I know we're not supposed to laugh at things like this anymore, but I can't help but point-out the "inadvertent funny" found in the opening splash panel of JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #44 (DC Comic, Cover Date: May, 1966)!
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...And quietly bow-out with what little remaining blogger-dignity I may still possess left intact!
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Hmm... maybe Wertham was onto something. Apparently Mark Evanier thinks so... Here's a blog post in which he talks about this, and mentions this very panel... not as evidence for Wertham's thesis, but as example of "Batman" writers poking fun at his thesis. https://www.newsfromme.com/2005/02/10/proof-positive/
Well, don’t that beat all!
I *was* reading Mark Evanier’s Blog in 2005, so I have no doubt that I saw the post in question… but the honest truth is that I ran across this panel from my copy of JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #44 while busily engaged in the (all together now) “Great Comic Book Organization and Storage Retirement Project” while setting up the boxes labeled 1966-1967. “Box #2”, to be precise “Donald Duck #109 thru The Outer Limits”. I’m now slowly wending my way through 1964-1965, for those of you wondering how it’s going.
It is from this (delightfully) ongoing activity that spring the many posts that grace (?) this humble Blog. And such was the case for the “Very Awkward Occurrence of Plague”.
However, Mark Evanier wasn’t “my original mentor” (whether he knew it or not) for nothing. In many such matters we either tend to think alike (…though we differ to the max on Broadway musicals and Sci-Fi TV shows), or I’ve eventually come around to his way of thinking. So, it doesn’t surprise me that we’d separately and individually come to focus on this particular panel of Silver Age comics notability.
HERE is Sergio’s link to Mark’s Blog post, for your coincidental reading pleasure.
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