High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Elongated Man (Randolph "Ralph" Dibny) is a fictional comic book superhero in the DC universe. He is a reserve member of the Justice League. His first appearance was in The Flash vol. 1, #112 (May 12, 1960). He was partially created by Julius Schwartz, who noted that if he would have known that DC owned the name "Plastic Man" (acquired in 1956 along with other Quality Comics properties), he`d never have chosen Elongated Man as the name for his own character.