Remembering Artist Gil Kane

Remembering artist Gil Kane on his birthday (April 6, 1926 - January 31, 2000) with a special Showcase on two of his most fondly remembered characters...Green Lantern and the Atom....with their Showcase covers!

Green Lantern Hal Jordan began his career in Showcase #22 (September-October, 1959), with the Atom Ray Palmer following with Showcase #34 (September-October, 1961)....and comics were never the same!

Showcase #23 and #24 (November-December, 1959 and January-February 1960)

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Showcase #35 and #36 (November-December, 1961 and January-February, 1962)

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Celebrating Artist Art Adams

Celebrating artist Art Adams on his birthday (April 5, 1963) with the covers to his 6 issue limited series featuring Longshot, an alien from another dimension who ended up in ours, without his memory but with the power of luck....

....which allowed him to evade Mojo (ruler of the land he escaped from) and Spiral (Mojo's assassin) with the help of Ricochet Rita (Rita Wayword) for a while (and later, hook up with the X-Men).

Longshot #1 and #2 (September and October, 1985)

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Longshot #3 and #4 (November and December, 1985)

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Longshot #5 and #6 (January and February, 1986)

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Remembering Artist Joe Orlando

Remembering artist Joe Orlando on his birthday (April 4, 1927 - December 23, 1998).  Though known more for his editing and work on horror comics, Joe worked on humor comics as well, handling the first 13 issues of Swing With Scooter...the adventures of an English singer who came to America to escape his fame, but wasn't that successful.

Scooter had a group of followers, including redhead Cynthia, brunette Penny, blond Cookie, friendly Sylvester, angry Malibu and hipster Kenny who served to lead him into all sorts of scrapes (at least until issue #14, where the mag turned into more of an Archie Comics clone).

Swing With Scooter #1 and #2 (June-July and August-September, 1966) 

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Swing With Scooter #3 and #4 (October-November, 1966 and December-January, 1966/1967) 

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Swing With Scooter #5 and #6 (February-March and April-May, 1967) 

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Swing With Scooter #7 and #8 (June-July and August-September, 1967) 

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Swing With Scooter #9 and #10 (October-November, 1967 and December-January 1967/1968) 

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Swing With Scooter #11 and #12 (February-March and April-May, 1968)

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Swing With Scooter #13  (June-July, 1968)

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Celebrating Artist Todd Nauck

Celebrating artist Todd Nauck (April 2, 1971) on his birthday with a few special covers to Young Justice, featuring the team.

The team started out with Robin, Superboy and Impulse (under the watchful eye of Red Tornado)...grew to add Secret, Wonder Girl and Arrowette...and then even Empress, Slobo and the Ray (and so many more!).

Young Justice #1 and #18 (September, 1998 and March, 2000)

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Young Justice #21 and Dark Crisis: Young Justice #1 (July, 2000 and August, 2022)

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Mad April Fools

What better way to celebrate April Fool's Day than with the biggest fool of all...Alfred E. Newman!

Here, from Mad Magazine #39 (May, 1958) with a cover painting by C.C. Beall Jr. and Mad Magazine #114 (October, 1967) with Alfred playing the fool for a cover by Norman Mingo.