tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3024420441109756132.post5216879134878156440..comments2024-03-23T11:45:42.089-07:00Comments on Cole's Comics: It's Jake With Me - Stretching PAST Playboy in 1963Paul C.Tumeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05398929835829679477noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3024420441109756132.post-55712725524909874452015-09-18T14:01:26.706-07:002015-09-18T14:01:26.706-07:00Thanks for your kind comment. That's a good qu...Thanks for your kind comment. That's a good question about original Jack Cole Plastic Man art. It's possible there might be a tiny bit stashed in a collector's archive -- but I have never ever seen any evidence of this. COle did Plas for Qualitry Comics, which was owned and run by Everett "Busy" Arnold, who was said to have destroyed the original art to his books to prevent it from being stolen and published by competitors. This is a sign of how little they valued the original art for comic books in those days. It's said that Arnold would cut the pages up with scissors and throw them away in front of his artists! I don't know if any of that is true, but it makes for a colorful story and could possibly explain why not a single page of Jack Cole Plastic Man art has ever surfaced. Now -- a few years ago, Quality artist and editor Gill Fox (a friend of Cole's) in his old age sold several pieces of his own original art from Quality that he had managed to spirit away and kept for decades. I suspect that Jack Cole very likely kept a lot of his originals including Plastic Man -- but he had a flood in the early 1950s that apparently destroyed most of his archives and art. A few years later, when he took his life, his wife refused to have anything to do with promoting her late husband's work and vanished, possibly with some of Cole's art -- but that is pure speculation. This would make a good blog post -- there's more to tell. Anyway, thanks! Somewhere on this blog I posted the original hand-colored page to a Silver Streak story -- Paul C.Tumeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05398929835829679477noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3024420441109756132.post-72219805351647489712015-09-18T13:48:48.664-07:002015-09-18T13:48:48.664-07:00This is such an amazing site--thank you so much!! ...This is such an amazing site--thank you so much!! So much to go through, but I have a very basic question (and if this is covered in an article, please point me to it):<br /><br />Is there any original Cole Plastic Man art in existence? If so where, and is it viewable?siduri42https://www.blogger.com/profile/00933127660100191220noreply@blogger.com