A blog about comic books, and enjoying the stories, characters and creators of them...and occasionally subjects that relate to comic books as well.
Remembering artist Jim Mooney on his birthday (August 13, 1919 - March 30, 2008) with a couple of covers with punch, as Robin delivers the haymaker in Star Spangled Comics #80 (May, 1948) and gets one in Star Spangled Comics #82 (July, 1948).
Alien menaces were all over the pre-hero Marvel Universe, as the hapless humans of Earth had to deal with Zarkorr from Tales of Suspense #35 (November, 1962) and Haag (name misspelled on the cover as Hagg) from Tales of Suspense #37 (January, 1963) in these two covers by Jack Kirby .
Celebrating the birthday of artist Rick Leonardi (August 9, 1957) with his covers to the first Vision and Scarlet Witc h mini-series... ...which resulted in a big revelation about Wanda's dad! Vision and the Scarlet Witch #1 and #2 (November and December, 1982) . Vision and the Scarlet Witch #3 and #4 (January and February, 1983) .
Celebrating the birthday of artist Ed Hannigan (August 6, 1951) with his covers for the second Annuals for the Question and Green Arrow from July, 1989, focusing on another team up of these streetwise heroes.
Here, a couple of random Amazing Adventures , with covers by Jack Kirby , ( #3 and #4 , August and September, 1961), featuring humans dealing with a prehistoric age with dinosaurs and cavemen, and a village dealing with robotic invaders.
Celebrating National Sisters Day with Wonder Woman and Troia. Though Diana and Donna are not quite real sisters, they are pretty close....and it gives an opportunity to show off these Wonder Woman covers by George Perez from #47 and #48 (October and November, 1990), facing Circe's beastiamorphs.
A couple of Journey Into Mystery ( #77 and #78 , February and March, 1962) with covers by Jack Kirby , with a slightly supernatural bent, as Marvel's super heroes were just starting to settle on the line.
Two covers by Jack Kirby featuring the Two Gun Kid, facing off against some fantastic villains in the 19th Century...The Fox in Two Gun Kid #67 (January, 1964) and the Purple Phantom in Two Gun Kid #68 (March, 1964).
Celebrating artist Chris Sprouse on his birthday (July 30, 1966) with a couple of classics... Spider-Man Classics, that is ( #12 and #13 , March and April, 1994)...featuring a lengthy early battle between Spider-Man and Doctor Octopus.
Remembering artist Dick Sprang on his birthday (July 28, 1915 - May 10, 2000) with a couple of covers with the Dynamic Duo going medieval... Detective Comics #89 (July, 1944) featuring the Cavalier, and Batman #32 (December-January, 1945/1946), as Batman and Robin go back in time to meet the Three Muskateers.
Celebrating the birthday of artist Trevor Von Eeden (July 24, 1959) with a couple of his Black Lightning covers ( #4 and #5 , September and November, 1977), with Superman and Jimmy Olsen joining in, to fight the Cyclotronic Man.
Remembering artist Dick Giordano on his birthday (July 20, 1932 - March 27, 2010) with a couple of his covers to the Justice League of America ( #118 and #119 , May and June, 1975), wherein, the JLA has to deal with an alien invasion.
Celebrating the birthday of artist Phil Noto (July 18, 1971) with a couple of his painted covers for Wonder Woman (issues #198 and #199 , January and February, 2004), where Diana is in charge!
Something a little different this time around...as the Super-Blog Team-Up gave total freedom to us with just four rather generic categories, and a pick from each one of us...and never was there a more difficult assignment...doing what I think as opposed to just facts or neat things encountered on the way... ...still, here...we...go! Classic Pick: One covered before, but worth some love here...…
There were two Pow Wow Smith's running around at DC. The first was the sheriff in Detective Comics , but later, DC introduced his ancestor, Ohiyesa "Pow-Wow" Smith, who fought criminals in the wild west of the 19th Century (and starting in Western Comics #44 (March-April, 1954)), with the 20th Century having one adventure in Western Comics #43 (January-February, 1954). Here are a few of his great…
Celebrating the birthday of artist Phil Jimenez (July 12, 1970) with the last two covers to Guy Gardner: Warrior ( #43 and #44 , June and July, 1996), which was the beginning of the end for Guy's alien inspired powers.
Remembering artist Murphy Anderson on his birthday (July 9, 1926 - October 22, 2015) with a pair of Hawkman covers.... #9 (August-September, 1965), featuring a team up with the Atom, and #18 (February-March, 1967), featuring a team up with Adam Strange.
Remembering artist Irwin Hasen on his birthday (July 8, 1918 - March 13, 2015) with a couple of his covers for All-American Comics ( #41 and #45 , August and December, 1942), featuring the original Green Lantern working with Doiby Dickles (who happened to have a Green Lantern costume of his own...).
Celebrating the birthday of artist/writer John Byrne (July 6, 1950), here with two of his more famous covers featuring Doctor Doom....from Super-Villain Team-Up #14 (October, 1977) and Fantastic Four #238 (January, 1982). If there was one thing that John Byrne could do, it was make Doctor Doom a regal villain!
Celebrating National Bikini Day with Betty and Me ( #15 and #17 , August and October, 1968), as Betty Cooper deals with Archie, and then Archie and Veronica...and skipping the infamous cover that fits between these two!
A happy 4th Of July to everyone, and a happy 250th to the United States of America. Here, to celebrate....Superman, from the Limited Collectors' Edition #C-47 (August-September, 1976; though the book features Tomahawk) and Captain America, from the Marvel Treasury Special Featuring Captain America's Bicentennial Battles #1 (September, 1976).
As sales of Western titles at DC started to fade, DC started to punch up the titles... ...and, with the Johnny Thunder feature in All-Star Western , added a femme fatale for him to face... ...Madame .44! Six-Gun Showdown With Madame .44 Introduced in All-Star Western #117 (February-March, 1961) by Gardner Fox , Gil Kane and Joe Giella , Madame .44 rode into Mesa City looking for trouble, and found…
Celebrating artist Mike McKone on his birthday (June 30, 1969) with his L.E.G.I.O.N. Annual covers ( #2 from October, 1991 and #3 from October, 1992) where Lobo got involved in the Armageddon 2001 and Eclipso: The Darkness Within crossovers....much to the chagrin of his teammates.
Celebrating artist Bo Hampton on his birthday (June 29, 1954) with the Book of Shadows , a two issue mini-series from Image from April and May, 2006, featuring a frightened girl named Annie, who has to work with the goddess of blood and death to prevent an army of shape-shifting devils, dragons and other mythological creatures from plunging the Earth back into the dark ages....
Celebrating the birthday of writer/artist Dan Jurgens (June 27, 1959) with the Teen Titans, but with a Then and Now twist... ...or rather, the grown up version of the Teen Titans (Nightwing/Robin, Kid Flash/Flash, Tempest/Aqualad and Arsenal/Speedy) as featured in a run in the 1990s (and Wonder Girl/Troia was busy at this time in Wonder Woman). Teen Titans #12 and #13 (September and October, 1997)…