History TakeOurWordForIt / ComicBooks

** In a [[UsefulNotes/TheBronzeAgeOfComicBooks 1970s]] issue of ''ComicBook/GreenLantern'', GL and ComicBook/GreenArrow meet "The Most Beautiful Woman in The Universe". However, we never get to see her face. The artist probably assumed drawing someone ''that'' beautiful was beyond his skills. Green Arrow refused to look at her face, claiming it might ruin every other woman for him, and make him give up [[TheCasanova give up his preferred lifestyle]]. GL didn't have that problem, though. This is essentially a distaff version of Downwind Johnson, pal of the title character in the ''Smilin' Jack'' comic strip.

* ''ComicBook/TheSandman1989'': When Death holds a speech at [[spoiler:Morpheus's funeral]], the only thing we're told is that "She gives you peace. She gives you meaning."

* Done in the more-than-a-little-terrible ''ComicBook/MarvelVersusDC'' issue in which ComicBook/{{Wolverine}} and [[Characters/DCComicsLobo Lobo]] allegedly have a fight. Ultimately, the fight is decided behind the counter, since no professional artist could possibly have rendered a realistic picture of Wolverine (''without'' his adamantium at the time) dealing damage to someone who is nearly as strong and fast as ComicBook/{{Superman}} and armed with an afterlife contract that makes him immortal. {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d in a later issue, in which it is revealed that Professor X had actually paid Lobo to lose the fight, which, frankly, makes sense for the character.

** ''ComicBook/IdentityCrisis'' features a ''whole page'' of captions describing how awesomely beautiful and moving ComicBook/WonderWoman's speech at [[spoiler:Sue]]'s funeral is.

Characters insisting you [[TakeOurWordForIt take their word for it]] in comic books.

* We almost never see Doctor Doom's face. Any time anyone else sees it, he's facing away from the reader. The person seeing him isn't, and always reacts with horror. By now, it's clear they can never show us Doom's face: nothing could do all those years of horrified reactions justice. Later writers upped the mystique (and the irony) by saying the ''original'' scar was nothing much, but he was so desperate to hide it, he put on his mask while it was still red hot, and ''that's'' what created the visage that horrifies everyone. [[WordOfGod Jack Kirby]] intended Doom to [[http://thumbsnap.com/v/8WAkWgTQ.jpg look like this]], his normal, unscarred face ''and'' a burned mass of scar tissue is seen in the ''ComicBook/SecretWars1984'' miniseries, and there's an alternate-continuity Doom [[AC:[[RecycledInSpace IN THE 17TH CENTURY!]]]] in ''''ComicBook/Marvel1602'': Fantastick Four'' who takes off his mask exactly once.
* It has been frequently stated in Marvel Comics that both [[Comicbook/TheMightyThor Thor]] and [[Comicbook/TheIncredibleHercules Hercules]] are complete "equals" in both strength and ability. While they are certainly equals in physical might, the rest is kind of head-tilting. Hercules's other abilities come from mastery of various martial arts, numerous weapons, and cheating when he needs to. Thor has the mastery of other forms of combat alongside FlyingBrick powers and a massive case of the SuperpowerLottery thanks to his hammer, which at its best is a borderline RealityWarper. How exactly Hercules is supposed to "equal" that when both are going all out is debatable, but they're frequently billed as equals.
* ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'': An early issue has Liz Allen and Betty Brant, competing over Peter's affections, visiting his house. He isn't home (being busy with superheroics), but ComicBook/MaryJaneWatson, who Aunt May is trying to set Peter up with, is waiting for him there. Her face is obscured by a plant, but both Betty and Liz are shocked by how attractive she is and storm off, figuring that if Peter is friends with her they have no chance with him. Notably, this was Mary Jane's first appearance ''ever'' before she fully made her debut in issue #43 and her face was finally shown.
* Jack Hawksmoor of ''ComicBook/TheAuthority'' possesses genitals surgically enhanced by time aliens from the far future, weird enough to make a seasoned Secret Service agent vomit uncontrollably at the sight of them. This apparently didn't stop the Engineer from having sex multiple times with him though.
* Done in ''ComicBook/TheSandman'', where Death holds a speech at [[spoiler:Morpheus's funeral]]. The only thing we're told is that "She gives you peace. She gives you meaning."
* Done in the more-than-a-little-terrible ''Marvel vs. DC'', in which Wolverine and Lobo allegedly have a fight. Ultimately, the fight is decided behind the counter, since no professional artist could possibly have rendered a realistic picture of Wolverine (without his adamantium at the time, I remind you) dealing damage to someone who is nearly as strong and fast as Superman and armed with an afterlife contract that makes him immortal. Lampshaded in a later issue, in which it is revealed that Professor X had actually paid Lobo to lose the fight, which, frankly, makes sense for the character.
* In a [[UsefulNotes/TheBronzeAgeOfComicBooks 1970s]] issue of ''ComicBook/GreenLantern'', GL and ComicBook/GreenArrow meet "The Most Beautiful Woman in The Universe". However, we never get to see her face. The artist probably assumed drawing someone ''that'' beautiful was beyond his skills. Green Arrow refused to look at her face, claiming it might ruin every other woman for him, and make him give up [[TheCasanova give up his preferred lifestyle]]. GL didn't have that problem, though. This is essentially a distaff version of Downwind Johnson, pal of the title character in the Smilin' Jack comic strip.
* ComicBook/{{Deadpool}} was once hired to assassinate someone who spread a rumor about a classmate in high school years ago, a rumor so ''vicious'' and ''appalling'' that it destroyed her life forever. This was so vile that even ''Bullseye'' [[EvenEvilHasStandards was disgusted by it.]] An unfortunate bystander is shocked that a man should die for this, but once Deadpool whispers the rumor to him changes his mind and even agrees to give the merc a head start before calling the cops on him.
* In ''ComicBook/{{Excalibur}}'', Rachel Summers (Phoenix) gets out from a party, with a gentleman, Nigel, asking what he said to piss her off. She [[MindOverMatter transforms his clothing into tar and feathers]]. The Captain Britain reprimands her. She shows, telepathically, what the "gentleman" thought. The next second, all the group is needed to hold the Captain so he doesn't beat the shit out of Nigel.
* ''ComicBook/{{Preacher}}'', despite all its goriness, does a perfectly standard ReactionShot when showing (the back of) a photo of someone who attempted suicide with a shotgun and lived. And then, being Preacher, you turn the page and there is "Arseface."
* In the [[ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse Scrooge McDuck]] story ''The Treasury of Croesus'' by Creator/DonRosa, the first page shows the end of "Magica de Spell's most complex and bizarre scheme yet". The only things shown include magical explosions and foam coming out the windows of the money bin, a pig in a Creator/GrouchoMarx disguise, a lizard with its tail tied to the tail of a vulture with a party hat... and Magica, wearing a [[HornyVikings Viking helmet]], an apron, a thick glove on one hand, carrying a thin wooden mallet in the other, an ice skate on one foot and a roller skate on the other, shouting "Curses! Foiled Again!"
* ComicBook/SquirrelGirl has defeated some of the most powerful villains in the Marvel Universe, including Thanos, Galactus, Fin-Fang-Foom, Deadpool (twice), and Terrax; however, this Trope applies to most of them, because all except her battle with Doctor Doom have occurred off-panel.
* The stink of Tona, the dog of Creator/DoriSeda. Of course, smells are especially difficult.

