At his best, Roy Raymond could stand shoulder to shoulder with Sherlock Holmes when it came to deductive prowess and intuitive logic - he might manage to uncover the first thread of trickery by noting the presence of contact lenses on a subject who has no reason to need them, which in turn, would lead to his deduction that a two-way mirror must be hidden near by, which would prompt the discovery of a broken watch, which would be the final clue required for Raymond to announce that he has all the evidence he needs to unravel this mystery and expose the sham he's been subjected to.  At his worst however, we'd get a seemingly impossible puzzle thrown at us only to have Raymond's brilliant line of reasoning lead to the conclusion "You must be... an alien from the fourth dimension!"  But in his element, Raymond was a reminder that the people writing these tales were highly educated writers brought up on the finest education a literate mind could supply itself with and since that element was the medium of comics, there was no shortage of those fun little 'Believe it or Not' tidbits you'd often find in stories of the time.  The 'Impossible, But True' title of his show referenced not so much the main event, but the opening little wonders of the worlds discovered by Raymond on his trips around the globe.  "Here we see a fish which emits sonar like a bat!  A pair of 3-D glasses first used during the Renaissance!  A tree which grows upside down!"  Mixed with the 'Anything might happen on live TV' aura of television, these elements made for gripping reading. 

I only hope he doesn't come back - God only knows what someone like Geoff Johns would do to him.