They Keep Assassinating Abe Lincoln
Is there a sub-genre of comics about time travel screwing up the assassination of Abraham Lincoln?
There's this one.
There's this one (I bought a bruised copy for 25 cents.) Plastic Man #9, by Kyle Baker.
I think there might have been something in an EC Science Fiction comic about the concept, but I could be mistaken.
Perhaps the Overstreet Price Guide can start including notations for "Lincoln Assassination Screw-up" such that it does for "Injury to Eye Panels" and "Bondage Scenes" (derived from Wertham's reading of the comics.)
(Note: Here's some comedy akin to a repeated gag found at, of all places, the Comics Journal Message Board.)
I also bought, for a quarter, a battered copy of a 1968 issue of Archie. Review? Inoffensively bland. The highlight of the comic, I suppose, would be this send-off of commercial interruptions (written by Frank Doyle, art by Harry Lucey). It's never going to be reprinted in a digest, because of (1) the wee bit politically incorrect "commercial" for Indian War Paint and (2) the "commercial" that features casual wife-beating.
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