History KarmaHoudini / ComicBooks

* In Creator/WillEisner's graphic novel, ''ComicBook/AContractWithGod'', one of the stories focuses on the super of the tenant where the stories take place/centered around. While the super is a middle-aged, balding man with a somewhat bad attitude and a possibly unfriendly dog, he is played in a horrible con. While in his room (the walls of which are covered with pornographic pinups), the niece of one of his tenants enters his room, and offers to show him her panties for a nickel (the setting is in the 1950's) and asks if she can give the dog a treat. While the super's back is turned, the girl (who is twelve years old!) grabs his cashbox and poisons his dog to death. When the super catches up with the girl, she screams rape and everyone sees and the tenants call the police. When the police come for the super, he kills himself and everyone calls him a creep. The last scene we see is the girl counting the money she just stole, not a look of remorse on her face. It's a great story and everything and was probably written to spite UsefulNotes/TheComicsCode, but still.

* ''Shock [=SuspenStories=]'' ran a one-off strip in which a KarmaHoudini uses his influence as a newspaper reporter to blackmail people all over town. The story hints throughout at LaserGuidedKarma for the protagonist (this being a staple of the comic and similar titles published by EC) and then ends abruptly with him getting away with murder.