Today in Comics History: If you know what's good for you, don't appear on Roy Raymond's TV show today

Why not? Well, first of all, Alicia Masters is appearing on it in reverse drag:


Panels from "The Unlucky Guest Stars!" in Detective Comics #217 (March 1955), pencils and inks by Ruben Moreira

All's well, until under a full moon, the villainous Purple Man is run over by a purple car going "EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!" at him.



As Dostoevsky might say: "Things keep occurin'!"



TMZ is quick to leap upon the muckraking bandwagon, and thousands of internet commenters strike out against TV Detective Roy Raymond! Not pictured: Comic book Guy going "Worst...show...ever."



We then go on to prove that like Friday nights in 2012, Friday nights in 1955 was the TV Graveyard for About-to-Be-Cancelled Series. "There's a two-headed carp on TV!" was not a call to watch in the fifties.



And hey, wouldn't most viewers have seen that weird-ass multi-colored South American plant like this?:



Well, here's Roy himself to wrap it all up with a cleverly detected ending!:



Okay, uh...Huh?!?