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Neil - Plastic Man Talk @plasticmantalk.bsky.social · Nov 25

Plastic Man Daily Panels!

In this thread I will be sharing 4 panels from a Plastic Man story every day until I can’t any more! From the Golden Age to now, it’ll be bits of Plas throughout history!

Close up of Plastic Man from the cover of Police Comics 1. Not sure who the artist was.

Plastic Man as a slingshot from Adventure Comics 471. Art by Joe Staton, inks by Bob Smith, colors by Glynis Oliver

Plastic Man & Metamorpho fused as a giant robot piloted by Mr. Terrific, from Terrifics 30, Art by Sergio Davila, inks by Vicente Cifuentes, colors by Protobunker

Wonder Woman, Zatanna, Black Canary, and Plastic Man from Black Canary & Zatanna: Bloodspell. Art by Joe Quinones, colors by Dave McCaig

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Neil - Plastic Man Talk @plasticmantalk.bsky.social · 1h

Uh um I was never good at theseCLEFAIRY

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Jesus Christ

Neil - Plastic Man Talk @plasticmantalk.bsky.social · 12h

That was a weird comic. Also it’s weird that that was Terrifics Plas, but he was still wearing his regular costume.

Neil - Plastic Man Talk @plasticmantalk.bsky.social · 12h

Hmmm, it’d be easy to say Terrifics, and I really do want them together again as a foursome, but that might be cheating. You know what? I wanna see what that Legends Of Tomorrow team he was on is doing. Are we gonna see them again?

Is there a team excluding the League and the Freedom Fighters you’d like to see Plas on?

Neil - Plastic Man Talk @plasticmantalk.bsky.social · 12h

JLA (1997) 17

Art by Arnie Jorgensen

Nothing much ever came from Steel and Plastic Man’s supposed friendship, which is introduced here. I’d have liked to have seen more of that.

Steel, who’s armor is being controlled to toss his hammer through the Watchtower’s hull, is stopped by Plastic Man, who catches the hammer with his body.

Prometheus gets whipped in the nuts by Catwoman.

After all is said and done, Zauriel and Steel talk to one another about just what happened, and what their future’s like. Steel says that after today, he’s “Plastic Man’s best friend.”

A new JLA lineup is fully formed, made up of Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman (Hippolyta, for the moment), Aquaman, Green Lantern (Kyle Rayner), The Flash (Wally West), Martian Manhunter, Huntress, Steel, Zauriel, Orion, Big Barda, Oracle, Plastic Man, and friend of the group Catwoman.

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Darci Meadows, Published Author @saintwalker98.bsky.social · 13h

🟠Violet & me wrote this one, taking a look at the many abandoned plot threads, dropped reveals, and weird dangling hooks of Geoff Johns pre-New 52 Green Lantern saga morenopressblog.wordpress.com/tales-of-the...

Tales of the Green Lantern

By Ember Blake and Violet Morningstar When I was reading Green Lantern as a kid it was the biggest comic in the world. Nowadays that feels ridiculous to me, that there was a time when Green Lantern…

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Neil - Plastic Man Talk @plasticmantalk.bsky.social · 16h

Telepathic comic book character who reads the thought bubbles and the narration captions

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You seem to forget that every golfer is pure evil and likes to be as evil and dumb as possible

Neil - Plastic Man Talk @plasticmantalk.bsky.social · 1d

Now that’d be a fight I’d pay to see!

Neil - Plastic Man Talk @plasticmantalk.bsky.social · 1d

If Elongated Man was allowed to just join, why not Plas?

Neil - Plastic Man Talk @plasticmantalk.bsky.social · 1d

Totally! I’m not a fan of Batman being involved in Plastic Man’s origin, or Plas relying on Batman to help him do things, but I love (at least the idea of) Plas on the JLA.
I don’t think he needs to have Batman vouch for him to join the League. I think them just recognizing his talents is enough

I know you're anti-Plas from Batman but would you still want him on the JLA? if so what alternate origin story to his joining would you prefer?

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Neil - Plastic Man Talk @plasticmantalk.bsky.social · 1d

Yellow 🤓

Honestly, probably green or black? Yeah, I’d say green would be a good look on him.

