History: 

(Plastic Man (Quality) #1) - Plas busted up the Chance Club, a gambling den where the games all involved animals being killed or fighting to the death. Woozy found the body of James Towne in the basement and panicked, distracting Plas and allowing the Chance Club operators to escape. Plas met Towne s fiancée Yvette la Rue and learned the Chance Club was connected to a sect of blood worshippers, and that she convinced James to quit the cult, resulting in his death. Woozy found the cultists hq and knocked out their leader the Mystic One and put on her robes. Plas came to bust up the cultists, but thgey fled, so Woozy directed them to an address which was near the F.B.I. hq, ensuing they d be caught.

(Plastic Man (Quality) #1) - Woozy and Plas presented a camouflaging device created by Professor Topps to the military. The general was interested, and when they went to Topps  lab to get the plans they found Japanese spies had abducted him. The spies managed to drug Plas, steal the plans an bring both to Tokyo. Plas later escaped and returned the plans to America.

(Plastic Man (Quality) #1) - Plas investigated a series of kidnappings and almost caught the kidnapper, but Woozy jumped him the same time as Plas and they collided. Plas found that Professor Gooman tricked his slow friend the Goon into kidnapping people to operate a super boring machine that caused a volcanic eruption in the heart of the city. Woozy made a radio broadcast that warned the populace and allowed them to evacuate, and the Goon killed Goodman when he realized he was evil.

(Plastic Man (Quality) #1) - Woozy bought a fake treasure map from Cowboy Joe an went to Tecos County to try to claim his fortune. Dade framed Woozy and his enemies the McAnders family for the murder of rancher Blanchard to hide his own guilt. Woozy was going to be lynched before Plas found him and rescued him. Woozy learned his map was a fake and tried to sell it to a sucker, but Plas made him behave.

(Plastic Man (Quality) #2) - Plas and Woozy investigated the disappearance of the Slade brothers, all hardened criminals. They came across Slimy Slade, who was dressed in gay nineties fashion and confessed his brothers were hiding in Nio Place before his brother Slippery shot him. Plas learned from the chief of the F.B.I. that No Place was a hidden city that cut itself off from the rest of America during the 1890s . Plas apprehended Slinky Slade, disguised himself as him, and went to No Place with Slippery. He confronted Slippery, who was about to name his inside man in No Place when his partner shot him and fled. Plas and Woozy were taken in by the police for being outsiders, and Plas deduced that the mayor was the Slade s man. He got the mayor to confess that he was going to set up No Place as a haven for criminals and sell the valuables at No Place as antiques. The citizens were grateful to Woozy and Plas for being saved from their mayor and agreed to rejoin America.

(Plastic Man (Quality) #2) - Plas and Woozy pursued gangster Tony Toppo when Elmer Body switched minds with Woozy and then with Plastic Man, because he thought being a crimefighter would be exciting. He lacked Plas  control over his powers and was nearly killed by Toppo and his gang before Plas, in Woozy s body convinced him to switch minds again. Plas defeated Toppo and got Elmer to return to his own body after suggesting he go find the President.

(Plastic Man (Quality) #2) - Woozy read a newspaper article about the villain Lava Man heading towards Capitol City. He spotted Lava Man and went to get Plas. Plas was already engaged in fighting Lava Man, and by the time Woozy found him the battle was over with Plas victorious. Woozy bawled that he missed a chance at glory.

(Plastic Man (Quality) #2) - Plas and Woozy went to Coroner s Corners where every citizen had become a murdering loon bent on killing outsiders. They knew there was one sane person they could contact but didn't know their identity. They split up and Plas was fooled by Dr. Dewey Ditt, who appeared sane, but was actually a mad hypnotist responsible for driving the town crazy. His niece, Dada was the sane one, and after giving Woozy an antidote she saved him from a murderous Plas by squirting Plas in the mouth with the antidote. Plas came to his senses and thrashed Dr. Ditt while Dada and Woozy flirted with each other.

(Plastic Man (Quality) #7) - Plas and Woozy foiled a bank robbery by Little Moron and his gang, but Moron was struck dead by lightning by Dr. Volt who also had his eye on the bank. Volt escaped, and Plas warned Woozy that Volt was extremely dangerous, and asked him to sit the case out. Woozy didn't listen because he wanted to prove his bravery and did some detective work to locate Volt s hideout. Volt set a deathtrap for the heroes, but ended up destroying his own lab. He fled into the stormy night and was killed by a bolt of lightning.

(Plastic Man (Quality) #7) - Woozy was among a group of people shanghaied by Gilda, Bowlegs and Whiskers to help them recover gold bars from a sunken government ship. Plas turned himself into a kite to follow the ship, helped Woozy recover the gold so it could be returned to the government, and beat the crooks. The shanghaied workers made the crooks do they heavy work to get them back to shore.

(Plastic Man (Quality) #7) - The F.B.I. Chief told Woozy he didn't have the mind for solving crimes, so he enrolled in Prof. Rudge s Mind Training Course. Rudge was a crook, and gave Woozy an assignment to observe the Digley Mansion, when he really wanted Woozy s information to case the joint, which recently received a shipment of Yukon gold. Woozy heard security guards Shirley and Evelyn protecting the gold, but assumed they were two females throwing a party. Rudge tried to ro the mansion, but was chased off by Shirl and Evelyn, and Woozy inadvertently led them to Rudge';s school so they could be arrested. Digley was grateful and told the Chief Woozy was better than any F.B.I. agent.

