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by Art Spiegelman, an image of Plastic Man at a Pablo Picasso art exhibit.

It's included in Art Spiegelman and Chip Kidd's biographical book JACK COLE AND PLASTIC MAN: Forms Stretched to their Limits, published in 2001, about 120 of its 150 pages collecting stories and pages of Jack Cole's Golden Age and Pre-Code art. Jack Cole died by suicide in 1958, at age 43.

Jack Cole's work is for me one of the brightest lights of the Golden Age and Pre-Code era.
Along with the likes of Will Eisner, Lou Fine, Simon and Kirby, Rudy Palais, Al Walker, Robert Webb, Matt Baker, Paul Gustavson, Bernard Bailey, Basil Wolverton, Wallace Wood, Frazetta, Al Williamson, Graham Ingels, Alex Toth, Gerald McCann, Gray Morrow, Sam Glanzman, and many other forgotten and under-appreciated talents of that period.