Perhaps this is a completely inappropriate entry, but I couldn’t help but think that the recent tragedy at Wal-Mart could have been avoided if only those holiday shoppers at the Green Acres Mall had paid attention to those one-page public service ads which used to run “in cooperation with the National Social Welfare Assembly” in the pages of DC Comics.

Those ads were hokey, but I loved them anyway. Here’s a panel from “How Are Your Shopping Manners?” which could have changed the tenor of the day had it only been digested by them decades ago when they were impressionable youths.

You can check out the complete ad here, smurched from Booksteve’s Library.

I’m fairly certain that this was penciled by Carmine Infantino, and less certain that it was inked by Joe Giella … but I’m sure that one of you will show up eventually with the actual credits.

I guess I should apologize now …