Scott and Dan hit up the comics racks from 51 years ago — again… This week for RETRO HOT PICKS, Scott and I are selecting comics that came out the week of Sept. 23, 1975 — the second time this month we’ve visited that year. Why? It’ll become obvious in a second. Last time for RETRO HOT PICKS, it was the week of Sept. 16, 1978. 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 Sept. 20 and Sept. 26.) So, let’s set the scene: Two and a half weeks after deranged Manson acolyte Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme tried to assassinate President Ford in Sacramento, another delusional woman, Sara Jane Moore, tried do the same in San Francisco — and almost succeeded. On Sept. 22, around 3:30 p.m., Moore was about 40 feet away from the president as he left the St. Francis Hotel in Union Square and walked to his limo. The 45-year-old fired a shot from her .38 Special and missed Ford’s head by about five inches, hitting a doorway and sending a bullet fragment into the groin of a bystander, who was superficially wounded. (Fromme got to within three feet, but there was no bullet in the chamber when she pulled the trigger.) A 33-year-old man named Oliver Sipple, a disabled former Marine, dove at Moore and grabbed her arm before she could fire a second time. Cops had actually seized a handgun and bullets from Moore the day before, after she evidently suggested she wanted to assassinate Ford. She was, however, able to scramble to get a new one that morning. Moore was arrested at the scene, while her 9-year-old son was waiting for her to pick him up at school. She wasn’t a Manson follower but she harbored a similarly apocalyptic vision: Her motive, she later said, was to launch a violent revolution that would overthrow the U.S. government because of how it handled the Vietnam War. (Manson plotted the Tate-LaBianca murders to foment a race war.) Adding another bizarre wrinkle to an already twisted story, Moore was an FBI informant. Obsessed with Patty Hearst, the newspaper heiress who’d been kidnapped by, then joined, the terrorist Symbionese Liberation Army, Moore volunteered at People in Need, a charitable organization set up...