Today in Comics History, August 29, 1857: Match wits with Abe Lincoln, and see if you can figure out...whodunnit?!?

from "Murder by Moonlight" in Real Heroes #9 (Parents' Magazine Press, February 1943), creators uncredited and unknown



"There was a desert wind blowing that night. It was one of those hot dry Santa Anas that come down through the mountain passes and curl your hair and make your nerves jump and your skin itch. I'm Abe Lincoln. I'm a private dick."


Abe takes the Case of the Guy Who Was Accused of Murder! (He really needs sometime better to title his stories.) But General Ulysses S. Grant, Sr., is skeptical!


If nothing else, Abe oughta be able to get this guy off on charges of cruel and unusual punishment, what with him being incarcerated in a dutch angled jail an' all.


"All rise. Criminal Court Part Two is now in session, the Honorable George S. Patton presiding."


Jeepers, all this witness testimony don't look good for Abe's pal. This looks like a job for Perry Mason or Ironside or McMillan and Wife or Cold Case!


Abe pulls the oldest trick in the book — and that book is the FARMER'S ALMANAC 1857! The book that told us all hey, this is the year the Indian Rebellion of 1857 is gonna take place!


Hah! Well, that solves the Case of the Missing Moon. The lyin' witness is infuriated and vows revenge!


And that perjurer's name is...


from "The Crimson Claw!" in Ghosts #4 (DC, March 1972), script by Leo Dorfman, pencils and inks by George Tuska, letters by John Costanza
…and now you know...the rest of the story.