Celebrating Artist Mike McKone

Celebrating artist Mike McKone on his birthday (June 30, 1969) with a couple of his Fantastic Four covers....Fantastic Four #527 (July, 2005, the variant cover) and Fantastic Four #537 (June, 2006), featuring the team at its highs and lows.

Celebrating Artist Don Rosa

Celebrating the birthday of artist Don Rosa (June 29, 1951) with some adventures....adventures with Uncle Scrooge, Donald Duck and Huey, Dewey and Louie from the covers of Walt Disney's Uncle Scrooge Adventures #28 and #30 (September, 1994 and January, 1995).

Lois Lane Adventures

Thinking on Superman's past, the time when he was a boy in Smallville...you wouldn't think of Lois Lane.  

Yet, oddly enough, even though Superboy's time then was more spent with Lana Lang, still Lois Lane did end up in SuperBOY's life a little bit!

How Clark Kent Met Lois Lane

In Adventure Comics #128 (May, 1948) with a cover by Win Mortimer, and story by Bill Finger, Al Wenzel and George Roussos, here is where Clark and Lois first met.  Clark had begun to write for his school newspaper, and won a contest to be a cub reporter for the Daily Planet in Metropolis for a week.  There, he met another winner, a young girl from the midwest, Lois Lane.  

The two became involved in a competition to get a story printed (and for an ice cream), and, Lois, wandering into trouble, needed to be saved by Superboy, allowing her the time to get the story, so she got two scoops!

For completeness' sake, including this cover to Adventure Comics #211 (April, 1955) by Win Mortimer, but Lois is only in this one in a dream as an adult, and one flashback to the story above.  

Lois is  also in a few Superboy issues, but....those will be tales for another day.

Superboy Meets Lois Lane!

Superboy and Lois met again in Adventure Comics #261 (June, 1959) with a story by Otto Binder and George Papp, under a Curt Swan and Stan Kaye cover.  Here, Lois comes to Camp Hiawatha, which is near Smallville, with hopes of meeting Superboy.  She ends up with Lana Lang as a roommate (who is infatuated with Superboy).  Clark is also staying at the camp on the boys' side, and comes across the girls whose lunch attracted a bear.  

Changing into Superboy, he saves the girls and talks to Lois and Lana, where Lana is convinced Superboy is one of the boys at the lake.  Lois joins with Lana, but to prevent Lana from finding out Superboy's identity.  The two have some interesting adventures, with Clark thinking fast on how to preserve his identity (including calling on Krypto).  Lois even earns an acceptance to a dance.  Lana, furious, thinks of exposing Superboy to Kryptonite to find out his identity, but decides against it.  For that, Superboy accepts her invitation to the dance too!  But, Superboy is shrewd, he ends up going with neither girl, as he saw that during their time in the forest, the two were exposed to poison ivy, so they both can't go!

From these simple beginnings, a romance blossomed, and if you want to read the stories, look to these issues for reprints!

Remembering Artist Butch Guice

Remembering artist Butch Guice on his birthday (June 27, 1961 - May 1, 2025) covers to a mini-series that featured characters he worked on (the Micronauts)...

...and some he hadn't done as much (the X-Men) with the 4 issues of X-Men and the Micronauts.

X-Men and the Micronauts #1 and #2 (January and February, 1984)

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X-Men and the Micronauts #3 and #4 (March and April, 1984)

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Remembering Artist Alex Toth

Remembering artist Alex Toth on his birthday (June 25, 1929-May 27, 2006) with a quick look at his Hot Wheels covers (Hot Wheels being based on the animated cartoon that featured cars, and the name of toy  cars still in existence today). 

Alex Toth provided interior art for the first five issues, but only 3 covers.

The series followed the adventures of the Hot Wheels Racing Club, led by Jack "Rabbit" Wheeler, and his friends, Kip Chogi, Janet Martin, Tank, Mickey and Ardeth and their automotive pursuits.

Hot Wheels #1 and #4 (March-April and September-October, 1970)

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Hot Wheels #5 (November-December, 1970)

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Remembering Artist Mike Wieringo

Remembering artist Mike Wieringo (usually signed his work as Ringo) on his birthday (June 24, 1963 - August 12, 2007) with a couple of his covers from the Robin series, featuring Tim Drake and Spoiler (Stephanie Brown).  

Robin #25 and Robin #35 (February and November, 1996)

Celebrating Artist Karl Kerschl

Celebrating the birthday of artist Karl Kerschl (June 20, 1974) with his covers featuring the group of villains calling themselves the Secret Six (after the events of Villains United, where the team was composed of Deadshot, Catman, Mad Hatter, Ragdoll, Knockout and Scandal Savage...

...and they faced villains like Dr. Psycho, Cheshire and Vandal Savage, as well as the Doom Patrol!

Secret Six #1 and #2 (July and August, 2006) 

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Secret Six #3 and #4 (September and October, 2006) 

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Secret Six #5 and #6 (December, 2006 and January, 2007) 

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Remembering Artist Wally Wood

Remembering the dynamic art of Wally Wood on his birthday (June 17, 1927 - November 3, 1981), with the four issues of Dynamo, one of the T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents (The Higher United Nations Defense Enforcement Reserves).  