* In the story "A Strange Undertaking" from the [[Creator/ECComics EC comic]] ''The Haunt of Fear'', which involved vengeful corpses, they didn't mention what said corpses actually ''did''. In the final panel, the narrator said to imagine the worst thing the reader could think of, and ''that'' would be what had happened.
* ''ComicBook/IdentityCrisis'' features a ''whole page'' of captions describing how awesomely beautiful and moving Franchise/WonderWoman's speech at [[spoiler: Sue]]'s funeral is.
* One story of ''ComicBook/{{Iznogoud}}'' had him meeting a woman who was reportedly so ugly that anyone who saw her face froze into a block of ice. Luckily, she wore a veil. She was never shown from the front while the veil was off, only the terrified expression of people when they froze. Iznogoud tried to make her show her face to the Caliph but (as always) he ended up frozen himself. The story ends with the woman starting to remove her veil toward the "camera", [[BreakingTheFourthWall to satisfy the reader's curiosity]], but instead of the next panel we see a note by the editor that when they visited the comic's artist to get the pages they received "a very cold welcome".
* ''ComicBook/BatmanBlackAndWhite'':
** In "The Riddle", the MacGuffin is a document reputed to contain Creator/LewisCarroll's one true punchline to the OrphanedSetup Raven Riddle from ''Literature/AlicesAdventuresInWonderland''. When the villain gets his hands on the document, he reads it, laughs, and says, "Brilliant! No wonder he never published this!" The punchline itself is not revealed to the audience.
** The backstory of "The Black and White Bandit" revolves around a painting that's hailed as a masterpiece with sublime use of colors. It would be impossible to show the painting in its full glory in a DeliberatelyMonochrome story with art that leans toward the cartoony end of the realism scale, and no attempt is made to do so. Mostly we see reaction shots of people looking at it, and in one panel it's visible in the background and only rendered as an undetailed rectangle.

* We almost never see Doctor Doom's face. Any time anyone else sees it, he's facing away from the reader. The person seeing him isn't, and always reacts with horror. By now, it's clear they can never show us Doom's face: nothing could do all those years of horrified reactions justice. Later writers upped the mystique (and the irony) by saying the ''original'' scar was nothing much, but he was so desperate to hide it, he put on his mask while it was still red hot, and ''that's'' what created the visage that horrifies everyone. [[WordOfGod Jack Kirby]] intended Doom to [[http://thumbsnap.com/v/8WAkWgTQ.jpg look like this]], his normal, unscarred face ''and'' a burned mass of scar tissue is seen in the ''ComicBook/SecretWars'' miniseries, and there's an alternate-continuity Doom [[AC:[[RecycledInSpace IN THE 17TH CENTURY!]]]] in ''''ComicBook/Marvel1602'': Fantastick Four'' who takes off his mask exactly once.