Sword Of Conan

Conan the Barbarian, easily the most famous of fantasy's sword slinging heroes, slashed swords with the best of them, here, with Red Sonja in Marvel Feature #7 (November, 1976, with art by Frank Thorne), and with King Kull in Conan The Barbarian #68 (November, 1976, with cover art by Gil Kane, John Romita and Pablo Marcus).

Celebrating Artist Bob Layton

Celebrating the birthday of writer/artist Bob Layton (September 25, 1953), with a couple of his earliest Iron Man covers (Iron Man #120 and #121, from March and April, 1979), which also feature the Sub-Mariner!

Celebrating Artist Dan Day

Celebrating the birthday of artist Dan Day (September 23, 1956) with a trio of his covers featuring the Vigilante, Adrian Chase, featuring action shots of the titular hero of the title as he wages a battle against someone who had taken his mantle and did not use it for good.

Vigilante Annual #1 (September, 1985) and Vigilante #24 (December, 1985)

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Vigilante #25 (January, 1986)

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Sword Of The Warlord

The Warlord (USAF pilot Travis Morgan, stuck in the savage land of Skartaris) had to use a sword to defend himself against monster and magician, here in two issues of Warlord (#29 and #34, January and June, 1980) with covers by Mike Grell.

Batman Day 2025

Celebrating Batman Day this year by showing Batman wasn't the loner that he was portrayed as by the movies, with a couple of Best of DC Digest covers by Jim Aparo, featuring Batman and some of the other stars of Brave and the Bold (issue #26 of July, 1982, with Deadman, Viking Prince, Robin Hood, the Suicide Squad, Cave Carson and the Silent Knight) and some of his fellow Detective Comics stars (issue #30 of November, 1982, with Martian Manhunter, Jason Bard, Mysto, the Elongated Man, the Human Target, Robin, Batgirl, Captain Compass and Roy Raymond).

Remembering Artist Joe Kubert

Remembering artist Joe Kubert on his birthday (September 18, 1926 - August 12, 2012) with a couple of incredible Batman covers he did, featuring the Gentleman Ghost....for Batman #310 (April, 1979) and Batman #319 (January, 1980).

Celebrating Artist Mike Mignola

Celebrating the birthday of artist Mike Mignola (September 16, 1960) with a little of his cover art for DC, featuring the ghostly guardian, the Spectre, teaming up with Zatanna and Madame Xanadu, facing Wotan and Death!

Spectre #7 and #8 (October and November, 1987)

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Spectre #9 (December, 1987) and Tales of the Unexpected #1 (December, 2006)

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Sword Of Claw

Here, a couple of covers from Claw The Unconquered, by Keith Giffen and Ernie Chan, featuring the barbaric Claw (a warrior with a demon's hand) fighting against Mahan K'Handa and N'Hglthss in Claw The Unconquered #8 and #9 (July-August and September-October, 1976).

 

Celebrating Artist Mike Grell

Celebrating artist Mike Grell on his birthday (September 13, 1947), with his covers of Vigilante, featuring Peacemaker.

Peacemaker, who was willing to kill for peace, came out of the Crisis On Infinite Earths a little raddled with a head injury, making him more violent than usual.  He confronted the new Vigilante (Dave Winston), and killed him, forcing Dave's predecessor, Adrian Chase, to put back on the mantle of the Vigilante.

Vigilante #36 and #37 (December, 1986 and January, 1987)

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Vigilante #38 (February, 1987)

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Remembering Artist Frank Robbins

Remembering artist Frank Robbins on his birthday (September 9, 1917-November 28, 1994) with an odd one...

...a real life stuntman, the Human Fly, who rode his motorcycle into fame in the comics being a super hero...

...for 19 issues (with Frank's covers below!).

Human Fly #5 and #6 (January and February, 1978)

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Human Fly #8 and #11 (April and July, 1978)

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Human Fly #12 (August, 1978)

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Star Trek 59th Anniversary

In 1966, on this date, Star Trek first boldly went where no man had gone before with Captain Kirk and his crew of the starship Enterprise.

Some time has passed since then, and, to commemorate the event, a small collection of covers from 59th issues of Star Trek, with Gold Key (art by Mel Crawford), DC (with art by Jerome Moore), DC's Next Generation (with art by Jason Palmer and Jerome Moore) and IDW (with main art by Tony Shasteen).

Star Trek #59 (Gold Key) and Star Trek #59 (DC)

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Star Trek: The Next Generation (DC) and Star Trek #59 (IDW)

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Sword Of Amethyst

A couple of covers by George Perez and Ernie Colon, featuring the Princess of Gemworld, Amethyst (Amy Winston), who welded her mystic powers to protect the mythical land of Gemworld from Dark Opal.

Covers for Amethyst, Princess Of Gemworld #7 and #11 (November, 1983 and March, 1984).

Remembering Artist Jay Scott Pike

Remembering artist Jay Scott Pike on his birthday (September 6, 1924 - September 13, 2015), who drew many romance comics for DC, and here are two of the groovier ones from Secret Hearts (#129 and #130, from July and September, 1968), part of the Reach For Happiness serial that ran from #110 to #138, featuring the adventures of Karen Wilder Sommers in Hollywood.

Celebrating Artist Flint Henry

Celebrating the birthday of artist Flint Henry (September 3, 1959) with his covers of the last issues of DC's Captain Atom run, featuring the Quantum Quest, where Captain Atom dealt with Shadowstorm and an alternate reality, setting up for Armageddon.

Captain Atom #54 and #55 (June and July, 1991)

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Captain Atom #56 and #57 (August and September, 1991)

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Celebrating Artist Joe Jusko

Celebrating artist Joe Jusko on his birthday (September 1, 1959) with a few of his covers for the Image series featuring Lady Pendragon.

Lady Pendragon is a multigenerational story, featuring Lady Guinevere from Camelot, her modern day descendant Jennifer Drake who revives magic in the modern world, and Princess Iseult, who leads mankind to Mars in future.

Lady Pendragon #1 Joe Jusko variant and Dynamic Forces Foil cover (November, 1998)

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Lady Pendragon #4 (August, 1999)

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Lady Pendragon #1 and #8 (April, 1999 and February, 2000)

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