Real name: Patrick "Eel" O'Brian
First Appearance: Police Comics #1 (1941, Quality Comics)
Creator: Jack Cole (Writer/Artist)
First Appearance: Police Comics #1 (1941, Quality Comics)
Creator: Jack Cole (Writer/Artist)
Occupation: Former Crook/Safe cracker
Religion: Christian (d.u.)
Religion: Christian (d.u.)
Operates in: Capital City
When Patrick "Eel" O'Brian was 10, he was orphaned and forced to live on the streets. He eventually fell in with career criminals in order to survive, and became part of a burglary ring specializing in safe cracking. During one late-night heist at a chemical plant, he and his gang members were surprised by a night watchman. During the ensuing escape, Eel was shot in the shoulder, accidentally doused with an unidentified chemical liquid, and left behind by the rest of the gang who had driven off without him. Fleeing on foot and suffering rapidly increasing disorientation due to the gunshot wound and chemical exposure, eel eventually passed out in the foothills just outside the city. When he awoke he found himself in bed in a mountain monestary, being tended to by the monk who had discovered him unconscious in the forest. The monk had sense the capacity for great good in O'Brian, and when the police who had followed O'Brian's trail to the area came to the monastery to inquire about O'Brian, the monk turned them away. O'Brian was deeply moved by this act of faith and kindness, and further fueled O'Brian's long dissatisfaction with the criminal life and ignites his desire to reform. As O'Brian recovers at the monastery he discovers that his body has become like super-malleable rubber, allowing him to stretch, bounce, and mold himself as he desires, and so he uses his new found powers to fight for law and order. Using a rubber suit, goggles and remolding his face to conceal his identity, he maintained his criminal connections as a means of gathering information on criminal activities. As time went on, Plastic Man was inducted into the Capital City Police Force, and then later the FBI, and eventually abandoned his Eel O'Brian identity.
Plastic Man was originally owned and published by Quality Comics, but Quality Comics was shut down in 1956 and its properties, including Plastic Man, were acquired by DC Comics. After the DC crossover event Crisis on Infinite Earths, which reboot the DC universe, a new origin for Plastic Man was written, one were after O'Brian was abandoned by his gang after the heist gone wrong, he wandered the street as his new powers developed, Eel oblivious to the changes, frightening civilians and bringing the police and National Guard in to deal with the "monster". When he realizes what is going on, he uses his powers to escape his pursuers but becomes depressed over his new condition that he attempts suicide by jumping off a bridge, but is interrupted by Woozy Winks, who helps Eel realize he could capitalize on his new powers to make them rich, and unable to decide if crime or crime-fighting would be more profitable, they flip a coin and end up fighting crime, so they set up a detective agency in New York City.
Plastic Man was originally owned and published by Quality Comics, but Quality Comics was shut down in 1956 and its properties, including Plastic Man, were acquired by DC Comics. After the DC crossover event Crisis on Infinite Earths, which reboot the DC universe, a new origin for Plastic Man was written, one were after O'Brian was abandoned by his gang after the heist gone wrong, he wandered the street as his new powers developed, Eel oblivious to the changes, frightening civilians and bringing the police and National Guard in to deal with the "monster". When he realizes what is going on, he uses his powers to escape his pursuers but becomes depressed over his new condition that he attempts suicide by jumping off a bridge, but is interrupted by Woozy Winks, who helps Eel realize he could capitalize on his new powers to make them rich, and unable to decide if crime or crime-fighting would be more profitable, they flip a coin and end up fighting crime, so they set up a detective agency in New York City.
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