Celebrating The Monkees

Celebrating the Anniversary of the debut of the Monkees TV show on September 12, 1966 on NBC.  The show featured light comedy and music by the band, featuring Davy Jones, Peter Tork, Michael Nesmith and Micky Dolenz.  

The show lasted 2 seasons with 58 episodes, ending on March 25, 1968, followed up by the movie, Head, in November, 1968 and an NBC TV special, 33 1/3 Revolutions Per Monkee on April 14, 1969, and an ABC one hour special, Hey Hey It's The Monkees, on February 17, 1997.

The band also had 9 albums under their original run, and 4 reunion albums from the 1980s to the 2010s.

Dell, a powerhouse in comics at the time, provided 17 issues of comics, based on the Monkees series, with interior art mostly by Jose Delbo, with the last issue being a reprint of the first. 

The Monkees #1 and #2 (March, and May, 1967)

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The Monkees #3 and #4 (July, and September 1967)

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The Monkees #5 and #6 (October and November, 1967)

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The Monkees #7 and #8 (December, 1967 and January, 1968)

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The Monkees #9 and #10 (February and March,1968)

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The Monkees #11 and #12 (May and June, 1968)

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The Monkees #13 and #14 (July and August, 1968)

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The Monkees #15 and #16 (September and November, 1968)

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The Monkees #17 (October, 1969)

Amethyst Princess Of Gemworld

Amy Winston was just a normal teenager...or so she thought.  In reality, she was Amethyst, Princess Of Gemworld, possessing magical powers and the will to fight for her enchanted land....though finding this out shattered her own world, as shown on these 2 covers for her original mini-series, issues #5 and #8 from September and December, 1983 by George Perez and Ernie Colon.

Celebrating Artist Kevin Maguire

Celebrating artist Kevin Maguire on his birthday (September 9, 1960) with a small group of his covers with the Justice League...

...as he made his fame drawing the Justice League as a group with attitude (especially Guy Gardner) starting with Justice League #1 (May, 1987) and going well into the 1990s.

Justice League International #24 (February, 1989) and Justice League Europe Annual #2 (October, 1991)

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Justice League Europe #36 (March, 1992) and Formerly Known As The Justice League #1 (September, 2003)

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Titans Sell Out Special #1 (November, 1992) and Fanboy #3 (May, 1999)

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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!

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.

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!

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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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.

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).

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). 

Kirby Tales To Astonish

Here, a couple of Jack Kirby covers from Tales To Astonish (#48 and #53, from October 1963 and March 1964), where in Ant-Man/Giant-Man (Hank Pym) and the Wasp (Janet Van Dyne) face the Porcupine (Alex Gentry).

Remembering Artist Jim Aparo

Remembering artist Jim Aparo on his birthday (August 24, 1932 - July 19, 2005) with the Masters of Disaster!

Foes for Batman and the Outsiders (here from issues #9 and #10, April and May, 1984), the best of the (many) villain groups Aparo and Mike W. Barr did to face Batman and his group of super heroes.

The team was New Wave (Becky Jones, leader with water powers), her sister Windfall (Wendy Jones, with air powers), Shakedown (who had Earth powers), Coldsnap (Darryl, with cold powers) and his wife, Heatstroke (with flame powers).

Kirby Strange Tales

A couple of fatalistic covers by Jack Kirby for Strange Tales, #96 from May, 1962, with a man dreaming of a doom....to #97 from June, 1962, with doom coming to the whole planet!

Celebrating Artist Alex Saviuk

Celebrating the birthday of artist Alex Saviuk (August 17, 1952) with a couple of his covers to Web Of Spider-Man (#47 and #48, February and March, 1989), where Spider-Man faces Hobgoblin and Demogoblin.

Remembering Artist Jim Mooney

Remembering artist Jim Mooney on his birthday (August 13, 1919 - March 30, 2008) with a couple of covers with punch, as Robin delivers the haymaker in Star Spangled Comics #80 (May, 1948) and gets one in Star Spangled Comics #82 (July, 1948).

Kirby Tales Of Suspense

Alien menaces were all over the pre-hero Marvel Universe, as the hapless humans of Earth had to deal with Zarkorr from Tales of Suspense #35 (November, 1962) and Haag (name misspelled on the cover as Hagg) from Tales of Suspense #37 (January, 1963) in these two covers by Jack Kirby.

Celebrating Artist Rick Leonardi

Celebrating the birthday of artist Rick Leonardi (August 9, 1957) with his covers to the first Vision and Scarlet Witch mini-series...

...which resulted in a big revelation about Wanda's dad!

Vision and the Scarlet Witch #1 and #2 (November and December, 1982)

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Vision and the Scarlet Witch #3 and #4 (January and February, 1983)

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Celebrating Artist Ed Hannigan

Celebrating the birthday of artist Ed Hannigan (August 6, 1951) with his covers for the second Annuals for the Question and Green Arrow from July, 1989, focusing on another team up of these streetwise heroes.

Kirby Amazing Adventures

Here, a couple of random Amazing Adventures, with covers by Jack Kirby, (#3 and #4, August and September, 1961), featuring humans dealing with a prehistoric age with dinosaurs and cavemen, and a village dealing with robotic invaders.

National Sisters Day 2026

Celebrating National Sisters Day with Wonder Woman and Troia.  Though Diana and Donna are not quite real sisters, they are pretty close....and it gives an opportunity to show off these Wonder Woman covers by George Perez from #47 and #48 (October and November, 1990), facing Circe's beastiamorphs.