(Plastic Man (Quality) #7) - Plas and Woozy had a fight after Plas asked his pal to look for a real job, and Woozy put Gink s all you can eat diner out of business by being a glutton. Plas save a sign painter, who d fallen from a billboard after an encounter with a masked man. The billboard advertised Mr. Yall's Hava Cola, and his competitor Mr. Holler of Coola Cola was the prime suspect. Woozy was hired as the new sign-painter, and the masked man failed to shoot Woozy because Ginks was the other sign painter, and he chased Woozy around the rooftop. Plas caught the masked man, who turned out to e Mr. Meek, the junior associate of the sign company, who wanted the business for himself. Woozy proved himself to Plas by making friends with Ginks and starting up the Winks & Ginks Restaurant.

(Plastic Man (Quality) #9) - Holdup artist Rocky Twitch complained to Woozy and Plas that when he tried mugging Clarence Skidd the King of Zing, Skidd ended up taking his money. Plas brought Twitch into custody and met Skidd, the inventor of the world  slipperiest oil, who said he enjoyed taking Twitch s money so much that he was turning to a life of crime. He dared Woozy and Plas to top him from robbing the 13th National Bank. Plas stopped him after finding that a soapless detergent counteracted his slippery oil.

(Plastic Man (Quality) #9) - Woozy and Plas set up a trap for Phoney Fink, the notorious counterfeiter who was selling counterfeit stamps to Mr. Atlas. Plas learned that Atlas knew the stamps were phony, he wanted counterfeit to compare to the genuine article. Plas couldn't arrest Fink, but ruined Fink s business when he posted a notice that Fink's phonies were counterfeits of genuine counterfeits and not worth the price he was charging. Fink decided to go back into business selling genuine counterfeits he would pass off as the real deal, but Woozy and Plas broke into his hq. Fink had his goons run Plas through a printing press, and destroyed the evidence. Plas was still able to convict him because when he was run through the press Fink's signature counterfeits were printed on his body.

(Plastic Man (Quality) #9) - Woozy met the Dratfields, country bumpkins who d made a fortune in oil and were intent on spending their money in the city. He schmoozed with them until they considered sharing their money with them, but their blood enemies the McNoy attacked them in a restaurant. Woozy got them to stop fighting by helping Lou Dratfield fall for Fatback McNoy. The families made peace, but still wanted someone to keep feuding with, so they started shooting at Woozy.

(Plastic Man (Quality) #9) - Plas and Woozy investigated the Acme paint company run by Mr. Heintz, and found they were killing people by infusing radioactive material into the paint they used on houses. Plas rounded up the crooks.

(Plastic Man (Quality) #9) - Plas and Woozy tried to figure out why millionaire J.K. Dartmoor mysteriously took ill. They wondered in someone caused his illness, and ran down false leads including his ex-butler Paramus and his daughter s suitor Diggory before finding Cauldron, the real culprit. He was using a voodoo doll to slowly kill Dartmoor, and when he tried to flee on a broomstick, Plas burned his spellbook, removing Cauldron s powers and causing him to fall to his death.

(Plastic Man (Quality) #10) - Plas sent Woozy on vacation to the Bar-K Dude Ranch to kee him from interfering in F.B.I. case. On a horseback ride in the desert with his fellow ranchers Shiek Ali Krim, who was looking to steal an experimental uberonic rocket being contracted in the desert, captured Woozy. Fortunately Plas came to the rescue and captured Krim.

(Plastic Man (Quality) #10) - Plas and Woozy went to Luxury Springs when they got word the Nitro Noonan gang was staying there. The gang really was on a law-abiding vacation, and Plas and Woozy got tossed from the resort by the house detective for being a nuisance. They stayed in a barn, where he met a woman who needed a jockey for the Luxury Springs Stakes, and Plas agreed to ride her horse Nosebag. Plas won using his stretching power, and the takes cleaned up because everyone bet on Black Beauty. The Noonan gang ended their vacation to rob the takes, but had to fight the Pistol Packer mob, which came from the city with the same intention. Plas interrupted their scuffle and apprehended the lot of them.

(Plastic Man (Quality) #10) - To kill time Woozy took in the White Swan, an opera, but became enamored with its star Petrovka. He made a commotion when the actor Sandor feigned an attack on her and was ejected. He able to sneak backstage, owing to Petrovka's trainer Kurveskaya mistaking him for an old mentor. Petrovka wanted him to leave, and when he overheard Sandor and Kurvekaya talking about eating a swan he imagined a conspiracy against his love Petrovka. Woozy found out that after an opening of the opera the cast enjoyed a roasted swan, and that his suspicions were groundless.

(Platic Man (Quality) #10) - Plas took Woozy on a hunting trip on Mackinac Island on Lake Superior, but Woozy was frightened of ghost and generally unhelpful. Pla left Woozy at camp and chased a mooe. The moose ran into a bear at camp, and Plas bagged them both. He gave Woozy credit for keeping the bear from swimming away, because Woozy was already in the water kicking up a commotion at the sight of the bear.

(Plastic Man (Quality) #10) - Plas and Woozy cornered racketeer and inventor Wheel at a machine expo, but before they could bring him to justice he was killed by his companion Electra. They pursued Electra to Wheel s shop, where she voiced her plan to destroy humanity, before destroying the shop to evade them. During their next encounter Electra revealed herself to be a robot and destroyed herself.