Leonard Brown was a paper pusher at T.H.U.N.D.E.R., who wanted to be an agent, and agreed to wear the Thunder Belt, which gave him super strength and a dense body structure, but could only function for half an hour at a time, putting a large drain on his body.  Still, while using it he was strong and mostly invulnerable to harm....

Dynamo #1 and #2 (August and October, 1966)

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Dynamo #3 and #4 (March and June, 1967)

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Remembering Artist Neal Adams On Father's Day

Remembering artist Neal Adams on his birthday (June 15, 1941 - April 28, 2022) and also acknowledging today is Father's Day....so, here are a couple of Superboy covers featuring Superboy with his Kryptonian parents (Jor-El and Lara) and his Earth parents (Jonathan and Martha Kent), showing that Superboy does indeed need his father (and mother too!).  

Superboy #158 (July, 1969) and Superboy #161 (December, 1969)

Celebrating The United States Army

Celebrating the United States Army, who were founded on this date in 1775.

Here, under two covers by Joe Kubert (Our Army At War #112 of November, 1961 and Our Army At War #178 of March, 1967), Sgt. Rock has to decide which member of Easy Company deserves a medal...here, it is our humble opinion that all who honorably serve and have served our Armed Forces get a salute.

Happy Friday The 13th

A happy Friday the 13th to all!  

Here, a couple of issues of Friday The 13th: Bad Land, featuring Jason Voorhees and the history of Crystal Lake, presented in 2 issues March and April, 2008, with covers by Mike McKone, and interiors by Ron Marz and Mike Huddleston for the Wildstorm imprint at DC.

Remembering Artist George Perez

Remembering artist George Perez on his birthday (June 9, 1954-May 6, 2022) with a group of covers he did in his later years...

...working in the wake of the Infinite Crisis, which allowed access to some of the original Justice Society of America members, such as Superman (who now was a part of Power Girl's life again....well, the original Kal-L Superman) as the JSA dealt with the Gentleman Ghost!

JSA #82 and #83, (April and May, 2006)

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JSA #84 and #85, (June and July, 2006)

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JSA #86 and #87, (August and September, 2006)

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Celebrating Artist Daryl Banks

Celebrating the birthday of artist Daryl Banks (June 7, 1964) with a couple of his covers featuring the JLA and the Spectre, from a series called JLA/Spectre: Soul War from January and February, 2003....where the JLA has to get help from the Spectre to fight the Trans (where Spectre has to kill the JLA!).

Remembering Artist Wayne Boring

Remembering artist Wayne Boring on his birthday (June 5, 1905 - February 20, 1987) with a couple of Superman covers showing a little more of the playful nature between Superman and Lois Lane.  (Superman #27 of March-April, 1944 and Superman #36 of September-October, 1945).

Celebrating Artist Gavin Wilson

Celebrating artist Gavin Wilson on his birthday (June 3, 1965) with a selection of his covers to Sandman Mystery Theatre, featuring the Hourman.

Gavin brought his photo style to the covers of Sandman Mystery Theatre, helping to give these special stories of the early career of Wesley Dodds' alter ego an even more noir look.

Selected here, the run featuring the Hourman, as Rex Tyler was a fellow co-star of Sandman in Adventure Comics.

Sandman Mystery Theatre #29 and #30 (August and September, 1995)

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Sandman Mystery Theatre #31 and #32 (October and November, 1995)

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Remembering Artist Ruth Atkinson

Remembering writer-artist Ruth Atkinson on her birthday (June 2, 1918-June 1, 1997), who was best known as the creator of Millie the Model and co-created Patsy Walker.

Millie the Model had 143 issues, starting in 1945 and going to November, 1966, and Patsy Walker had 124 issues starting in 1945, and going to December, 1965 (with Patsy eventually becoming Hellcat in Avengers!).

Marvel Adventure Featuring Daredevil

It was a time of adventure, but not particularly new ones....

...back in the 1970s, Marvel was reprinting many of their main characters (usually in large anthologies like Marvel Tales and Marvel's Greatest Comics), but the page counts kept shrinking, so characters got spun off in their own series of reprints, such as Marvel Adventure (though for the first two issues, it was Marvel Adventures in the indicia) featuring Daredevil.

Picking up from where Marvel was reprinting Daredevil in Giant-Size Marvel Triple Action #2, these issues feature two less pages of the story than the original, and covers that look like they were colored by a blind man (appropriate, considering Matt Murdock, the star of the series was blind).  Mostly, battles with the Gladiator, Leap-Frog, Stilt-Man and the Masked Marauder, as well as Ka-Zar, all for some New York City adventures, with original covers by Gene Colan!

Marvel Adventure #1 (December, 1975) and Daredevil #22 (November, 1966)

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Marvel Adventure #2 (February, 1976) and Daredevil #23 (December , 1966)

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Marvel Adventure #3 (April, 1976) and Daredevil #24 (January, 1967)

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Marvel Adventure #4 (June, 1976) and Daredevil #25 (February, 1967)

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Marvel Adventure #5 (August, 1976) and Daredevil #26 (March, 1967)

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Marvel Adventure #6 (October , 1976) and Daredevil #27 (April , 1967)

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