Polite Dissent

This PSA comes from various April 1965 issues of DC comics and asks what you would do if you saw a hit and run driver.

A good question, but sadly DC left off the part of the story where Ed and Joe are found shot execution style in the back of an alley. Or maybe that’s the Ed Brubaker version of this PSA.
The John Ostrander version would feature the injured man — or his wife — swearing vengeance and hunting down the hit and run driver.

The Chris Claremont version would be full of dialogue and tie into the previous six years worth of PSAs.

The Geoff Johns version would feature the return of an obscure Silver Age character — and lots of dismemberments and decapitations.

Judd Winick would somehow manage to fit a lecture about tolerance into the PSA, before killing off a female character.

Mark Millar’s version would consist mainly of set pieces with a slight amount of exposition and plot in between.

Brian Bendis’s version would take at least sixteen pages. “Ed” “Yeah?” “Hey, Ed” “Yeah what, Joe?” “Didja – didja see that?” “The car?” “Yeah, the car” “What about it?” “Did it-” “Yeah, it did” “You sure?” “Yeah.” By the time they finished their conversation, the victim would be dead and the driver across the state line.

And of course, there’s the Kevin Smith version, which would end abruptly after 2 panels with the rest of the page left blank.

As always, the PSA (the original version) was written by Jack Schiff. Art is by frequent PSA collaborator Sheldon Moldoff.