A Treasury Of Cole

February, 1994

a gallery of drawings by jack cole, Playboy's definitive cartoonist of the fiftiesJack Cole's first cartoon for Playboy appeared in our fifth issue. Cole quickly came to define Playboy's visual humor. He had begun drawing features and adventure strips in the Thirties and Forties, the most famous of which was his witty parody of superheroes, Plastic Man--a begoggled, rubbery fighter of crime and corruption. But Cole's penchant for the outré made him a likely target of comic book censorship in the...