Sunday, March 4, 2007

On this week's Sunday Funny we feel compelled to... actually, we got nothing. So we instead of looking for something that fits our idea, we just looked for something neat. We found the first issue of DC Comics' Real Fact Comics. With a cover date of March/April 1946, the comic features stories inspired by the drama of real life. Although this comic is over sixty years old, the cover suggests it reads a lot like contemporary television news. There are profiles of the Airborne Forest Rangers, Jean Laffite, Houdini, a ghost story from guam and even a piece on Raffles, "the bird that thinks!" All in one issue! All in color! For a dime!




Given that DC Comics is still in business and were never sued (as far as we know) about this, the inclusion of the words "real" and "fact" in the title and "true" on the cover copy make us wonder if maybe we overstated the parallels with contemporary television news.