(Plastic Man I #2) - Plas, Gordy and Mike were at the Mammoth Park Zoo, where one of Dr. Dome’s agents was posing as an ice cream vendor, and sold the trio some sweets. There was a timebomb inside Plas’ ice cream pop, but when he saw it was pistachio flavored he threw it away. The resulting explosion stunned two bank robbers running away from the cops, and the police congratulated Plas on another heroic deed. Dr. Dome watched the scene unfold on his remote viewing screen and fumed at Plas always getting the best of him. He bemoaned that he’d been trying to destroy Plastic Man for seven years, but had been foiled every single time. Dome dreaded Plas’ upcoming speech at the Annual Luncheon of the Society of Law Enforcement Officers, and wanted him destroyed before he could make it. Lynx told him to calm down, and mused about fighting Plas without his powers. Dr. Dome said he could use his time machine to travel back in time to when Plas was a small child and defeat him, but no one knew Plas’ secret identity or where he came from. Dome remembered that three people were rumored to know Plastic Man’s origins, so he used his triplicate machine to turn Lynx into three women and told her to pose as a reporter to interview Plas’ associates. As Shirley Glotz, a reporter for “The Peter Wabbit Weekly,” she bent Capatin McSniffe’s ear. McSniffe told her that when he was a patrolman he met “Eel,” an undercover operative from Migraine, Missouri posing as a criminal. He gave McSniffe a tip about the notorious criminal Spider’s plan to steal a bop bag from the Big Deal Toy Factory. They interrupted the robbery, but during a fight with the Spider “Eel” fell into a vat of Nutty Putty. He was transformed into Plastic Man and caught the crook. “Billie” De Kid of “The Cattle Breeder’s Journal” interviewed Madam De Lute, who told her that while riding a railroad car across her estate she was robbed by the Japanese Beetle. A gypsy fiddler providing music in the railcar turned out to be an undercover railroad detective from Chillblains, Nevada, and pursued the Beetle across the train cars. The Beetle hosed him down with milk from one of the railcars, knocking him into a railcar filled with acid, and the resulting explosion turned him into Plastic Man. Vava Vavoom of “Playguy Magazine” interviewed Gordy, and he told her that when he was a young boy scout his troop was held up by a crook named the Frog. An unnamed yogurt farmer drew the Frog away from the boys, bringing him to the yogurt farm where he worked. The farmer was accidentally exposed to yogurt infected with diphtheria, turning him into Plastic Man, and he easily captured the crook. The three Lynxes returned to Dome, and after he made his daughter one person he grumbled that he had no time to check out the three cities where Plas might actually be from. Plas made his speech at the luncheon, and even though the Society had voted to name Dr. Dome Public Enemy #1 Plas made the final decision, and put Dome at #17. Dome had a fit at being snubbed as Public Enemy #1 for eight years running. After the luncheon Gordy asked Plas why he had three completely different origins, and Plas said that was his little secret.

(Plastic Man I #4) - Madam Merciless approached Dr. Dome, offering to make his nemesis Plastic Man his helpless slave in exchange for two million dollars, and Dome jumped at the offer. Madam De Lute and Mike attended a masked ball thrown by The Society to Preserve Aardvarks, and Mike invited Plas and Gordy. Madam Merciless appeared at the party, cutting in on Mike’s dance with Plas, and Plas thought he recognized her from somewhere, so he asked her outside to talk. She used her compact mirror to hypnotize Plas, and demanded he follow her out of the ball. Merciless employed two witch doctors, who cast a spell on Plas to make him follow any orders Dome gave him. Dome wanted to see if Plas really was under his control, and booted Plas in the rear, and then made him thank Dome for it. Plas inwardly fumed, neither the hypnotism nor the voodoo spell actually worked, he was just playing along to find out what Dome was up to. Merciless gave Plas a physical exam, cooing over how impressive his body was, and Lynx was enraged, jealous that she wasn’t the one with her hands all over Plastic Man. Lynx asked Dome if she could take Plas out for a spin, and he never could say no to his daughter. Lynx brought Plas to a park, and ordered him to kiss her, convinced that one kiss would forever make him her love slave. She then had Plas steal a mink coat for her, but they were spotted by Gordy and Mike, who’d been looking all over for Plas since he left the party. Lynx pushed Mike in front of a car, and Plas was forced to break his cover to save Mike. Madam Merciless had been trailing Lynx and Plas, and shot the hero with a hypno-dark before dragging him back to Dome’s headquarters and having her witch doctors cast another spell on Plas, and she promised Dome that this time she was absolutely certain it’d worked. Dome had Plas rob museums and an armored car before commanding him to walk across telephone lines to rob the Witherspoon mansion. Merciless had shortchanged her voodoo men for their work, so they undid the spell on Plas, who instantly snapped to, but lost his balance. Lynx, shot out of a cannon, Merciless riding a motorcycle, and Mike, flying a helicopter, all tried to keep Plas from falling. They all grabbed him at the same time, and in a tug-of-war over Plas ended up stripping him to his underwear. Plas captured Dr. Dome and handed him over to Captain McSniffe, who also arrested Plas for indecent exposure.

(Plastic Man I #6) - Dr. Dome used his new flying saucer to rob a band, but Sphinx, a new supervillain in town, got to the bank first, and when Dome objected to him stealing what he intended to steal the Sphinx ripped a column from the front of the bank out of the ground and tossed it at Dome and his men. Plas approached Sphinx, who grabbed a baby from a passing mother and tossed him high in the air, allowing him to escape while Back at his hq Dome complained to his daughter that the Sphinx had foiled the last four of his plans, and he came up with a new scheme that he was sure the Sphinx couldn’t ruin. Plas saved the baby. Plas met with Gordy, who was worried that since Dome and Sphinx were feuding that Sphinx would try to kill Plastic Man, one-upping Dome by succeeding in what he’d failed to do for several years. Dr. Dome robbed a baseball stadium’s box-office during a game, but the Sphinx was waiting for him, disguised as an umpire, and got the drop on him with a gun. Plas had the game staked out, disguised as a cola advertisement, and the Sphinx tossed a grenade filled with solvent at him. Dome used a compressed air gun to knock the grenade into the stands, saving Plas, but melting the stadium’s girders. Plas had to hold up the crumbling stadium so the fans could evacuate, allowing Sphinx to slip away. Plas and Dome agreed on a temporary truce to team up and defeat the new villain. Plas helped a little old lady cross the street, and she gave him an apple as a reward. The old lady was actually the Sphinx in disguise, and the apple was really a time bomb. Dome sucked the bomb up into his saucer and ejected it into the air, where it exploded harmlessly. Sphinx ripped a fire hydrant from the ground and the spray of water hit Dome’s saucer, causing him to lose control, but Plas transformed into a glider to allow Dome to safely pilot the saucer to the ground. Plas and Dome worked together to defeat the Sphinx, and shook hands. Dome placed a bomb on Plas’ back, but Plas didn’t fall for his trick and placed it on Dome’s helmet as he walked away.

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