Just because we need an occasional reminder that not every gruesome death in comics is a result of modern-day Johnsian excesses:
You gotta love the tongue hanging out...and no, that wasn't just a symbolic splash-page flourish. Check out the actual story panel:
Who was this guy?
Damn those fiendish Golden Age brain diseases!!
Not content with killing his widowed half-sister, Jed decides to off his nephew:
Don't worry, little Jimmy was saved by apparent super-hero The Hangman. Who manages to dispense some painfully ironic justice to Uncle Jed:
SPWAT indeed. The Golden Age was no picnic, especially in Liberty Comics #10 (1945ish).
You gotta love the tongue hanging out...and no, that wasn't just a symbolic splash-page flourish. Check out the actual story panel:
Who was this guy?
Damn those fiendish Golden Age brain diseases!!Not content with killing his widowed half-sister, Jed decides to off his nephew:
Don't worry, little Jimmy was saved by apparent super-hero The Hangman. Who manages to dispense some painfully ironic justice to Uncle Jed:
SPWAT indeed. The Golden Age was no picnic, especially in Liberty Comics #10 (1945ish).
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