The Many First Appearances of Plastic Man
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- Опубліковано 29 сер 2024
- In this captivating UA-cam video, we delve into the fascinating world of Plastic Man and his various first appearances in DC and Quality comics. Join us as we explore the origins and stories of every Plastic Man, including Patrick 'Eel" O'Brien, Woozy Winks and other remarkable plastic men from across the Multiverse. Get ready to uncover a brief history of this iconic characters and their significant contributions to the DC universe. #plasticman #dccomics
Embark on an enthralling journey through the DC universe with this UA-cam video, dedicated to the first appearances of Plastic Man. Discover the captivating stories behind each of his many first appearances. Gain a comprehensive understanding of his origins and witness his evolution throughout history. Join us as we unravel the web of his extraordinary adventures.
Prepare to be amazed by this UA-cam video that explores the debut appearances of Plastic Man and his supporting characters in DC comics. Join us as we unravel the web of his unique powers, compelling storylines, and his undeniable impact on the DC universe.
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Honestly, I think the best way to do a Plastic Man movie is to have him be animated and everyone else is live action without ever addressing it, and they just kinda Roger Rabbit their way through the movie.
I could see that working. Just gloss over his origin and have plastic Man exist as the only animated character in a real world. I kinda dig it
I can see a solid mix of old and new CGI techniques to get him to be really plastic looking … this is a fantastic idea- No Reed Pun Intended.
That's not a bad idea. Maybe Mike O'Brien/Plastic Man shifts from live-action actor to a plasticky CGI form when he becomes Plastic Man?
I really want him to start out as a bank robber who calls his partners "putrid punks" when they desert him.
@@arcadiaberger9204 You could get some really neat body horror stuff out of him climbing out of the chemicals he fell in, then basically melting. Fade cut to Eel waking up in a hospital, and now he’s a cartoon.
@@chefbanjo8139 That does sound nifty.
Eel goes running into the swamp, clutching his shoulder wound, kvetching about the acid in it, not yet noticing that his flesh is literally dripping off him...he is reduced to a literal walking skeleton dragging a pinkish trail with an agonized face behind it, part cartoonishly amusing but part genuinely horrific, like a Fleischer Brothers cartoon, until even the skeleton dissolves into the swamp, just a meter or so from the shore, seemingly having lost his last chance...until a single tendril of protoplasm makes its way onto the muddy bank, and then another, until five slimy tentacles have grasped the bank and begin to pull a length of mucuslike flesh upward, and the bones of a hand slip into the fingers one by one....
His naked, exhausted body finally forms up on the grass and lies there, breathing shallowly, and is found by three or four robed figures.
They eventually differentiated Plastic Man and Elongated Man as follows:
- Plastic Man's powers are permanent, while Elongated Man must regularly consume gingold to maintain his powers (it is also likely that he is a metahuman whose powers are activated via gingold).
- Elongated Man is a master detective who is close to Batman in detective skills.
- Plastic Man has complete control of his body and can assume any shape he chooses, while Elongated Man can just stretch.
Plastic Man is one of the most subtlety powerful characters in comics, his degree of versatility is incredible. I think DC should utilize him more often. Keep making videos like this!
I plan to, thank you very much
With that origin he should have been a Batman villain. Can you imagine the team of Plastic Man and Clayface on a rampage in Gotham?
I love that he has the origin story as the Joker.
That never really occurred to me, good call!
One of the things about classic comics that I didn't appreciate as a kid as much as I've come to as an adult is the convoluted origins of many characters.
When it would get messy, I used to just tune out everything I didn't care for.
Now, I appreciate and enjoy the complexity of older characters's messy histories.
Thanks for this video 🖖
Huh, so Dial H For Hero was sort of like a proto Ben 10.
Oh my God, he really was!
One difference between the original "Dial H For Hero" series and the later version is that:
- There were two dials used by later users were limited to just the letters H E R O.
- The transformation was limited to 1 hour when they revert to normal.
- The heroes they became were created by the readers (in story they were created by a friend of theirs, although he didn't know it at first)
To add to this, the original concept for Ben 10 was for him to transform into 10 different superheros rather than aliens which makes the inspiration all the more obvious. Supposedly the change to aliens was both because it was way too similar to Dial H for Hero and because superheros were very much not in the mainstream vogue with the exception of spider-man at the time the show was in pre-production.
