Today in Comics History, March 10, 1949: Roy Raymond receives a missive from a comic book letterer

from "The Land of Lost Years!" (The first appearance of Roy Raymond, TV Detective) in Detective Comics (1937 series) #153 (DC, November 1949), pencils and inks by Ruben Moreira, letterer unknown

Today in Comics History, September 7: Well, it beats watching a rerun of American Dad

from "Roy Raymond's Greatest Challenge" in Detective Comics #240 (DC, February 1957), pencils and inks by Ruben Moreira

Today in Comics History, July 4: Before he added an additional dimension, Mr. Mxyzptlk used to be a lot easier to fool

from "The Genius with Super Power" in Detective Comics #227 (DC, January 1956), script by Jack Miller, pencils and inks by Ruben Moreira

Today in Comics History, June 7: Roy Raymond successfully detects glue

from "The Most Amazing Club in the World!" in Detective Comics #219 (DC, May 1955), pencils and inks by Ruben Moreira

Today in Comics History, May 4, 1953: Light-Bulb Tree returns crying to his therapist

from the Roy Raymond, TV Detective story "The Most Amazing Club in the World!" in Detective Comics #219 (DC, May 1955), pencils and inks by Ruben Moreira

Today in Comics History, January 14: Uatu, P.I., solves another tough case

from "The Man With the Life Ray" in Detective Comics #190 (DC, December 1952), pencils and inks by Ruben Moreira
Who's the bald private dick
That's an observing machine to all the multiverse?
UATU!
Darn straight!


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Today in Comics History, Friday the 13th: If you know what's good for you, don't appear on Roy Raymond's TV show today

Why not? Well, first of all, Alicia Masters is appearing on it in drag:


from "The Unlucky Guest Stars!" in Detective Comics #217 (DC, March 1955), pencils and inks by Ruben Moreira

All's well, until under a full moon, the villainous Purple Man is run over by a purple car going "EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!" at him.


As Dostoevsky might say: "Things keep occurin'!"


TMZ is quick to leap upon the muckraking bandwagon, and thousands of internet commenters strike out against TV Detective Roy Raymond! Not pictured: Comic Book Guy going "Worst...show...ever."


We then go on to prove that like Friday nights in 2012, Friday nights in 1955 was the TV Graveyard for About-to-Be-Cancelled Series. "There's a two-headed carp on TV!" was not a call to watch in the fifties.


And hey, wouldn't viewers in 1955 have seen that weird-ass multi-colored South American plant like this?:


Well, here's Roy himself to wrap it all up with a cleverly detected ending!:


Okay, uh...Huh?!?