Remembering Artist John Romita

Remembering artist John Romita on his birthday (January 24, 1930 - June 12, 2023) with a couple of his covers to Amazing Spider-Man (#66 and #67, from November and December, 1968) featuring the master of illusion....Mysterio!

Celebrate Thor's Day With Him

Fresh from his hatching out of his cocoon in Fantastic Four #67 (October, 1967, with cover by Jack Kirby and Joe Sinnott), the creature created by the Enclave, known as "Him", faced Thor and Sif in Thor #165 and #166 (June and July, 1969, covers by Kirby and Vince Colletta)...and would then later return in Marvel Premiere #1 (April, 1972, covers by Gil Kane and Dan Adkins) as the man called Adam Warlock!

Celebrating Artist Joe Staton

Celebrating artist Joe Staton on his birthday (January 19, 1948), here with his last two issues of Green Lantern Corps...#221 (February, 1988), featuring a Millennium crossover, and #222 (March, 1988), featuring what looked like a final end to Sinestro (which actually led to the end of the Green Lantern Corps!).

Joe was also busy at this time, drawing all eight issues of Millennium!

Celebrating Artist Frank Quitely

Celebrating the birthday of artist Frank Quitely (January 18, 1968) with the covers to his 4 issue mini-series featuring Flex Mentallo...

...with some surreal reflections of a comic book character and his interactions with the real world.  

Flex Mentallo #1 and #2 (June and July, 1996)

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Flex Mentallo #3 and #4 (August and September, 1996)

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Star Trek Dax's Comet

Jadzia Dax discovers a comet headed toward the wormhole, which causes a religious sect to proclaim doom coming to Bajor.  Major Kira Nerys has to deal with her people as Jadzia and the Deep Space Nine crew deal with the comet in these two issues of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (#14 and #15, September and October, 1994. with covers by Leonard Kirk and Terry Pallot, and stories by Jerry Bingham, Tim Eldred and Bruce McCorkindale).

Happy Anniversary To The Bionic Woman

On January 14, 1976, the Bionic Woman debuted as her own show, spinning off from the Six Million Dollar Man, and featuring Lindsay Wagner as Jaime Sommers, the titular hero, who had a skydiving accident, resulting in the replacement of her legs, one arm and one leg with bionics.  Enhanced, she went on missions for the OSI under Oscar Goldman for 3 seasons (occasionally working with Steve Austin).

The show ended on May 4, 1977...but Dynamite comics gave readers a season four, a four issue mini-series, with covers by Sean Chen, where she faces Fembots.

Bionic Woman: Season Four #1 and #2 (September and October, 2014)

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Bionic Woman: Season Four #3 and #4 (November and December, 2014)

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Holy Anniversary Batman

Yes, citizen, on January 12, 1966, kids across the country thrilled to the debut of the Batman TV show, with Adam West as Batman, Burt Ward as Robin, and as his first villain....Frank Gorshin as the Riddler!

The show would last 3 seasons and a movie, introducing many villains as well as Batgirl to the TV audience.

But, DC was finally nice enough in March, 2014 (with cover by Amanda Connor) Batman: The TV Stories, which featured the issues below, highlighting stories and villains from the series such as the Riddler, the Penguin, the Mad Hatter, Mr. Freeze (then called Mr. Zero in the comic) and the Joker, as well as later addition, Batgirl (and the LACK of a Catwoman story is a crime!).

Riddler - Detective Comics #140 (October, 1948) and Batman #171 (May, 1965)

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Joker  - Batman #53 (June-July, 1949) and #73 (October-November, 1952)

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Mad Hatter and Mr. Zero (Freeze) -  Detective Comics #230 (April, 1956) and Batman #121 (February, 1959)

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Penguin and Joker - Batman #169 (February, 1965) and Detective Comics #341 (July, 1965)

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A death trap and Batgirl - Detective Comics #346 (December, 1965) and #359 (January, 1967)

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For more information, check here on Adam West, and here for more on Batman's rogues!

Star Trek Klingons

Q has put the crew of the Enterprise-D through a few traumatic events, but nothing like when he turned the human members of the crew into Klingons!  In Star Trek: The Next Generation #33-#35 (Early July, Late July and Early August, 1992, with first two covers by Jerome Moore and the third by Jason Palmer, and stories by Michael Jan Friedman, Ken Penders and Pablo Marcos), a slightly more hostile Enterprise crew makes their way through the final frontier...

Celebrating Artist Boris Vallejo

Celebrating the birthday of noted artist Boris Vallejo (January 8, 1941), with a couple of his covers to Savage Sword Of Conan (#7 and #10, August 1975 and February, 1976).

Boris did much work for Marvel, including tales featuring Ka-Zar, vampires and zombies!

Remembering Artist Bruno Premiani

Remembering artist Bruno Premiani on his birthday (January 4, 1907 - August 17, 1984) with My Greatest Adventure....the earliest appearances of the Doom Patrol, where he, Arnold Drake and Bob Haney created the Chief, Robotman, Elasti-Girl and Negative Man, and their vilest villain, General Immortus.

Bruno didn't do the cover to #85, but the Doom Patrol took over the title with #86 with the introduction of the Brotherhood of Evil.

My Greatest Adventure #80 and #81 (June and August, 1963)

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My Greatest Adventure #82 and #83 (September and November, 1963)

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My Greatest Adventure #84  (December, 1963)

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Star Trek Covered By Jim Starlin

A couple of Star Trek covers from the time between Star Trek III and Star Trek IV, when DC had the license.  Here, in issues #24 and #25 (March and April, 1986), Kirk and the Enterprise crew faced off against waring races, the Ajir and the Grond...all under covers by Jim Starlin, with interiors by Diane Duane, Tom Sutton and Ricardo Villagran.

Remembering Artist Don Heck

Remembering artist Don Heck on his birthday (January 2, 1929 - February 23, 1995) with a couple of covers from his Flash run....here, facing a little gorilla warfare, fighting against Gorilla Grodd in Gorilla City from issues #294 and #295 (February and March, 1981).