First appearances of Martian Manhunter would be cool
Great call, he's absolutely going onto the list
Jack Cole was a genius and will always be one of my all time favorite artists. I always remember an Art Spiegleman illustration of Plastic Man standing in a museum gallery looking completely perplexed at a Picasso painting.
I've just searched out that image, it looks like it was a cover for the New Yorker. I wish I'd seen that before I made the video haha
I feel like the Creeper had a good number of first appearances. Maybe not as many as Eel did, but with Jack Rider being a character in his own right in a lot of stuff, and his constant retooling with new origin stories, you get a lot of debuts.
Ooooo good call. The Creeper is a great choice for a showcase like this. Thank you.
I've been so happy to see the amount of Plastic Man content coming out lately since I've always loved the character. I think part of the reasoning is because I grew up with Brave and the Bold ngl
Plastic Man Is Awesome In DC Comics!😊
I’ve been hunting for a video like this forever. I love seeing Plas in comics or other media, but I’ve always been shaky on his solo outings. This really helped clear that up magnificently (specifically that business in the Silver Age with his identical son). I’d love to see him get more attention, some reprints, and what the hay a movie probably wouldn’t hurt.
Also I believe I spotted some Star Wars Expanded Universe books in the background, always love finding another EU fan in the wild! Rock on🤘
Thanks for finding it. Yeah Plastic Man got a lot more complicated and in depth as I started researching him.....as I said in the video I figured it would be pre crisis then post Crisis and that was it, but nope, he's pretty all over the place.
And yep, the original Star Wars EU will always hold a special place in my heart. It was the dark times where new Star Wars wasn't on the horizon ..
Ambush bug is another WTF moment around the 80s
I think the reason his many reboots fail comes from the fact that the later writers don't know how to handle Plastic Man. They always make him goofy. In his very successful 40s run, he wasn't goofy. He was actually a fairly straight character, with a redemption arc mentioned from time to time. Crooks were actually afraid of him because he could be anywhere as anything. While his powers were visually strange and goofy, he wasn't. It was that duality that made him different and interesting.
Woozy was there to be goofy. In a way, that duo was the Abbott and Costello of the superhero set during the 40s.
I always think of the 70s Silver Age Batman and his personality and drive. That's how Plastic Man should have been written as, but just having a strange and goofy looking power to go with it.
Very well thought out points. Thank you
This was vey good. Except one thing in the Flaspoint universe Bruce Wayne did exist it’s just that Joe Chill killed him in the alley not his parents. Turning Dr.Thomas Wayne into Batman and Martha Wayne into the Joker.
The dial H for Hero issue in which plastic man appears was a try out issue to see if a series would sell
I'm not even a fan of dc but plastic man has always for some reason been my favorite dc hero
As a Plastic Man fan, I love the description "Top of B-Tier" is perfect
"Nyet, Plastic Man is too Zanny!"
"What about the Creeper?"
"Is Fine."
Awesome Batman impression
Thank you very much
I really liked his origin story in the Brave and the Bold TV show, where Batman was the cause of him accidently falling into the acid and took it upon himself to rehabilitate O'Brian
Plastic Man really is one of the best and most powerful characters DC has very under appreciated glad EEL gets his recognition (eel is my intro into the character so I’ll always think of him first as that portrayal)
Great video was surprised at how small your following was definitely sharing
Thank you very much. This is a relatively new channel so I'm anticipating it growing, but I'm quite pleased with what I've got so far. 😀
The best
Really loved the video .. the batman voice being so good genuinely caught me off guard lol
Thanks. I pride myself a little on my Batman Voice lol
Well done! Subscribed.
Awesome, thank you very much, I appreciate it.
That was a pretty good little retrospective.
Thank you very much
Remarkably thorough and entertaining, but you missed his appearance on the first season of Super Friends in the 1970s - That was my first encounter with him. He also showed up in a reboot secret origin of the Justice League in Justice League of America 144 (first series), but didn't join the team.
really well done video.
i didn't know plastic man until Morrison's JLA. And what amazing stories.
