Today in Comics History, April 6, 1917: Shortest history ever of World War I

from "Too Tough To Live" in Thrilling Comics #68 (Pines, October 1948), creators uncredited and unknown

Today in Comics History, November 11, 1918, Armistice/Veterans Day: And nothing was every bad or wrong, ever again.

from "The Life of Woodrow Wilson" in Real Life Comics #2 (Pines, December 1941*), writer and artists uncredited and unknown, letters by Ed Hamilton
*This comic would have been on the newsstand at least a couple months before Pearl Harbor.

(Spoiler: They did not win the peace.)


from "America Becomes a World Power, 1898-1918" in True Comics #24 (Parents' Magazine Press, June 1943), script by David S. Muzzey
Still, not everyone was as visibly ecstatic about Armistice Day as Woodrow Wilson:


from "Too Tough To Live" in Thrilling Comics #68 (Pines, October 1948), creators uncredited and unknown

Today in Comics History, August 10: Happy Hirthday, Herbert Hoover!

This is an expanded and updated version of a post originally published February 22, 2010.

Born on this day: Herbert Hoover, inventor of the vacuum cleaner! I'm bettin' he's in lots of comic books, huh? I bet everybody knows who he is, right, Bruce Wayne in your snappy green hat? Say, where do you buy a green hat?


from Batman: Scar of the Bat one-shot (DC, 1996), script by Max Allan Collins, pencils and inks (and colors?) by Eduardo Barreto, letters by Todd Klein