I took a look at Art Spiegelman's Jack Cole and Plastic Man and realized that I had seen this character before. I was first introduced to plastic man in an episode of Batman: The Brave and the Bold on Cartoon Network. He was actually a reoccurring character on the show and appeared in quite a few episodes. The show was famous for using characters and villains from the silver age of DC comics. So I assumed plastic man was a DC character from the earlier years. However, after looking at this book I realized that DC did not originally create Plastic Man. Originally the comic was published by  Quality Comics in 1941, but In 1956 when the company shut down DC comics picked up most of the characters including Plastic Man, incorporating him into the DC universe. Plastic Man has also had several short animated short stories and a saturday morning cartoon show. The comics themselves are obviously meant to be comical as the character's personality certainly reflects. Our class discussion also made me remember the Duck Tales cartoon that premiered on the disney channel when I was a kid. However, the show focused more on uncle scroodge and the kids with little to no use of donald in the story. The show had the catchiest theme song too and to this day it is almost impossible not to hear it without having it stuck in your head for the next week and a half. Another thing that I found interesting is the fact that they never seem to explain who these kids are. They call Donald uncle but back then that was simply used as a form of respect to a family friend and not just and actual uncle. But either way its never really explained who their parents are or what might have happened to them. disney in general seems to do this a lot. Having parents out of the picture for no reason at all. A good example is Goofy, who has a son named Max. However, Max's mom is never really brought up in any form. We're just supposed to put the pieces together ourselves. Most of the time we can just assume they've died but why not just say that? I know these stories are meant for kids but kids go through death just like the rest of us so there's no reason they can't give a little back story.