Today in Comics History, July 23, 1930: Poor guy didn't even get a picture next to his obit in a comic book

from "Hop Harrigan's History of American Aviation" in All-American Comics (1939 series) #26 (DC/J.R. Publishing, May 1941); text, penils, and inks by Jon Blummer

Today in Comics History, July 8-10, 1929: Harold & Kumar Go to Pizza Hut

from "Hop Harrigan's History of American Aviation" in All-American Comics (1939 series) #26 (DC/J.R. Publishing, May 1941); text, penils, and inks by Jon Blummer

Today in Comics History, January 19, 1911: Platform immediately collapses into canyon because they bought it from Acme Platform Co.

from "Hop Harrigan's History of American Aviation" in All-American Comics #22 (DC/All-American, January 1941); script, pencils, and inks by Jon Blummer

Today in Comics History, December 10, 1941, Dawn: US Military develops a meat grinder that can scream "AIR RAID" when you run a pig through it

from "The Hop Harrigan Quarterly Award for Flying Heroism: Meyer Levin" in Comic Cavalcade #3 (DC/All-American, Summer 1943), creators uncredited and unknown

Today in Comics History, September 14, 1911: Gruesome man in green hat paws at your mail

from "Hop Harrigan's History of American Aviation" in All-American Comics #22 (DC, January 1941); text, pencils, and inks by Jon L. Blummer

Today in Comics History, August 27, 1910: The message was "Guess where I'm texting you from?"

from "Hop Harrigan's History of American Aviation" in All-American Comics #22 (DC, January 1941); text, pencils, and inks by Jon L. Blummer

Today in Comics History, August 1, 1934: Airman breaks eight records mishandling them in baggage claim

from "Hop Harrigan's History of American Aviation" in All-American Comics #29 (DC, August 1941); text, pencils, and inks by Jon L. Blummer

Today in Comics History, June 4, 1935: Curtiss Robin breaks the record formerly held by Alley Kirstie

from "Hop Harrigan's History of American Aviation" in All-American Comics #45 (DC, December 1942); script, pencils, and inks by Joe L. Blummer

Today in Comics History, May 8, 1919: We all agreed to never mention those other two flights

from "Hop Harrigan's History of American Aviation" in All-American Comics (1939 series) #45 (DC, December 1942), text and art by Joe L. Blummer

Today in Comics History, January 29, 1935: Harry Richman convinces Glenn Miller that air flight is safer than ever

from "Hop Harrigan's History of American Aviation" in All-American Comics #45 (DC, December 1942); script, pencils, and inks by Joe L. Blummer

Today in Comics History, January 19, 1911: Bi-plane goes both ways

from "Hop Harrigan's History of American Aviation" in All-American Comics #22 (DC, January 1941); text, panels and inks by Jon Blummer

Today in Comics History, January 12, 1938: What the Vision was really built out of

from "Hop Harrigan's History of American Aviation" in All-American Comics (1939 series) #45 (DC, December 1942), text and art by Joe L. Blummer