Number 398


King Faraday's suicide bombers


Suicide bombers...a terrorist religious leader. Hmmm. Sounds contemporary, but in fact this King Faraday story is from DC's Danger Trail #4, 1951. The closest reference at the time to terrorist martyrs was the Japanese kamikazi pilots of WWII, so that similarity is invoked in the story. There's no clue in the story as to whether the martyrs were promised virgins in heaven after they had blown themselves to atoms.

If you believe our friends at Grand Comics Database the story is written by Robert Kanigher, and drawn by Carmine Infantino and Joe Giella.