(Plastic Man (Quality) #12) - Plas and Woozy captured members of Spadehead's gang, frustrating the criminal. He challenged Plas to meet him during a bank robbery, and when they fought Spadehead tricked Plas into drinking an anti-rubber serum developed by Doc Vineyard. Plas had to recover at home, having lost his elasticity. Woozy scoured the underworld until he found Vineyard, who d long ago ceased to care about anything but booze after a patient died. Woozy told him the patient George Pappas had a heart attack before he operated, so Vineyard could return to real medicine instead of being an underworld quack. Vineyard gave Plas the antidote, and Plas easily captured Spadehead.

(Plastic Man (Quality) #12) - Plas and Woozy offered to help Lorraine Miller, who ran the South River Tunnel Project. Work had stopped because workers kept getting murdered, so Woozy went undersea to draw out the culprit. He was anxious to volunteer because he d fallen for Miller. The monstrous Riverman didn't want humans in his domain and tried to kill Woozy, and although Plas saved him he failed to catch Riverman. Riverman went on land, disguised himself as a worker, and tried to dynamite the tunnel, but was apprehended. As he told Plas his history he died because he d been out of water too long. Miller thanked them and mentioned her husband, breaking Woozy s heart and making him swear off women once again.

(Plastic Man (Quality) #12) - Dr. Screwball heard Woozy bemoaning the fact that people called him backwards, so he took him to his lab and gave him a shot of backward brew which he insisted would cure him. Woozy said the opposite of what he thought, and did the opposite of what he wanted to, leaving him steamed. He bungled Bush and Gate s robbery of a jewelry store and din t want to accompany them to their hideout so he did. They told him to go back to the jewelers and steal the Mope Diamond, and again he was forced to because he didn't want to. He stole the Mope, but crashed into the crooks, who were watching over him, leaving them easy prey for the police. Woozy wasn't charged because the officers thought he d come up with a brilliant scheme to catch Bush and Gate. The brew wore off and Woozy punched Screwball in the face.

(Plastic Man (Quality) #12) - The Forest Service borrowed Plas and Woozy from the F.B.I. after a bad year of forest fires in the Los Padres National Forest. They were there to make sure people weren't starting fires, and it didn't take long before he caught the Runyam family, who nearly burned themselves to death with their own campfire. Plas gave them a good talking to, reminding them that fire signs prohibiting campfires were there for their safety.

(Plastic Man (Quality) #12) - Gangs were massacring each other and bookies and horse trainers were being threatened because someone was fixing races, but noone knew who it was. Plas went to the races with Woozy, who lost his shirt on bets, and met Horseface, who could communicate with horses and hypnotize them. Plas ended his winning streak by disguising himself as a horse that Horseface couldn't control. Horseface flipped out at the idea of losing his bet, so he shot at Plas the horse. Plas had a first-hand account of hypnosis that he used on horses, which was enough to charge Horseface with fixing races.

(Plastic Man (Quality) #13) - Plas and Woozy were tipped of by one of Mr. Hazard s henchmen that the villain was going to rob the steeplechase horse race. Hazard bet his flunkies he could do it, so the stoolie called Plas to win the bet. Hazard failed to rob the race thanks to Plas, and when he found out he d been ratted on he killed the stoolie and made a new bet, that he could execute Plastic Man. He captured Woozy Winks to use as bait and caught Plas in a glue trap and threw darts tipped with chemicals that dissolved rubber at the hero. Plas escaped thanks to Woozy, who d been brushing up on his criminal skills of untying ropes and picking pockets, and Hazard was sentenced to 199 years in jail.

(Plastic Man (Quality) #13) - Jets watched out for criminals carrying out robberies, distracted the police with his flying so the crooks wouldn't get caught, then robbed the crooks themselves. Jets stole from the robbers of the Dreamditch art auction when Plastic Man caught up to him. Jets flew off with Woozy as a hostage, but Woozy fell, was caught by Plas, who turned into a trampoline, and sailed through the air, knocking out Jets. Jets fell into a body of water, and his water-clogged flying boots were useless, making him easy prey for Plas.

(Plastic Man (Quality) #13) - Alice wouldn't go out with Woozy because he wasn't an artist, so Woozy enrolled in art school. The school was actually a criminal organization that stole paintings, and temporarily covered over them with a new painting that could later be removed using turpentine, but they let Woozy in because he offered them the $5,000 inheritance he got from his late aunt to enroll. Woozy was proud of his art, and invited his cop friend Casey to see it. Casey was wise to the crook s scheme, so he and Woozy shut them down. Casey s brother was an art critic and actually liked Woozy s work, earning Woozy a date with Alice.

(Plastic Man (Quality) #13) - A dope ring had the F.B.I. confounded, so Plas had Woozy pick the pockets of suspects. This plan didn't pan out, but Plas found that the dealers were tying dope to carrier pigeons, and busted up the ring.

(Plastic Man (Quality) #13) - On a drive through the country Plas and Woozy picked up the gorgeous and persuasive Artifice, who was on the run from the Seventy-Seventh Street gang.  While Plas dealt with the gang she took Woozy to her country hideout and forced him at gunpoint to serve her. She called up Grizzles and promised him information on her other gang, the Eighty-Eight Street Gang, if he made her part of his team. Plas intercepted Grizzles and disguised himself as the crook. He got a confession from Artifice about her gang dealings, but she fled to the hills and rolled a boulder over Plas. Plas survived, Artifice fainted and was taken to prison.

