How Satan Became A Huge Baseball Fan, And Other Tales From DC Comics' Strange Sports Stories

Jack DickeyJack Dickey|published: Mon 30th May, 14:36 2011

It's Memorial Day here in the States. The sultry weather makes my mind turn to stupidly awesome comic books, namely DC Comics' Strange Sports Stories, a short-lived 1973 anthology about the unfathomable cosmic dangers inherent in physical activity.


In Strange Sports Stories, Satan loved baseball and the history of the human race depended on knocking a high school basketball team down a peg. Here are 10 marvelously screwball panels from this six-issue Silver Age series. [ io9]

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