Editing Jack Cole (artist) (section)

==Legacy==
Cole was posthumously inducted into the comic book industry's [[List of Harvey Award winners#The Jack Kirby Hall of Fame|Jack Kirby Hall of Fame]] in 1991<ref name="ha"/> and the [[List of Eisner Award winners#The Will Eisner Award Hall of Fame|Will Eisner Award Hall of Fame]] in 1999.<ref name="ea"/>

Cole's story "Murder, Morphine and Me", which he illustrated and possibly wrote<ref>Spiegelman and Kidd (2001), p. 91, do not specify who wrote the uncredited story; the [http://comics.org/details.lasso?id=255419#2 Grand Comics Database entry for the issue] cites it as possibly written by Cole.</ref> for publisher [[Magazine Village]]'s ''[[True Crime Comics]]'' No. 2 (May 1947), became a centerpiece of psychiatrist Dr. [[Fredric Wertham]]'s crusade against violent comic books. Wertham, author of the influential study ''[[Seduction of the Innocent]]'', cited a particular panel of the story's dope-dealing narrator about to be stabbed in the eye with a [[hypodermic needle]] as an example of the "injury-to-the-eye" motif.<ref>Chun (2004), p. 4</ref>

In 2003, writer-artist [[Art Spiegelman]] and artist [[Chip Kidd]] collaborated on a Cole biography, ''Jack Cole and Plastic Man: Forms Stretched to Their Limits,'' a portion of which had been published in ''[[The New Yorker]]'' magazine in 1999.