Police Comics #64 (1947)

A truck from a candy company drives past a crowd of eagerly-waiting kids before tossing out a package of confections, but Woozy is the fastest and claims the free sweets first. He almost cracks his teeth biting into rubies baked into the chocolates, however, which Plastic Man recognizes as the stolen Jewels of Sinkapink. After handing in the jewels to the chief by stretching an arm through his window, Plas and Woozy go to investigate the candy factory the concealing confections came from. They manage to sneak inside, then are barely there a few minutes before Woozy makes his presence known to flirt with some female workers, and gets security called down on the heroic duo. Plas is captured when he emerges from a vat covered in sticky taffy, which company head Taffy Welch freezes by dousing him with cold water from a fire hose. Unlikely salvation presents itself when gangster Nobby Norton and his boys walk right in, the gate guard having gone home early when he saw Plastic Man lifting Woozy up from inside the fence. He demands the Sinkapink Jewels, which already went out. Plastic Man says he knows where they are, but isn't telling. Nobby has one of his brawny henchmen attempt to "persuade" Plastic Man with a sledgehammer, which just smashes off the sticky coating keeping him from moving. A brawl breaks out between the hero and Nobby's gang, with Taffy Welch surreptitiously sticking everyone to the floor by opening the tap on a keg of molasses. He and his female assistants escape through a hidden door in the ceiling, but are caught by a cop coming down the emergency ladder. Welch confesses to all the contraband they're shipping out hidden in candy, but the copy was actually only coming to report that the guard booth was empty. Hearing Welch confess to all those other crimes, though, he gets out the cuffs. Woozy comes along with Nobby Norton to arrest too, and then reveals the gun he was using to herd the gangster was actually only a chocolate replica.