This was perhaps the first "intellectualisation" of comics to appear in a DC publication. Not surprisingly, it's from one of DC's most Marvel-esque titles of that era, The Doom Patrol, in the May 1967 issue (#111) of the series. What do you think of Mr Wood's attempt at a serious dissertation? (Click to enlarge)

Good thing that comic book writers/editors making mistakes with regard to continuity doesn't also result in multi-million dollar missiles going off course.

There would be smoking craters all over the free world

I like this article/essay. It is a bit defensive (comics don't suck, and I'll mathematically prove why), but a nice intellectual exercise nevertheless. Particularily in a pre-'Understanding Comics' world.

That's a pretty good essay, really. And it builds upon a profound point about Euclidean geometry. The point is the same for all mathematics, which are not "true" in the sense that most laypersons think. The "rules" for a given comic book are not restrictions handed down from on high -- the idea of a "rule" is a clumsy pejorative for expression that the comic book should be self-consistent.