Today in Comics History, Friday the 13th: 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 drag:


from "The Unlucky Guest Stars!" in Detective Comics #217 (DC, 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 viewers in 1955 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?!?