Having mastered comic books and gag cartoons, in 1958, nearly two decades after he unveiled Plastic Man to the world, Jack Cole set his sights on the cartoonist's pot of gold — a syndicated newspaper strip. He hit the bull's-eye with Betsy and Me, a breezy domestic farce focusing on a middle-class urban couple and their smart-aleck genius son. Cole stripped his style down to its bare essentials, creating a strip that sparkles with economy, wit, and charm. What gave the strip its edge, however, was Cole's innovative storytelling, which utilized ironic tension between protagonist Chet Tibbit's words and actions to reveal him as fatuous and delusional. Betsy and Me was an instant success and newspapers were lining up to buy it. Then, with only two-and-a-half months' worth of strips completed, Cole purchased a .22 caliber pistol and ended his life. R.C. Harvey's insightful introduction serves as a biographical sketch and sheds light on the circumstances surrounding Cole's suicide.

When Dr. Jonathan Weir revived dozens of actual Golden Age heroes from his Vault to battle The Black Shroud, (In the pages of AC's Femforce monthly.) Lev Gleason's original Daredevil was among them. Renamed Reddevil, (for obvious copyright reasons ) he resumed his crime fighting career in the AC universe of today, and became a popular supporting character in Femforce. When the whole revived gang is sitting around HQ and telling stories about great battles of the past, Reddevil cannot help reliving his epic battles with the gigantic alien monster known as The Claw, back in the early 1940's. Odd thing about it is, though the listeners he's entertaining with this tale are all from his era, NO ONE ELSE seems to remember any of this!! They ALL begin to worry for Reddevil's mental health, until The Claw suddenly appears in Central Florida!!...

Jack Cole is widely acclaimed for his brilliant work on his creation, the superhero Plastic Man. But he didn't just stretch people's imaginations, he also frightened them out of their wits! Cole's comics in this genre were some of the most grisly, horrifyingly gut-wrenching art and stories in the history of comics! In Jack Cole's Deadly Horror you'll read comic stories from the 1950s with titles like 'Orgy of Death,' 'Hangman's Horror,' 'The Corpse That Wouldn't Die,' 'A Pact With The Devil,' and many more spine-tingling tales. Introduced by Eisner Award winning comics historian Craig Yoe with rare art and background material. This large format full color book is part of the acclaimed Chilling Archives of Horror Comics, which includes Dick Briefer's Frankenstein, Bob Powell's Terror, and Zombies!

A freewheeling collection of Plastic Man stories spanning three decades! Reprinting stories from POLICE COMICS #1, POLICE COMICS #13, HOUSE OF MYSTERY #160, PLASTIC MAN VOL. 2 #1 and PLASTIC MAN VOL. 2 #11. Featuring the origin and first appearance of Plastic Man, Woozy Winks and much more!

Series continues as "Modern Comics" (Quality, 1945) starting with issue #44. Issues #1-17 are collected in Blackhawk Archives Vol. 1

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By the time the series ended in the 50’s in issue 64 with artwork by Dick Dillin,  Quality had managed to do what should have been impossible, they made Plastic-Man stiff.

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