(Plastic Man (Quality) #14) - Woozy couldn't figure out a basic crossword puzzle question, and although Plas knew the answer was  words  he wanted Woozy to figure out the answer for himself and get a better education so he took him to a museum exhibit of dictionaries. They met the crook Words and his gang, who escaped with a Samuel Johnson dictionary. They met Words again at a screening of  Dark Adventure,  Central Studios first talkie, and Words got away with the original film reel. Words tried to unlock the vault of the late socialite Mr. Grenville, which was voice activated. He got frustrated because the phrase  Veni, Vidi, Vici  failed to unlock it, giving Plas time to capture Words and explain that the vault only responded to Grenville s voice or a recording thereof. Plas felt sorry for Woozy, and helped him finish his crossword.

(Plastic Man (Quality) #14) - Plas and Woozy were at the opening of an interstate bridge when it collapsed because mobster Cargill, who d been contracted to provide the concrete, gave the workers an inferior product. They went to arrest Cargill, but he escaped thanks to his underling Doc. Doc gave Cargill the invulnerability and strength of concrete, making him into Concrete Cargill, and he showed up at the F.B.I. office to give Plas a beating. Plas disguised himself as F.B.I. secretary Miss Duff, whom Concrete showed an interest in, and showed up at his hq. As Duff he got close enough to Concrete to replace the premium concrete in the solution he used to retain his superpowers with the inferior grade the mobster gave the state. The weakened Concrete was easy pickings for Plas.

(Plastic Man (Quality) #14) - Scientist James Carver unvented an atomic tonic and after seeing Woozy lose at marbles to kids, he knew he d be the perfect dope to test it. He promised to buy Woozy marbles if he took a dose, but Woozy downed the whole bottle in hopes of getting a whole lot of marbles. This made Woozy highly radioactive and readyto explode, so Carver called the police. Woozy fled, fearing the police because of his checkered past. The police pursued him, but used kid gloves because if he got jostled he d explode. Eventually Woozy calmed down enough to take the antidote.

(Plastic Man (Quality) #14) - The F.B.I. sent Plas to the country to locate a counterfeiting ring, and Plas took Woozy so he could rest and enjoy nature. They heard stories of a haunted house, and found crooks dressed as ghosts to scare the curious away. Plas took care of them, and promised Woozy a real vacation.

(Plastic Man (Quality) #14) - Bloodhound Bud Bickram, a correspondent school detective, foisted himself on Plas and Woozy. To distract him Plas sent him to the hideout of the Humdrum Heisters, whom Plas knew left town. Unfortunately they arrived back in town just in time to meet Bickram, and take him hostage when he mentioned Plas  name. Plas pursued the gang to an alternate hideout, and then the sewer system, finally saving Bickram and capturing them. Bickram was an egotist and thought he helped Plas, although he was never anything but a hindrance. He wanted to replace Woozy as Plas  partner, and Woozy had to restrain himself from beating the young detective. Plas worried about how he was ever going to get rid f Bickram, when Bickram s father showed up to take him back home to Cow Crossing.

(Plastic Man (Quality) #16) - Plas and Woozy spent a day in the park and saved Nixie Nolan from committing suicide by drowning herself. Her fiancé Jeff Jollup dumped her to marry Gazelle Van Gander, who won him in a poker game. Plas visited Gazelle who told him her uncle Goops left his fortune to her and his butler Swiggins, but stipulated that they had to be married before collecting. Gazelle's fiancé was murdered, as was Swiggins , so people were hesitant to marry them, making her desperate enough to win Jollup in a card game. Plas disguised himself as Jollup and evaded an assassination attempt. Swiggins was the murderer, and wanted to force Gazelle to marry him so he d inherit the full Goops fortune. Plas exposed Swiggins, freeing Gazelle to marry a number of suitors and Jollup to marry Nolan.

(Plastic Man (Quality) #16) - Plas and Woozy tried to apprehend racketeer Wriggles Wright, but he shook Plas by hijacking a car. Plas had to make a speech for the Daughters of Chivalry, and saw Wriggles disguised as one of the spinster Daughters. He tried to apprehend him, but the Daughters thought Wriggles was one of their own and fought off Plas. Plas pursued Wriggles, but was confronted by Boy Scouts, who thought he was harassing an old woman. Plas saw that Wriggles was trying to destroy his reputation, so he faked a fight with the Chief, and suicide by jumping off a bridge. Woozy was in hysterics because Plas didn't tell him his plan. Plas posed as Wriggles disguised as the old woman Plas assaulted, and got a fund raiser going at the Daughters of Chivalry for his injuries. Wriggles didn't like the idea of someone one-upping him, so dressed as the old woman he confronted Plas, who exposed his schemes.

(Plastic Man (Quality) #16) - Woozy s stomach was grumbling so he visited an art museum, gorged himself in the cafeteria, and told the server he thought the  free exhibit  signs also referred to the cafeteria. The server tried to make him pay, so Woozy bit him and fled to the Egyptian Tut-Da-Mut exhibit, disguised himself in royal raiment and hid in a sarcophagus. Crooks Mopey and Mabel knew professor Snoog, who found the Tut-Da-Mut tomb, hoped to find a fortune there but failed, so they hit the exhibit in hopes of finding what Snoog missed. They found Woozy, and thought he was a mummy. They were unable to cope, although Woozy developed a crush on Mabel. Snoops realized what he was looking for, a recipe for Ragout Egyptienne, was on the back of Woozy s robes.

