Today in Comics History, March 23, 1918: "It is truly an honor to be bombed by such an impressive weapon, m'sieur."

An extremely weird text story to publish less than seven years after the end of World War II: a history, and almost outright admiration, for a long-range World War I German cannon that shelled Paris and killed more than 300 people. What...what the actual heck, DC?



"The Fantastic Story of the Paris Gun" from Batman (1940 series) #71 (DC/National, June 1952), pencils and inks by Raymond Perry
I guess the fact that it was buried in a text story meant that no one was actually going to read it, but sheesh, Whitney Ellsworth.