Today in Comics History, May 7, 1915: German murder boat refuses to give a fair chance

This is an expanded and updated version of a post originally published May 7, 2021 and May 7, 2022.


from "The Life of Woodrow Wilson" in Real Life Comics #2 (Pines, December 1941), script and art creators uncredited and unknown, letters by Ed Hamilton

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, April 2, 1917: Peace achieved through greater war

from "The Life of Woodrow Wilson" in Real Life Comics #2 (Pines, December 1941), letters by Ed Hamilton