(Plastic Man (Quality) #16) - Plas and Woozy raided Wally the Weasel s hq, and Plas was knocked out. Wally, an India-rubber man with limited stretching abilities, packed Plas in a box and disguised himself as the hero. Telling Woozy he had a plan, he fought with the Chief and helped his gang pull off a bank robbery. Plas escaped his trap, and led the F.B.I. to the circus, where Wally was performing, exposing his façade and arrested him.

(Plastic Man (Quality) #16) - Ali Babass, the prince of Dagbad entered America as a diplomat, but the FBI wanted Plas and Woozy to keep a watch on him because he d committed all sorts of crime overseas. Plas learned of several bank robberies with the suspect fitting Babass  description, but he had an airtight alibi. Plas uncovered his secret; he was a quintuplet and hid the existence of his siblings so they could commit crimes. Plas captured them, but couldn't arrest them because Babass threatened Dagbad would declare war on America. Dagbad had a revolution and a new democratic government, allowing Plas to take Babass and his siblings into custody.

(Plastic Man (Quality) #17) - Plas rounded up the vicious killer Rattler s gang, but Rattler and his girlfriend Tina escaped when Uno brought them aboard his time machine. Uno was from the year four million A.D. and was looking for people to recolonize the future after a massive plague devastated mankind. Uno also took Woozy aboard his ship, and Woozy agreed to go to the future because the female colonists Uno picked were very attractive. Plas pursued them, but Rattler convinced Uno that Plas was evil and they tussled. Rattler tried to kill Uno, and used Uno s disintegrator ray to turn Plas into a puddle, revealing his true colors. Uno reversed the beam to restore Plas, and the restored Plas captured Rattler. Tina left Rattler to go to the future with Uno, but Woozy decided to stay in the present with Plas.

(Plastic Man (Quality) #17) - A woman approached Woozy outside the Salteen Art Gallery and told him Salteen stole a valuable still life from her father the painter. In truth she just wanted to steal the painting, and the naïve Woozy was gullible enough to fall for her charms and distract Salteen while she took it. It was actually a forgery, the real one was sold by Salteen years ago, so he didn't press charges. When the woman learned it was a fake and couldn't sell it she conned Woozy out of $60 so he'd take it. The real artist saw it and liked it better than his own work, so he paid Woozy $1,000 for it. When this became known the woman and Salteen both harassed Woozy, asking him for money, but he just beat feet.

(Plastic Man (Quality) #17) - Plas and Woozy foiled a bank robbery, but the crooks squirted Plas with a solvent, making him vulnerable to their handguns. The injured Plas was patched up by Gordon Gray, chief chemist of Amalgamated Products, who d seen to Plas  health in the past. He recognized the solvent as an invention of his that Plas convinced him to turn over to the government. His ex-assistant Doctor Pipette stole it, so Gray gave him a treatment that would make Plas immune to it. Plas confronted the robbers and Pipette, and after they found their solvent didn't affect him they were easy pickings.

(Plastic Man (Quality) #17) - Plas helped a mugging victim, and suspected Enterprising Willie in the robbery but couldn't prove anything. Willie took over Osgood s Rubber Lab by force and sold girdles, suspenders, and other products that his ads claimed were made from the same rubber as Plas. The items were created from Osgood s experimental rubber, and although they were durable they soon wore out. Woozy bought a girdle to impress a lady friend, but when it broke and his flab was exposed she sent him packing. A mob formed and blamed Plas for the defective products., but he proved that he was never in business with Enterprising Willie. Willie s mugging victim identified him, and Plas sent the crook to jail.

(Plastic Man (Quality) #21) - Plas and Woozy attended a performance of the mind-reader Kra Vashnu. Impressed that he was the real deal, Plas wanted to ask him to assist the F.B.I. on cases, but found Vashnu over the body of his murdered lover Diana. To avoid suspicion Kra faked a suicide attempt, and later told Plas that he suspected Harry Edmonds, who was actually the man Diana was going to run away with. Plas found Edmonds dead, and although it looked lire a suicide Plas deduced that Kra was the culprit. He made a very public show of exposing Kra as a murderer, so the villain went into hiding. He kidnapped Woozy, but Plas knew it was a trap so he sent a fellow F.B.I. agent disguised as him. Kra locked him in a carwash where the water nozzles were loaded with a solvent to dissolve Plas, but the agent was unaffected. Plas arrived, but couldn't capture Kra because he could anticipate his moves. Plas thought about Woozy having a gun and having the drop on Kra, frightening him, and allowing Plas to knock him cold.

(Plastic Man (Quality) #21) - Woozy fled from an ugly woman that was enamored with him, and ended up in the lab of Prof. Putter where he begged for his dinner. The woman found him, and swallowed some of the scientist s potion XYZ-99, which made her beautiful. Woozy suddenly wanted her, but now that she was good looking her standards were higher. Woozy gulped down potion XYZ-100, which made him brave, and fought with the girls new beau Errol. The effects of the potions were soon reversed, and Woozy once again fled unwanted attention from the homely gal.

(Plastic Man (Quality) #21) - Plas and Woozy were sent to a salt factory that a supposed lunatic had broken into so he could consume vast quantities of salt. The guard swore the perpetrator was Woozy, so Plas was forced to lock him up. The culprit was actually Amorpho, an alien capable of assuming the shape of anyone he encountered, but who needed to consume salt to survive. Plas found Amorpho, who escaped, disguised himself as Plas, and stole more salt. Amorpho and Plas fought, and Plas tied him in knots, forcing him to surrender. Amorpho agreed to return to outer space, and Woozy was freed, but only forgave Plas after his friend treated him to ice cream sodas.

