Imagine what this page must have looked like to a mainstream superhero audience in 1972 when it was first published:

No kidding. Musta been some confused parents wandering around.




DAD

It sure as hell had me scratching my lil' head.

But it was comics, so's I liked it!!!

...but I sure as hell was confused by those Archie-targeted religion and drug and alcohol comics! I thought comics were my way OUT of "growing up"! Thats what I use them for nowadays!




DAD

How did Steve know?



frank :-{>

...what do you think mid-fifties consumers thought of this cover on the spinner rack?



DAD

Well, if they were anything like me, their thoughts would've been "Holy Crap! I have GOT to have that comic-book!"



frank :-{>

Killjoy is possibly my all-time favorite comics backup feature.

I discovered Killjoy in E-Man, but did he not also occur elsewhere? Walking through the center of Danvers, alone, six years old, completely aghast when The Flame begs Killjoy to let her burn him up. And then she WAILS because he "unfairly" WON'T LET HER BURN HIM UP!?!

I think it took me fifteen years to wrap my mind around KILLJOY.

Hooray for the Ditkoverse! My first visit, and Killjoy was waiting for me!

>> edited to change "my mond" to "my mind." Ironically, I rarely change my mind.<<