Glad you enjoyed it! Thank you
I first encountered him in the Hanna-Barbera cartoon, and I think my dad mentioned "oh, yeah, I used to read his comics."
That's awesome!
I know you only started a month ago but you SERIOUSLY deserve more attention this is an impressive video for a brand new channel it feels as if you’ve made videos for years
Thank you, this is an awesome comment to read, I appreciate it. I've had another channel previously, though my video quality was lower, so I do have experience on UA-cam, it became more shorts focused then I started this one when I felt my videos were up to snuff for a rebirth of sorts. Glad to hear I'm on the right track, thank you very much
Awesome video!
Thank you very much
Thank you for that breakdown. I've always been a fan of Plastic Man. My first introduction was the syndicated cartoon back in the early 80s and I've loved him ever since.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Maybe Shazam/Captain Marvel would be a good one to do. I think they gave him a few different origins and he’s just had such an interesting history. The 40s Captain Marvel comics really seem like something else but I mean that in the best possible way. I also love how when DC brought all the characters back after they got the rights to them they had to explain that they were in suspended animation the whole time they were gone.
Absolutely
This took too long to hit my algo
The algorithm is my true Nemesis. But it caught you in the end at least
With so many First Appearances, it's a good thing Plastic Man is so... Flexible!
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Well done sit
I remember the animation as a little kid but I don't remember the live action parts. I think I should be glad about that.
Plasticman is my favorite Superhero. My first exposure to him was the animated show from the 70s. I saw it on Cartoon Network back in 95. I had no idea he was a DC super hero at the time. He's my favorite because I do like fun characters and the fact that he is so powerful is quite intriguing. When Batman says you are one of the most powerful beings alive, it must be true.
I also love the origin story. It's interesting because we always saw heroes as average Joes during the day and heroes at night. Plasticman was a villain as his secret identity. Even for the 40s when he was created that is revolutionary
Yeah I still can't figure out why the show existed in the 70s, he hasn't been popular in comics for 30 years at that point. But a lot of folks have seen the show and loved it....I didn't know it existed
And I love the fact that he was still a crook by day. I wish they would have stuck with that longer....or have someone attempt something similar today....like not different personalities or whatever. Like some guy who commits small.crimes for himself to stop the larger ones for the world. There is something there.....
@@HaussmannComics-xd3gn The resurgence in the 70s probably came from someone who was a kid and read his comics.
Kind of like how I feel there has been a huge renaissance with Ninja Turtles and Power Rangers lately. The 90s kids are now grown up and working on shows. I also loved his rouges gallery. Such an interesting and colorful cast.
Maybe the whole Plastic Man's secret ID as a villain was nod to the original Green Hornet, who pretended to be a criminal in order to fight crime.
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Great video!!!!
Thank you
Didn’t know plastic man was cool, cool
Great video.
Thanks! I'm glad you enjoyed it.
Underrated video
Thank you
Plastic Man's most important power is not elasticity or invulnerability or immortality. It's being a name known to the non-comics-reading public.
This, he shares with a small group of characters: Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Spider-Man, the Hulk, the Fantastic Four, Wolverine...that's about it. You mention the Flash, and they'll say, "You mean, Flash Gordon?" Plastic Man, though, they know.
Oh, and the Blackhawks. They're another one.
Not sure how recognizable the Blackhawks would be to the common folks. But Plastic Man is gaining prominence absolutely
@@HaussmannComics-xd3gn I'm sure DC has commissioned polls on which character names non-comics people recognize. It would be interesting to know which names are most recognizable.
Dial H for Hero sounds like a early, super hero version, of Ben 10. I'm kind of interested
Love the series it would be cool if you do Hawkman and his confusing history next
I know I'll have to eventually, but I really don't want to do Hawk Man haha. It's so confusing
The deeply comics moment of
“So anyway, in 1976…”
You got a damn good Batman voice.