(Plastic Man (Quality) #22) - Plas and Woozy pursued Mugs Merkle, who d stolen valuable bonds. Merkle was meeting his conman friend Pitch Penny, who d invented Plasticizer that turned anything it was poured on to rubber. Woozy interrupted the meeting by running into Pitch, and the Plasticizer broke and seeped into the city s water supply. Suddenly everyone in town had the powers of Plastic Man. Plas dealt with would-be crimefighters and super powered crooks until the effects of the Plasticiser naturally wore off. Woozy wanted to know why he never got powers, and it turned out that only people who bathed in the water got them, and Woozy skipped his last few baths.

(Plastic Man (Quality) #22) - Woozy vacationed on Dopi Island where he met Ackley and Rook, servants of King Reginald. The kind was robbing the islanders blind, and they demanded their money back or they would kill Reginald. Woozy was a dead ringer for the king, so his servants set up Woozy as the new king so he d take the fall. Woozy was blissfully unaware of his predicament and spent his time as king feasting and enjoying dancing girls. When the islanders arrived and started shooting at him Reginald was pleased until he saw a news headline about Plas looking for his missing partner and vowing vengeance if Woozy was harmed. Reginald gave the islanders back their dough, and sent Woozy packing back to America, telling him his term as king was up.

(Plastic Man (Quality) #22) - Syko Case robbed a delivery of breakfast ceral and tampered with the city s scales, making people believe they were starving to death even when they were full. He presented his Zingo Zowies cereal as the only food capable of keeping people alive, and the public fell for it. Plas uncovered the plot, disguised himself as one of Syko s scales, and once inside Syko s hq he apprehended the criminal and his gang. Woozy still believed he was starving and continued to chow down on Zingo Zowies.

(Plastic Man (Quality) #27) - Plas was trying to get dirt on crook Corkscrew Collins, and caught him posing as a sorcerer and swindling millionaire Winthrop Snavely with the help of his girlfriend Devastating Dinah. He produced a magic potion and made Dinah seem to appear from thin air, convincing Snavely to give him $50,000 for the formula. Plas pursued the crooks, but Woozy kept getting in his way because he was smitten with Dinah. Plas chased them from their hideout, and they returned to Snavely to get more money to leave town, but Snavely, knowing he d been swindled, threw the potion in Collins  eyes, blinding him and allowing Plas to apprehend him.

(Plastic Man (Quality) #27) - Chief Brenner showed Plas and Woozy around the government s new top-secret department Project X. Woozy recognized one of the workers as Wilberforce, a performer at county fairs with a photographic memory, and suspected him of being a spy. He dragged Plas to the Scarlet Sarong nightclub, where Wilberforce requested a song from the singer Gigi. She began the song, which contained the word Cairo in the title, and Plas saw two suspicious types leave, so he followed them and watched them give a message to the espionage artist the Leader involving Cairo. Wilberforce appeared, knocked out Plas and Woozy, and killed the two hoods for leading Plas to the Leader. Plas  only other lead was Gigi, so even though she was an unwitting part of the Leader's plans he tried to have her killed. Plas made the save and uncovered the Leader as Wilberforce, who was transmitting code to himself to test the loyalty of his henchmen.

(Plastic Man (Quality) #27) - While chasing a girl Woozy ran into the hypnotist and jewel thief Hypno the Great, who mesmerized him and gave him directions to a house on Laurel Drive. He sent Woozy to bring Plas there, and rigged the house full of explosives, hoping to eliminate Plas so he could move his jewels without interference. Plas avoided the trap, and disguised himself as a jewel on Hypno s finger, and when the time was right revealed himself and took out the crook.

(Plastic Man (Quality) #27) - Woozy was sick of Plas not letting him go on cases so he enrolled in Professor Chizzel's Scientific Detective School, which was actually a criminal front. Chizzel was going to rob the Mugwump Pearls from Darter's so he told Woozy they d already been taken and asked him to solve the case. He assumed Woozy would arouse suspicion when the pearls were actually taken, but Woozy claimed the pearls were a fake and ran out of the store with them. Darter's put imitation pearls in there place, and when Woozy arrived with the police they caught Chizzlre trying to take the imitations. Woozy was proud he solved a case even if he went about it backwards.

(Plastic Man (Quality) #27) -  Plas confronted the crook Spats Spiro and warned him not to try the job he was planning on the Horgan Trust. Spats wasn't frightened, and took a taxi to the bank, not realizing his driver was a disguised Woozy, who was keeping Plas informed of the ongoing situation. Two of Spats henchmen blasted their way into the bank, and Plas apprehended them, but Spats laughed that Plas couldn't pin the job on him. Knowing that Spats suffered from motion sickness Plas made himself into a hammock and rocked the crook until he confessed. 

(Plastic Man (Quality) #27) - Gat Gatsby robbed the city bank in broad daylight by distracting the public and guards with a plane modified to look like a U.F.O. Wooz'd gotten a camera for his birthday from Plas, and had stumbled across Gatsby s goons mocking up the U.F.O. while looking for photo subjects. He wasn't taken in by the fake and followed the goons to Gatsby s hq in an attempt to round them up. He was nearly killed, but fortunately Plas was following him and saved the day.

