Smallville Mailsack: How Things Have Changed

No, I don't mean how we'd be a little more skittish today about using the word "sack" in a letters page header, I mean stuff like this:
Editor has a choice: Either admit the teacher soiled her white gloves with coal soot, OR admit she eventually died of cancer from wearing asbestos garments lest the kids at home start asking for asbestos for Christmas.

May just have made the wrong one.

(Letters page from Superboy #77, Dec. 1959)

Comments

JDJarvis said…
Nice to see comics fans were ridiculously picky in 1959 also.
May 3, 2016 at 2:19 PM
Unknown said…
And when they reran the story, the gloves were colored black.
May 6, 2016 at 1:32 AM
Siskoid said…
GASP! Historical white-washing!!! (err you know what I mean)

What did they change the dialog to?
May 6, 2016 at 7:25 AM
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