Thank you very much
Well researched, as well as executed … bravo 👏
Thank you
A fan of plastic man other than Superman from DC side . I have the 80's plastic man cartoon series on dvd
Alot of what some people don't know or realize about plastic man is he is very powerful and dangerous
impressive batman impression tbh
Thank you
Actually, there was also the Plastic and Baby Plas tv show that was added after the Plastic Man show back in 1980
I think his Rebirth origin having to do with Batman is influenced by The Brave And The Bold, where they adapted his origin into an episode, and Batman was present for all of it.
Oh absolutely. There are many people that believe his B&B origin is cannon to the comics
Think you could look at the weird history of Death's Head? He goes on a multiversal journey of legal complications.
That is a great suggestion actually. Good call thank you
I think my favorite depiction of Plastic Man was when he was arguing with Elongated Man, and it was illustrated by Alex Ross. His hypertealistic style makes Plastic Man look so disgusting and horrifying and I'm kinda down for it.
Yeah, in the series Justice. Plas really lays into EM about how he's not the only stretchy guy
I want the vigilante cowboy explained hes my favorite DC character 😊
Good choice!
I get you had a lot of history to go over, and I really enjoyed the video, but it’s a shame the Kyle Baker run was glossed over so quickly. That was, and remains, a phenomenal series by an award-winning writer and artist.
I've heard great things about that run but have never gone too deep on it myself
I remember seeing his animated show on cartoon network (i think?) in the 90's. Here in sweden he was known as Rubber man.
That makes a heck of a lot more sense
@HaussmannComics-xd3gn I know, right? Plastic sounds way more fragile and non-stretchy 🤭
I actually have that B&B issue, didn't realize its significance, I better be careful with it 😉 The cover is badly drawn, as you can see that the perspective is way off. Plastic man is supposed to be on top of a skyscraper but his head appears the same size as the other two. And he looks like he's melting down the side of the building but that never happens in the comic. Why is he all tentacled like John Carpenter's the Thing? And that weird blob over Batman, not sure we want to know what that is haha. Also funny how the villain's outfit is very similar to Hobgoblin of the 80's.
One thing not mentioned was Plas' very brief appearance on Superfriends. I think a small animal was stuck in a wall or something, and he had to snake his arm through to grab it. It was pretty lame, he could have done something more heroic, but I guess par for the course of that very tame show.
Great job 😁💳
Thank you very much
Can you imagine being the editor of Police Comics no. 1? "Hmmmm.... we have a Plastic Man strip . . . but you know, I think I'll give the cover to this pink shirt wearing non superpowered sexually ambiguous dude named Firebrand? There's a mystery man that will go far! I mean, what's gonna happen? His sister becomes more famous?
Phil Foglio did plastic-man? whoa before the hugo awards? thx did not know that.
I am nothing if not an educator of the masses.
And I'm pretty darn humble too haha
@@HaussmannComics-xd3gn an educator you are indeed and a thorough researcher.💥
Plz talk more about JLI
Perhaps in the future
How about the many First issues of the Justice League?
I'm currently writing something for the Justice League.....among many other things
Here's a way-out idea Plastic Man in the 32 century being immortal survived to that century and has been hidden from events in that century till his first return after being discovered in a tube of plastic by the Legion and awoken. His powers are slightly lower than they once were due to being in that tube, the mystery of how he was there will reveal and certainly change his life and origins despite this history past has been erased during a crisis of identity movements and dark metal events. But his timelines aren't certain. The Saga Of Plastic Man and his past are blurred from the multiverse because of a future story plastic multiverse. The first Man Of Plastic: Man and Plastic. 32 Century a tale with a darker edge of humour and identity crisis and salvation and origins to his powers where the chemicals came from and who was the scientist behind them? And shadows from Plastic Man's memories of childhood and his true self. And a consequence of powers?
Not gonna lie, I'm pretty in love with this concept. Well done
My first experience with plastic man was the series called Plastic Man and son
With Baby Plas?
@@HaussmannComics-xd3gn yes that was the show
Son of a gun could dance though.
Probably Limbo too
James Woods
In the right time I think James Woods could have a great Plastic Man
But can he dance?
Boy can he
Why your face?
Why not my face?
@@HaussmannComics-xd3gn more room for content. More pix of plastic man. Sometimes it's disturbing when you look into the eyes of someone who isn't really there. Thanx for asking