(Plastic Man (Quality) #28) - Plas and Woozy were assigned to guard a priceless French statue being taken by Jacques Gasteau from America to France by boat. Femme fatale Shasta stole the statue and tied up Woozy, but when she took on Plastic Man she met her match. When gunning him down didn't work she threw the statue overboard, not wishing anyone to have it, but Plas extended his harm to save it.

(Plastic Man (Quality) #28) - Plas and Woozy busted up the crime enterprise of Hoko, who stumbled upon a chemical that made glass disappear, and had his gang pose as window washers to rob stores in daring daytime robberies.

(Plastic Man (Quality) #28) - Smuggler Dutyfree Schultz evaded Plas due to his hi-tech gadgets, and when there were spottings of the legendary Monster of Llendwymorra in the Atlantic Plas guessed that Schults was involved. Woozy made a bet with a man from Llendwymorra that he could disprove the creature s existence, and stumbled up the alleged creature, actually a submarine built by Schultz. Plas rescued Woozy from Schultz and brought the smuggler to justice.

(Plastic Man (Quality) #28) - Woozy, in need of money for the ice cream parlor, landed a job as a babysitter. He went to the wrong address and stumbled upon a gang, who dressed Oscar, a midget, as a baby to keep Woozy out of their way while they pulled a bak job. Oscar left the house to buy cigars, and Woozy thought he lost his baby, so he called the police, who arrived in time to catch the gang as they returned from their job.

(Police Comics (Quality) #90) - Woozy and Plas checked in on their old adversary Brainy Rivers and learned he d reinvented himself as pirate Captain Rivers and had slaughtered the crew of the Mary Scott and stolen their shipment of diamonds. Plastic Man investigated the looting, and after overhearing Rivers  wharf crew discussing the John Browd, their next target, he got a job aboard the ship. Woozy stowed aboard because he thought pirates were exciting. Rivers and his crew tried to board the Browd, but Plas stopped them. On Rivers ship he allowed himself an Woozy to be captured so he could find where Rivers had the diamonds hidden on his boat. Once Rivers tipped his hand, Plas rounded up Rivers and his crew.

(Plastic Man (Quality) #33) - Plas and Woozy encountered a gang robbin warehouses on the waterfront, using movie projected criminals on a different warehouse to distract any potential witnesses. Plas followed them back to their hideout and met Professor Valence, their leader, who wanted to become the Overlord of Crime, and intended to do away with Plas. He tried to melt Plas in a chemical solution, and when that failed froze him stiff. Woozy warmed up Plas with his body heat before Valence could shatter Plas with a hammer. Valence was about to use a lightning generator on the heroes when Plas knocked him out and sent him to jail.

(Plastic Man (Quality) #33) - The Chief sent Plas and Woozy to Midville, where regional crime syndicate bosses were having a meeting. No one knew the identity of the east and west leaders, so their assignment was to take pictures of them. Unfortunately Woozy used up the whole role on a pretty switchboard operator that he convinced to pose for him. Plas tried to take pictures of Baxter and Wheel, the bosses, but they spotted him and pursued Plas. When Woozy told Plas of his error he knew he d actually have to bring the bosses in to the police. Plas disguised himself as a camera, and when the bosses tried to destroy it Plas caught them.

(Plastic Man (Quality) #33) - The Chief sent Plas and Woozy to Lavish Park to guard young heir Phil T. Rich II, whom kidnappers had made attempts on. The Terrible Two and a Half Gang snatched Phil, switching him with Stretch, the midget of the gang. Plas was wise to them, followed them to their hideout and rescued Phil.

(Plastic Man (Quality) #34) - When smugglers continued to evade the coast guard they asked for volunteers to patrol the shore, and Plas and Woozy gave credentials to private yacht owner Van Victor and his secretary Dotty. Woozy ripped his pants, and out of modesty ran into a building on Victor s estate, but Victor dragged him out, telling him it was unsafe. Woozy told Plas he saw cargo in the building, and Plas was suspicious enough to scot the Victor place at night. Plas allowed Victor to capture him, and learned that he ran the smuggling ring. The smugglers arrived in a submarine, and they prepared to throw the heroes overboard when Plas made himself into a steering wheel and brought the sub to the coast guard.

(Plastic Man (Quality) #34) - Woozy was chosen to judge the Centerville ice skating contest, and promised his new girlfriend Alma Glutz, who he loved because she had money, that he d make her the winner. Gangster Hot Rod Ranky, Marco the knife thrower and a police officer all had their girlfriends in the contest, and they all threatened Woozy to guarantee their girl would win. Woozy almost had a nervous breakdown, and at the contest all the girls pushed to get close to him because they thought he was cute. A massive catfight erupted, and since Alma was the only one not involved, and thus able to skate, Woozy proclaimed her the winner.

(Plastic Man (Quality) #34) - Plas and Woozy went on vacation to a north woods lumber camp run by Mr. Armstrong. Plas found the latest mauling victim of the Wolf Men, and Armstrong told Plas that most of his workers were planning to quit in fear of being attacked. Plas discovered that the camp's foreman Waldo and his underlings were dressing as wolves, and making attacks with trained wolves to wrest control of the camp from Armstrong. The heroes exposed Waldo and defeated him.

