“I’ll rip those bastards a new one, and then I’ll rip a new one in that, and then I’ll rip a new one in that, ad infinitum.”
(From the first page of “Marvel Mystery Comics” #11, 1940, looking into a hole that’s 30 pages deep.)
Detail from page 1 of “Detective Comics” #31 (the fifth Batman story), scanned from an early 1970s reprint.
From "Suspense Comics" #5, 1944. Artist uncredited.