Scott and Dan hit up the comics racks from 58 years ago… This week for RETRO HOT PICKS, Scott Tipton and I are selecting comics that came out the week of April 9, 1967. Last time for RETRO HOT PICKS, it was the week of April 2, 1988. Click here to check it out. (Keep in mind that comics came out on multiple days, so these are technically the comics that went on sale between April 6 and April 12.) So, let’s set the scene: On April 10, oral arguments began in the landmark Supreme Court case Loving v. Virginia, which challenged state law blocking interracial marriage. Richard Loving, a white man, and his wife Mildred Jeter Loving, who was Black, lived in Virginia but in 1958 were married in Washington, D.C., to avoid the state’s racist, deplorable “anti-miscegenation” laws. They were arrested after they returned to Virginia and were forced by a judge to leave the state. In 1963, frustrated by their inability to travel to see family in Virginia and facing financial problems and social isolation in the city, Mildred wrote to U.S. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, who referred them to the American Civil Liberties Union, which took up their case. It ultimately made its way to the Supreme Court and on June 12, the justices ruled unanimously in the Lovings’ favor, and interracial marriage would become legal across the country. On April 6, activist Bill Baird, later referred to as “the father of abortion rights,” was arrested in front of 2,500 people at a Boston University lecture, where he gave a can of spermicidal foam and a condom to a 19-year-old female student. Baird was taken off the stage by Boston police, who charged him with providing contraceptives to a minor, distributing medication without a license or a pharmacist, and “illegally exhibiting an obscene object.” Baird’s battle also went all the way to the Supreme Court, which would in 1972 rule in his favor, effectively legalizing birth control for all Americans, as well as premarital, heterosexual sex in the United States. His case was part of the foundation for such rulings as 1973’s Roe v. Wade, which legalized abortion, and 2003’s Lawrence v. Texas, which legalized gay sex between consenting adults. IN OTHER NEWS — On April 7, Israeli jet fighters shot down six Syrian MiGs in one...