Do you think Plas would look good in any color other then red?

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Neil - Plastic Man Talk @plasticmantalk.bsky.social · 1d

For a good chunk of Plas’ time, he was a perfectly intelligent hero, an FBI agent who often solved murders. He only became a dummy goofball around the time of JLA. That being said, he did get to show some intelligence in JLA’s WW3 arc, planning around Queen Bee’s blindness to red color.

Since most of the time plas is depicted as goofy and a jokester, his intelligence tends to get overlooked. Was there any moment in the comics he was shown to be smarter than he looked?

Plas explains (in a rather rude and crummy manner, he’s such a dick in these stories) that he used to hang with the Red Bee, and there learned a lot about bee-keeping and their behaviors.

Neil - Plastic Man Talk @plasticmantalk.bsky.social · 1d

Now that we’re in the JLA era, let’s do some questions on NGL!

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They really XBoned themselves huh

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Sweeeeeet!

Neil - Plastic Man Talk @plasticmantalk.bsky.social · 1d

In fact, he did :) (Adventure Comics 471)

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JLA (1997) 16

Art by Howard Porter

Television reporter Amanda Trellace announces how after the JLA announced its disbanded, they reconsidered and now are looking for new members. Trellace is wearing a distinct outfit, a yellow and black-striped blouse with a red jacket.
It’s very Plastic Man, and I like to jokingly headcanon that Plas actually sold a trademark on his design, explaining why so many clothes and unrelated products look like him.

Electric Blue Superman looks to a crowd of reporters, in a smile and pose that looks really weird, like a late 90’s CGI mocap scene in a pre-rendered cutscene in a video game

Meet the new lineup for the JLA, (clockwise starting from the top): Zauriel the angel, Green Lantern Kyle Rayner, the Hunteess, Superman, Steel, Aquaman, the Flash, Wonder Woman Hippolyta, and Plastic Man.

The villain Prometheus, who broke into the JLA’s new watchtower, explains loudly to Huntress how he’s using hypnotic flashing lights to stop her from attacking him.

I don’t like Prometheus. Hate him, actually. A stupid “Gary Sue” type villain that always is one step because there’s nothing interesting about him.

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Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social · 2d

So that was Saturday October 11th 2025. Crikey. Another day done, another (more or less) here. So it goes.

(Out this very month in 1948, just 77 years ago, Plastic Man #10, with its delightful cover by the genius that was Jack Cole.)

And so to bed. Sleep well, gentle sentients of Planet Earth.

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Neil - Plastic Man Talk @plasticmantalk.bsky.social · 2d

I remember this!

Neil - Plastic Man Talk @plasticmantalk.bsky.social · 2d

Also, man, I really wish Grant Morrison had read Golden Age Plas. I think they could’ve done okay with that version. At the least, they’d remember Plas hatred of magic and done something fun with it here.

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Neil - Plastic Man Talk @plasticmantalk.bsky.social · 2d

Also I know I’ll get to it later but Circe really saw this one dude who had an open crush on her and challenged her magic and decided “he needs to go to the torment nexus”

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Neil - Plastic Man Talk @plasticmantalk.bsky.social · 2d

I’m so tired that I almost fell asleep writing this more than 5 times, and maybe twice or more for the alt texts. It’s funny

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JLA (1997) 15

Art by Howard Porter

I suppose this is the start of the “horny Plas chases after women” era too. Bleh. At least his reasons for why he finds Circe so attractive and captivating are actually interesting and not just “lol isn’t it funny that he’s horny?”
They also spell his name wrong.

Plastic Man, disguised as The Joker, attempts to awaken Jemm, Son Of Saturn, from Lex Luthor’s mind control.

Plas reveals himself ina very liquid and goopy fashion. This era of Plas was pretty different not just in personality, but also in visual interpretation. He’s now more visibly goopy as he shapeshifts, as well as shiny.

Plastic Man has fallen head over heels for Circe. And, frankly, who wouldn’t?

Why Plas likes the witch so much: she can control his physical form in the same fashion he can, which no one else has really done before.

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Neil - Plastic Man Talk @plasticmantalk.bsky.social · 2d

Nice!