Manic Monday--Just be Thankful You Didn't Sneeze!!

If you had a time machine, and you were taking a break from dashing back to buy up freshly-printed copies of Action Comics #1 and Detective Comics #27, and you decided to stop in 1947 to take in a movie...for God's sake don't cough!!!!!

Oh, you rude bastard...how can you not know that:

Seriously...if you dare to cough, these olde tyme bearded dudes are going to mock you with their rapier wit:

So to hell with you, you filthy, coughing son of a bitch!! Go back to your far flung future, and stop offending we 1947 folk with your disgusting normal bodily functions!! If only there was some cure for the scourge you bring upon us...

...Oh. It was just an ad for cough drops. OK.

Blatant attempt to stigmatize coughers appeared in Wonder Comics #11 (1947)