Tuesday, September 8, 2026

Star Trek At 60

Celebrating Star Trek at 60!

For the 60th Anniversary of the airing of the first episode of Star Trek, two DC comics that reached a 60th issue.

Star Trek #60 (June, 1994) with a cover by Jerome Moore, and story by Howard Weinstein and Carlos Garzon, is the conclusion of a three part story featuring Chekov.

Star Trek: The Next Generation #60 (June, 1994) with a cover by Jason Palmer and David Williams, and story by Michael Jan Friedman and Pablo Marcus, has the Enterprise-D crew searching for a missing starship crew on a planet, while Picard deals with an alien force in orbit.

Over the years, have had a few Star Trek articles, and here are a few of the best!

Leonard Nimoy's Spock  

William Shatner's Kirk

Ricardo Montalban's Khan

The first and last mission of Kirk's five years on the Enterprise

A Next Generation/Deep Space Nine crossover

The Mirror Mirror universe

...all to go, boldly, where no man has gone before!



Sunday, September 6, 2026

Celebrating Artist Mike Zeck

Celebrating the birthday of artist Mike Zeck (September 6, 1949) with a couple of his Deathstroke the Terminator covers (#10 and #11, May and June, 1992) featuring the new Vigilante (Pat Trayce), who took over the identity after the death of Adrian Chase.


Friday, September 4, 2026

Celebrating Artist Scott Shaw!

Celebrating the birthday of artist Scott Shaw! (September 4, 1951) with a couple of issues of Captain Carrot and his Amazing Zoo Crew (#14 and #15), which features the Captain and his crew (from Earth-C) against Super-Squirrel and his Just'A Lotta Animals from the lost time when super powered animals and multiple Earths were all the rage!

Wednesday, September 2, 2026

Celebrating Artist Walt Simonson

Celebrating the birthday of artist Walt Simonson (September 2, 1946) with a batch of his covers featuring the New Gods (from #12 to #15 of the series)...

...before the series became Jack Kirby's Fourth World (and before he took over the series with a focus on Orion after that).




New Gods #12 and #13 (November and December, 1996)

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New Gods #14 and #15 (January and February, 1997)

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Tuesday, September 1, 2026

Sorcery In Warlord

The land of Skartaris was a dangerous one...a land of ancient Atlantean technology, but also one of magic.  

Travis Morgan, the Warlord, fought these menaces with a sword and a gun (under covers by Mike Grell), but it took his daughter, Jennifer, who found a way into this land (in Warlord #38, October, 1980)...but later returned (Warlord #53, January, 1982), and learned sorcery from Deimos' assistant, Ashiya, to become an ally versed in magic.



Monday, August 31, 2026

Kirby Deadman

Kirby had some strange ideas when he worked for DC in the 1970s, and fewer were odder than his hippie inspired group of the Forever People....until, by editorial edict, he added Deadman (Boston Brand) to the mix (reintroducing the idea of Deadman hunting for his killer, after he had found him in Strange Adventures).  Deadman even got a robot body to inhabit in Forever People #9 and #10 (June-July and August-September, 1972).

Friday, August 28, 2026

Remembering Jack Kirby

Remembering the King, Jack Kirby, on his birthday (August 28, 1917 - February 6, 1994) with a couple of his Captain America covers, with Cap reflecting on his life in the 1940s and the 1960s.  (Issues #107 and #112 from November, 1968 and April, 1969).