woken by Woozy scream's for help finds himself glued to the bed. He's able to bring the mattress with him and save Woozy however the knight escapes. Woozy uses the guillotine to cut Plastic Man from the mattress and goes back to bed. Again he's visited by The Knight of the Tower but this time Plastic Man is waiting to intervene. They chase the knight out of the castle and into a swamp where the knight gets trapped in quicksand. The knight is revealed as Pilson who confesses to murdering Woozy's uncle. When they return to the castle they discover that Woozy is not the real heir and has been mistaken for some one named Moozy Winks.

One of the best series in the 40's/50's. Consistently great. Innovative. Pure creative genius by Cole.