In the intro to last night’s post on Marinus van der Lubbe (the Dutch council communist who was executed by the Nazis for allegedly setting fire to the Reichstag in 1933), I mentioned that there had been a reference to Mr. Van der Lubbe in an old Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers strip, but that I was unable to find my copy of it.

A reader whose collection includes that very strip (from about 1970) was kind enough to dig it out and send me a photo of it. I’ve excerpted the last eight panels below. The relevant quote is in the penultimate panel:

Yesterday I quoted it as “Long live the Marinus van der Lubbe International Firebombing Society!” It looks like I remembered it correctly…