Today in Comics History, June 25, 1876: In the dictionary, this is the picture next to the phrase "famous last words"

This is an expanded and updated version of a post originally published June 25, 2022.


from Picture Stories from American History #4 (EC, Summer 1947), script by Jerry Coleman, pencils and inks by Allen Simon



OH BOY, A CUSTARD STAND!...Oh wait, I've made another one of my silly misteaks.


from "Custer's Last Stand" in Two-Fisted Tales (1950 series) #27 (EC, May 1952), script by Harvey Kurtzman, pencils and inks by Wally Wood, colors by Marie Severin, letters by Ben Oda
So...how'd that work out for ya, guys?


Meanwhile a hundred years later, this remarkably stupid military decision retconned to be meddling by...I dunno, a fifth-dimensional imp or something.


from "Man of Molten Steel!" in Superman #263 (DC, April 1973), script by Elliot S! Maggin, pencils by Curt Swan, inks by Murphy Anderson
Oh, there's no need to be sarcastic about it, Alfred.


from Detective Comics #1002 (DC, June 2019), script by Peter J. Tomasi, pencils by Brad Walker, inks by Andrew Hennessy, colors by Nathan Fairbairn, letters by Rob Leigh