Plastic Man #1 is an issue of the series Plastic Man (Volume 1) with a cover date of February, 1944. It was published on December 29, 1943.
Synopsis for "The Game of Death"
Below the Chance Club was a dead body and the murderer was in the club. The club owners had set up new games to entertain the guests, one of which included roulette using frogs. One guest won two rounds in a row, so the club owner asked him to come to his office, only for him to hold him at gunpoint out of suspicion. Mr. King, the man who was being held at gunpoint, revealed that he had used a magnet to cheat and took the owner's gun, using it. Suddenly, the chief bouncer attempted to attack Mr. King, but bounced off, revealing Mr. King to actually be Plastic Man. Plastic Man's friend Woozy Winks was unable to enter through the front, so he entered through an open window and landed on the corpse, believing that he had accidentally killed him. Then, he found Plastic Man and told him that he had killed the man he had landed on earlier. Plastic Man and Woozy went to the F.B.I. headquarters to get help investigating the dead body. They identified the corpse as James Towne and paid his mother a visit for information. Mrs. Towne insisted that her son's fiancée had something to do with his death. Then, Plastic Man appeared on top of the car of Yvette La Rue, James' fiancée and accused her of killing him. The car crashed into a rock and Yvette emerged, attempting to flee from some people, until she was kidnapped by some criminals. She was taken to the leader of the Secret Society of Blood Worshippers and was confronted about convincing James to resign from the organization. Then, she was forced to fight other individuals to the death with a whip. After losing, she had survived, but was sentenced to die at the hands of a tiger. Yvette, in fact, was actually Plastic Man, who was able to defeat the tiger, but was then trapped inside of a glass container. Plastic Man was able to escape and reached for the leader, unmasking him, revealing him to be Woozy, who claimed that he had tricked them into going to the F.B.I. headquarters. Then, Woozy and Plastic Man learned that the true leader of the Society was Mrs. Towne. Back at the F.B.I. headquarters, Chief Branner told Plastic Man and Woozy that the cult had voted to kill James and were therefore, all guilty and that they had found Yvette's dead body in a car accident with slugs in her body. Afterwards, Plastic Man and Woozy left the office and decided to watch a movie called The Bloody Hand.
Appearing in "The Game of Death"
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- Woozy Winks
- Chief Branner (First appearance)
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- Secret Society of Blood Worshippers
- Mrs. Towne
- Sharp
- Tony
- Mike
Other Characters:
- James Towne (Appears only as a corpse)
- Yvette La Rue
- Marquis of Queensbury (Mentioned only)
- Ku Klux Klan (Mentioned only)
- Red Cross (Mentioned only)
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- Chance Club
- F.B.I. Headquarters
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Synopsis for "Now You See It, Now You Don't"
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Synopsis for "Willie McGoon, Dope"
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Synopsis for "Plastic Nemesis"
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Synopsis for "Go West, Young Plastic Man, Go West"
Appearing in "Go West, Young Plastic Man, Go West"
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Notes
- This issue was reprinted in Plastic Man Archives Vol. 2.
- Only "The Game of Death" and "Plastic Nemesis" have actual titles in the comic. The other titles were created for the issue's page at the Grand Comics Database to aid in identification.
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