Scott and Dan hit up the comics racks from 51 years ago… This week for RETRO HOT PICKS, Scott and I are selecting comics that came out the week of Sept. 2, 1975. Last time for RETRO HOT PICKS, it was the week of Aug. 26, 1981. Click here to check it out. (Keep in mind that comics came out on multiple days, so these are the issues that went on sale between Aug. 30 and Sept. 5.) So, let’s set the scene: On the morning of Sept. 5, a 26-year-old woman in Sacramento, California, dressed herself in a red robe and headdress and armed herself with a Colt M1911 .45-caliber semi-automatic pistol, determined to confront President Gerald Ford about the plight of the California redwoods. As one does. About 10 a.m., the woman, Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme, a deeply devoted member of the Manson family, got to within three feet of the president as he walked through a crowd near the State Capitol, aimed at his chest, and pulled the trigger. Aaaaaand, nothing happened. Fromme failed to slide a cartridge into the chamber, and was quickly subdued, pushed up against (ironically) a tree, and arrested. “Oh, shit, it didn’t go off; it didn’t go off,” Fromme said, according to the Secret Service agent who corralled her. Fromme was one of Manson’s earliest and most fanatical followers, though she was not involved in 1969’s Tate-LaBianca murders. (She was evidently given her nickname by George Spahn, the owner of the dilapidated former movie ranch outside Los Angeles where the Family lived, because that was the sound she made when the addled, blind old dude ran his hand up her thigh.) Even though the pistol didn’t fire, she was brought up on federal charges of attempting to assassinate the president. She claimed, “I was not determined to kill the guy” — Fromme later said she popped the cartridge from the chamber on purpose — but refused to cooperate with her own defense. When, however, the prosecutor recommended she receive heavy punishment because she was “full of hate and violence,” she showed off her aim by throwing an apple at him, hitting him in the face and knocking off his glasses. Fromme would ultimately be sentenced to life in prison and serve 34 years before, remarkably, being released on parole. Though she has granted at least...