Today in Comics History, May 10, 1869: Thanks to the Dreaded Deadline Doom, Real Fact Comics is forced to re-use an old script

Oh for Pete's sake, Real Fact Comics! You wouldn't catch your counterparts at the competing Real Life Comics stooping so low!



from (top) "Scoops...Pictures to Remember" in Real Fact Comics #10 (DC, September 1947), creators uncredited and unknown, and
(bottom) from Real Fact Comics #21 (DC, July 1949), pencils and inks by Joe Kubert
OH COME ON NOW REAL LIFE COMICS


from "Leland Stanford: Railroad Pioneer of the West" in Real Life Comics #11 (Pines, May 1943), pencils and inks by Maurice Gutwirth
Ahhh, I guess we'll let you off the hook, Real Life Comics, since you came up with it first. But for shame, Real Fact Comics. You should have more original imagintion, like they do at EC Comics.


from Picture Stories from American History #4 (EC, Summer 1947), script by Jerry Coleman, pencils and inks by Allen Simon
OH FER CRYIN' OUT LOUD EC