Your Norse god wall art for the day

Nice work, JPS!

This is a really inefficient way to threaten someone.

Via.

Four young men reading, 1942

I love this photo. 

The Scales of Justice!

Did you know that Caesar loved Twinkies?

I learned it from Captain America! See, there was this time warp and . . . oh, just read it.

• "These creatures are truly advanced. They have created these delicious golden cakes. Look, Caesar, they have CREAMED FILLING inside."
• "Delightful."

Marvel Team-Up ad, 1978.

"Yes Robin, I've become a human 'fish'!"

The interesting book Comics: Between the Panels has a look at amusing comic book covers from yesteryear. For instance, this 1958 issue of Batman #118 (Merman Batman!) provides a chuckle.

But if you want some REAL comic fun, than More Fun Comics (#54, 1940) is for you.

Yeesh. 

Crime comics provide smirks of a more pained variety, to wit, this snappy repartee from Headline Comics (#29, 1948).

"Sorry fella! We're hired killers! In our business, we don't make lasting friendships!"

Two more increasingly reprehensible examples after the break.

Archie meets KISS?

Consider my mind blown. Ooh, there's an alternate cover!

Well THAT'S a bit more sinister! (Via.)