(Plastic Man (Quality) #34) - Chief Brandon sent Plas and Woozy to investigate the steep drop in military enlistment in Rinald County. Plas talked to the recruitment officers, while Woozy got invited to a party by a pretty girl. Subversive Ivanaov threw his decadent parties full of beautiful women to convince men they d be losing out on all the fun oif they went into the army. He recognized Woozy, and guessing Plas had found him out he kidnapped Woozy and sent a ransom note demanding that Plas leave town. Plas disguised himself as a potential army recruit to get one of Ivanov's girls attention, and armed with Ivanov's address he busted up the subversive ring and freed Woozy.

(Plastic Man (Quality) #35) - Plas and Woozy investigated a UFO in Corn Flats after objects started disappearing from the area. The aliens were the Invisible Invaders, who tried to kidnap Woozy and others because they needed to study humanity before invading Earth. Plas boarded their ship and forced them to flee back to Saturn.

(Plastic Man (Quality) #37) - The Chief sent Plas and Woozy two find two missing atomic scientists, and while on the road the heroes stopped to have a picnic and were assaulted by giant ants. They fled and met the atomic scientists who d created them to conquer civilization. They told Plas they didn't count on the ants gaining human intelligence and rebelling. Plas made himself up as a giant anteater, causing the ants to run over a cliff in terror, falling to their death. The scientists decided to make Plas and Woozy their new test subjects, but Plas scared them by shaping himself like a giant ant, and they were terrified enough to be captured.

(Plastic Man (Quality) #37) - Woozy got hired as a life guard and looked forward to female attention, but lifeguard Reggie didn't want Woozy cutting in on his action. He had Woozy demonstrate his abilities, but directed the rescue girl to fight him. She pushed Woozy s head underwater, and was the one to bring him back to shore. Reggie told him he d have to watch the children s wading pool when two people started drowning. Reggie was forced to let Woozy go into action to save one of the women, who turned out to be a rich old eccentric that rewarded Woozy with her moneybelt. Woozy bought a fancy car and started waving around money, stealing all of Reggie's girls.

(Plastic Man (Quality) #37) - Plas and Woozy went to Mexico to investigate a ring smuggling illegal immigrants to America. They posed as Mexicans, made contact with the ring, and arranged to be brought over the border so they could see how the operation worked. Woozy blabbed that they were F.B.I. agents to impress a girl, but she was part of the ring and informed her boss. The ring put Plas and Woozy on a plane and threw them out, but Plas made himself into a parachute. He posed as Woozy's ghost and got the girl and the boss of the ring to confess.

(Plastic Man (Quality) #37) - During a drive in the country Woozy stopped to pick flowers and fell down a hole. Plas followed him down, and it led to a deep subterranean city inhabited by Inner Earthmen. They planned an invasion of the surface world, and had a bomb ten times more powerful than the atomb bomb as their secret weapon. They wanted to use Plas and Woozy as test subjects for their weapons, but the heroes escaped. Plas stole the Inner Earthmen s bomb, and used it to destroy their civilization.

(Plastic Man (Quality) #45) - Woozy and Plas captured the brutish thief Ogre, but Ogre was freed from custody by Marloff, who performed scientific experiments on Ogre and made him superhuman. Plas fought the duo, but found he was no match for Ogre so he tied Ogre to an electric generator, reversing Marloff s process and leaving Ogre powerless. Meanwhile Woozy bopped Marloff over the head, capturing him.

(Plastic Man (Quality) #45) -Woozy wooed Marva Muggins, but she wanted nothing to do with him because he was poor and because she already ha a man, Mr. Coolcash. Woozy inadvertently captured criminal Rotten Lil, landing him a huge reward and making Marva like him again.

(Plastic Man (Quality) #45) - Woozy and Plas learned of a Tong plot to kill Lotus Lantern, who witnessed one of their hits. She refused their protection, seeing no reason for it, but he followed her and saved her from several Tong hatchet men. Plas realized she was waiting for new contact lenses, and was never aware that she witnessed a hit or that the Tong was after her.

(Police Comics #101) - Woozy and Plas tailed the Genius, who'd just been released from jail, and found he was u to his old tricks. Plas played tricks on him to make his gang thing his time in jail ha left him feeble-minded, and after the Genius revealed the plans for his next time Plas brought him into custody.

(DC Comics Presents #39) - Plastic Man and Woozy were excited when Superman came to town, but he didn't have much time for them, as he was keeping an eye on reformed villain Toyman, who was showing his wares at the Acme City toy expo. Acme City villains Dollface and Fliptop stole Toyman s toy Waldo, the Wind-Up Woofer, which coincidentally barked at a frequency that unlocked a nearby vault. Toyman went over the edge, and teamed up with the villains to rob the vault, but Superman teamed up with Plastic Man to defeat them. Woozy was starstruck by Superman, and was inspired by the emergency signal watch his pal Jimmy Olsen had, so he crafted a swiss clock watch for Plastic Man that had a little mechanical Woozy screaming for help. Plas and Supes were less than thrilled, and snuck out on Woozy during his demonstration.

(JLA #51) - The Cathexis unleashed the sentient energy Id on Earth, which transformed wishes into reality, causing havoc all over Earth. When Superman wished he could separate his superhero and private lives the Id split him, Plas and the other members of the JLA with secret identities in two. Plas sought council and friendship from Woozy.

(JLA #60) - Plas spent Christmas with Woozy Winks and his sister Wanda and nephew Wheezy. Plas told Weezy a Christmas story in which the JLA saved Santa Claus from Neron, who wanted to replace Santa, giving out presents in exchange for boys and girls being naughty.

Comments: Created by Jack Cole.

Woozy Winks was originally published by Quality Comics, which DC obtained the rights to in 1956.

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