Links to the best of Plastic Man-centric comics, in my personal opinion. Extra-favorites are marked in bold.
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Golden Age
- Eel O'Brien stuff:
- Police Comics #1-3 (Plastic Man's stories start on page 32)
- Police Comics #4-5 (Madam Brawn! Plastic Man's stories start on page 32)
- Police Comics #6-8 (Plastic Man's stories start on page 32)
- Police Comics #11-12
- Police Comics #13-14 (Woozy Winks!)
- Police Comics #18-20
- Police Comics #26
- Other notable classic issues:
- Police Comics #22
- Police Comics #27
- Police Comics #30-31
- Police Comics #34
- Police Comics #40-42
- Police Comics #47-49
- Police Comics #51 (Granite Lady is the most frequently-adapted of Cole's villains by far)
- Police Comics #57
- Police Comics #61
- Police Comics #66
- Police Comics #68
- Police Comics #70
- Police Comics #76-100
- The quarterly magazine Plastic Man (1943) also existed.
- Issues 1-32 correspond with the Police Comics run, a mixed bag of original stories.
- Issue #33 switches tone to being a horror comic.
- Issue #44 onwards are all reprints.
Silver/Bronze Age
- Plastic Man vol 2 (1976) #11-16 (Numbering continued from the '66 spinoff that I don't like much.)
- Plastic Man vol 2 (1976) #17-20 (writer changes)
- Plastic Man (1988) #1-4 A slightly more "adult" reboot of the original concept. Very 80s comedy-noir; lots of fun.
Modern
- (Note: There are sort of three incompatible branches here, each one of which gives him a kid at some point. Pick any or all.)
Main DC continuity
- Heavily involved with many large DC events. Cosmic threats, team world-saving. In which O'Brien tries to reconnect with Luke, his equally flexible biological kid.
- The Terrifics (2018) #1-30 (a sort of Fantastic Four sendoff series)
- The Kingdom: Offspring (set in AU "The Kingdom", where the world is about to end)
- Gods Among Us: Year 4 Annual #1 (set in AU "Injustice", where Superman has become a dictator. Father-son prison break!)
- Optional continuation in Injustice 2 #16-24, wraps up in #27 (Set in "Injustice" again. Father and son help out fighting ecofascists.)
Kyle Baker continuity
- Delightfully off-the-walls indie writing. A parody version of the DC/JLA universe that sticks closer to Jack Cole's continuity. In which Plas adopts Edwina, a goth girl.
- Plastic Man On the Lam (on Archive.org)
- (The above was also published as Plastic Man (2004) #1-6)
- Plastic Man (2004) #7-20
2018 miniseries
- More modern crime-noir flavored reboot. Very loosely tied to everything else. In which Eel accidentally becomes ward of a street kid that calls themself Pado Swakatoon.
- Forms Stretched To Their Limits (an essay by Art Speigalman)
- Malleable Madness: Plastic Man from Jack Cole to Kyle Baker (a review by Tom Shapira)
- PlastiCast podcast
- Cole's Comics (a blog discussing all of Jack Cole's work)