Today in Comics History, April 23: Happy birthday, Paulette Breen!

Born on this day: actor and producer Paulette Breen! You may remember her from roles in Wonder Woman, All My Children, Happy Days, or (as seen on Mystery Science Theater 3000), Parts: The Clonus Horror (infamously ripped off by Michael Bay's The Island).




What does this have to do (you may ask) with comic books? Well: as Palisades Park Miss American Teenager, Paulette Breen starred in a DC PSA anti-smoking comic!


"Smoking Is for Squares!" from DC comics cover-dated October 1964, script by Jack Schiff, pencils and inks by Sheldon Moldoff


Palisades Park?!? Now that sounds familiar! Gosh, I hope she got in using a free admission ticket from Superman!


Happy Birthday, Paulette!