PLAYBOY, PLASTIC MAN, & the COMICS CODE - Jack Cole was one of the BEST cartoonists ever!
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- Did Jack Cole influence Will Eisner's Spirit titles?! Warren Bernard brought POLICE COMICS 13 (Plastic Man), some Jack Cole Playboy art, and Murder, Morphine, and Me (the classic True Crime comic that led to the Comics Code)! Enjoy one of the greatest comic book artists of the Golden Age of comics - JACK COLE!
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Nothing makes me happier than seeing books set free.
I heard Chip Kidd speak about 17 years ago and he talked about how disappointed he was with that Plastic Man cover. He had envisioned the entire cover looking like Plastic Man's costume, solid red with the iconic yellow belt wrapping across the middle as if Plastic Man himself had taken the shape of the book. The final version was forced on him by the publisher.
Jack Cole is a legend to me. I've been waiting for something like this.
that username ... LOL
I just love reading the DC Plastic man archives. Jack Cole was a master and I’m glad you guys can spread the word of his work. He really needs to be included in the names of all the greats.
You always hear about Jack Cole as one of the legends but it's great to see some of his amazing work. Even better when all of you are there to contextualize him.
Always great to have Uncle Warren show off his goodies.
The videos with Warren Bernard are always my favorite
That Spiegelman-Kidd joint turned me on to Cole’s work. And the way that book presents original printed comics beats contemporary recolors-you can almost smell the pulp.
Man, I love it when Warren B. is in the house!
Love Jack Cole! I’m glad to see he make it on the show!
Worth picking up DC's Plastic Man Archives series of books. Nearly all stories by Cole.
That panel in the morphine story where Mary's staring into the guys eyes and so close she's "breathing his breath" is pretty hot stuff even now and unlike anything I ever saw in a comic.
Also, more Quality Comics, please.
I first saw Plastic Man when he was a member of the JLA during Grant Morrison’s run on the title. I always felt he was so out of placed in the DC universe and then when I discovered Jack Cole I knew why. He was created for a different publisher, lol.
The funny thing about Jack Cole’s Plastic Man is that he’s written like if Adam West’s Batman had stretching powers. Jack Cole’s Plastic Man is a fairly serious person with a GOOFY super power, and his villains and sidekick, Woozy Winks, are much goofier than he is. I think that’s so interesting.
THE HUMAN BOMB is by Paul Gustavson who created The Angel at Timely (Marvel). Great stuff! Steele Kerrigan is by Al Bryant and it's very nice too.
ONE OF BEST COMICS EVER...
There is a lot of talent on display in that issue, even in the backup features. Frankly much more than many Timely and DC titles of similar vintage that I've seen...
That live action Plastic Man we had in the 80s, tho, hosting cartoons like Mighty Man & Yuk and Fangface
YES!!! Thank you for this! Jack Cole is amazing and I'm forever in his debt for bringing Plas into the world. You gents continue to kick ass eight ways to Sunday. Keep up the great work.
Alex Ross' JUSTICE story involving the Justice League had an interesting page or so devoted to a confrontation / conversation between Plastic Man and Elongated Man / Ralph Dibney. The gist of it was something about how Ralph saw himself as the official Justice League stretchy guy and that he thought Plastic Man just wasn't needed, but Plas one-upped Ralph with some sort of line about maybe Ralph should just stop worrying about how many stretchy guys there are and just try to live up to being a superhero of Justice League caliber.
Fantagraphics did a great Cole book .... Classic Pin-Up Art of Jack Cole. It's worth an episode.
10:00 DC brought Firebrand back in the 80s in All-Star Squadron thanks to Roy Thomas and Jerry Ordway. Reinvisioned as Danette Reilly, the younger sister of the original Firebrand, Rod Reilly. Since then the character has even appearred on TV shows like smalville and and cartoons like Young Justice. And that's either Iger or Crandall.
With the tools laid I out I thought for a second this was a Red Room video. I was eye balling that switch blade, be hilarious If you guys muffled your voices while your cracking this thing open and wore gloves.
Plastic Man! One of my favorite characters.
Can't recall if Plas' guest role on the Super Friends or one of his in DC Presents and Brave and the Bold were my 1st introduction to him. But I know that between those and the later two Sat morning series of his that he was already a favorite of mine by the time I finally saw Cole's original stories reprinted. I prefer the more serious take on him Roy Thomas has in All-Star Squadron, but boy do I have major respect for originality Cole was able to deliver every single time. Jim Carey in his younger days would've made a great live version of him. Lol, and nice to see #711; one of the only superheroes I ever saw murdered in his own series and use the investigation of the crime to hand it over to a new hero (Comet and Hangman being the other time).
Thanks for doing this video and keeping the name of Jack Cole moving forward through history. Even with all its notoriety, "Murder, Morphine and Me" was the epitome of the breathless, relentless storytelling of the time period. And that so-called "doctor" totally missed the point: it was very much an anti-drug, cautionary story.
In that Steranko book you can see Cole was making up to $50 a page in the '40's plus bonuses up to $2500. Pretty nice money back then but I'm sure it paled in comparison to that sweet Playboy money a few years later.
That's amazing.
I honestly know nothing about Plastic Man beyond that cartoon series from the 70s (which I remember loving). Strangely enough, the cartoon was set up as a kind of mockumentary/reality show decades ahead of their time, with Plastic-Man being portrayed as a kind of celebrity super-hero.
Firebrand definitely showed up at DC after the acquisition... pretty sure he was a player in ALL-STAR SQUADRON.
I remember a female Firebrand with same costume in All Star Squadron from the 80's
Iirc that instructional work was not by Jack Cole, but was one of the instructionals from a mail in art class that he signed up for
3:45 -- that makes it more than just a common comic book review, it's like legit comic book sommeliers talking. Most comic book reviews around never even touch on the aspect of the distinct European fragrances of comics, or bande dessinée, as the French would say. Much less the proper type of wooden shelves to properly preserve it during the storage and so forth.
Gog
Getting real apocalyptic up in here
Plasticman ist einer der unmöglichen Karaktären die ich nicht mag, zu Lachhaft.