Today in Comics History, November 5, 1605: This scene does not occur in today's story

Take a big steamin' gawk at this cover...


cover of Headline Comics v.2 #11 (#23) (Prize, March 1947), pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Jack Kirby or Joe Simon (?)
...which features this tagline in a font nearly bigger than the title!





Don't confuse it with any of these other "don't do crime" comics...


...because this story is about the biggest November 5 crime of them all!

Oh boy, does this scene occur in today's story! Yes, the terror of the Vegas mob and the nemesis to Eliot Ness and his Go-Ahead-And-Touch-Us-ables: Guy "The Parliament Kid" Fawkes!

By KIRBY! How great is THAT?!?

from "Still Being Burned at the Stake After Four Hundred Years"* in HEADLINE COMICS v2 #11 (#23) (Prize, March 1947), pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Joe Simon (?), letters by Howard Ferguson
(Click picture to gunpowder, treason, and plot-size)
*Paul Simon's worst song.

Oh heck, this barbaric scene could take place in the England of 2022! Make sure to get all the gruesome details, Jack!


Heh heh heh heh oh wait it's just a scarecrow.


Anyway, finally, we're at Today in Comics History, November 5, 1605. Oh how nice! They're gonna send them on an all-expenses paid trip to Bespin!


Yow, such language! Now is that really called for, officers? Yeah, even in the seventeenth century, ACAB.


So just remember that pithy moral that immediately comes to mind when remembering, remembering, the Fifth of November...ing: CRIME NEVER PAYS!

But it does make you historically immortal, so, y'know (shrugs).