Jack Cole Libri

Patrick “Eel” O’Brian’s life of crime just became a whole lot stranger! After an unfortunate accident leaves Eel’s body transformed to have the properties of rubber, Plastic Man is born! But can Eel overcome his worst impulses and use his new abilities for good?DC Finest continues, a major publishing initiative presenting comprehensive collections of the most in-demand and celebrated periods in DC Comics history, spanning genres, characters, and eras!Uncover the origin of one of DC’s wackiest heroes in this collection spanning the early days of Plastic Man! He can bounce, stretch, and crack wise, but can he save the day? And, more importantly, does he even want to? What business does a petty crook have playing superhero anyway?This volume collects Police Comics #1-36; Plastic Man #1-2.

Five stories that take middle-grade students on new adventures from the jungles of India to the coast of Maine. Features the titles A New Place Called Home, A Ten Dollar Bill, Lost Time, Treasure Wasting Away, and Solu Soliga.

In the rarefied realm of classic cartoon pin-up art, nobody did it better than Jack Cole. With his quirky line drawings and sensual watercolors, Cole, under Hugh Hefner's guiding hand, catapulted to stardom in the 1950s as <em>Playboy</em>'s marquee cartoonist, a position he held until his untimely death at the age of 43. Jack Cole has been justly celebrated as the creator of Plastic Man and an innovative comic book artist of the 1940s (especially in Art Spiegelman and Chip Kidd’s <em>Jack Cole and Plastic Man: Forms Stretched to Their Limits</em>). After finishing his 14-year run on <em>Plastic Man</em>, he found himself looking for something new. According to Cole, his savior was the Humorama line of down-market digest magazines. This girls and gags magazine circuit proved to be the perfect training ground to regain his footing and develop his craft at single panel “gag” cartoons. His ability to render the female form was already without peer. Though he signed his cartoons “Jake,” Cole’s exquisite line drawings and masterful use of ink-wash — a skill he carried over to <em>Playboy</em> — betrayed his pseudonym. In comparison to his contemporaries, however, Cole was probably Humorama’s least prolific artist. Though his images were frequently used for covers, Cole’s cartoons were few and far between, with scarcely a single drawing appearing every five issues. Along with a foreword by editor Alex Chun, this volume (originally released in a now out-of-print hardcover edition that now fetches high prices on the secondhand market) collects the best of these hidden gems, including several shot from Cole’s stunning original art. Most of these drawings have not seen print elsewhere since their original publication.

Plastic Man se s pomocí svého parťáka Woozyho Winkse dostane do celé hromady problémů, když vyjde najevo jeho ne zas tak úplně nevinná minulost a totožnost zločince "Úhoře" O'Briana. Protože je obviněn ze zločinu, který nespáchal, musí se dát na útěk. Dokáže nejohebnější člen JLA zjistit pravdu dřív, než přijde o život někdo, kdo je mu velmi drahý?