THE FIRST FOUR COLOR DON RICKLES

Common wisdom holds that legendary insult comedian Don Rickles (whom I saw perform twice during his long career, once in Las Vegas at the now gone Stardust Hotel and again at Austin's Paramount Theatre)  made his first and only comic book appearances in SUPERMAN'S PAL JIMMY OLSEN #139 (July, 1971) and # 141 (September, 1971). Published by DC Comics, both issues were written and drawn by Jack "King" Kirby. The stories are wacky fun and have earned a reputation as two of craziest, oddest comic books ever published by a mainstream comics company. But hey, it was the early '70s and Kirby was in complete control of SUPERMAN'S PAL JIMMY OLSEN, THE FOREVER PEOPLE, THE NEW GODS and MISTER MIRACLE. Kirby's incredibly fertile imagination just kept spewing forth all sorts of ideas, concepts and characters, most of which worked, while some, sadly, didn't.

But regardless of how you feel about Don and his alter ego Goody, love 'em or hate 'em (me, I love 'em!), everyone knows that these two comics mark the first time that Don Rickles appeared in an American comic book. 

Not so fast you hockey puck.

Rickles actually made his first appearance in an American comic book (published by a major, mainstream publisher) eight years previously. 

First reader to correctly name this comic book won't win a damn thing.

 What, did you expect me to drop my pants and shoot a rocket?