Nurses In Our Army At War

Sgt. Rock of Easy Company was always helpful during the war, and worked to save a nurse in Our Army At War #104 (March, 1961) and was saved by one in Our Army At War #159 (October, 1965), both covers by Joe Kubert.

Horrors Of War

A few all too rare covers by Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez, featuring the supernatural at war, with Weird War Tales #41 (September, 1975) and Weird War Tales #48 (September-October, 1976).

Swamp Thing Gets The Point

Swamp Thing gets the point in two of his earlier covers (#15 and #16, March-April and May, 1975), both drawn by Nestor Redondo.

Celebrating Artist Jan Duursema

Celebrating artist Jan Duursema on her birthday (October 27, 1954) with a couple of her Warlord covers, featuring Travis Morgan and Tara facing an old Aquaman villain, the Scavenger, who was transformed into a magical menace as the Scavenger of Souls in Warlord #124 and #125 (December, 1987 and January, 1988).

Celebrating Artist Paris Cullins

Celebrating artist Paris Cullins on his birthday (October 26, 1960) with a couple of his Blue Beetle covers, featuring his Legends crossovers, and a battle with Chronos.  (Blue Beetle #9 and #10, February and March, 1987).

Clayface Is Back

Clayface is back...or so the cover said....but was he really?

Not so much, as it was scientist Preston Payne, distilling a sample from the second Clayface (Matt Hagen, more on him here), who triggered his own cellular degradation, forcing him to absorb others and live in a strength enhancing exoskeleton to stay alive.  This brought him into conflict with Batman, in these two issues of Detective Comics (#478 and #479, July-August and September-October, 1978) by Len Wein, Marshall Rogers and Dick Giordano.

Remembering Artist Nick Cardy

Remembering artist Nick Cardy on his birthday (October 20, 1920 - November 3, 2013) with a couple of scary brides...one from Witching Hour #18 (December-January, 1971/1972) , and another from Ghosts #14 (April, 1973). 

Menacing Monkeys

In the early days, anything could be a menace, including monkeys, as evidenced by Cholly the Chimp in House of Mystery #55 (October, 1956) with cover art by Leonard Starr, or an organ grinder's pet, as in House of Mystery #58 (January, 1957), with cover by Bill Ely.

Remembering Artist Luis Dominguez

Remembering artist Luis Dominguez on his birthday (October 17, 1923 - July 1, 2020) with a couple of his covers featuring people under a watery threat...from Ghosts #38 (May, 1975) and Unexpected #165 (June, 1975).

Celebrating Artist George Pratt

Celebrating the birthday of artist George Pratt (October 13, 1960) with a couple of his covers for the Impact! line (an experiment of DC's focusing on the Archie super heroes of earlier days...), with a couple of the annuals from June, 1992 featuring the Black Hood, the Comet, the Legend Of The Shield, the Fly, Jaguar and The Web during the EarthQuest crossover.

Femme Fatales

A couple of femme fatales coming at you, with the Lady In The Moon from House Of Secrets #17 (February, 1959) and The Girl From 50,000 Fathoms from House Of Secrets #21 (June, 1959), both covers by Bill Ely.

Skeletal Scares

A couple of covers by Nick Cardy featuring skeletons, a group at a hotel for Ghosts #27 (June, 1974), and on a train for Ghosts #30 (September, 1974).

Remembering Artist Ramona Fradon

Remembering artist Ramona Fradon on her birthday (October 2, 1926 - February 24, 2024) with a couple of her Super Friends covers (#36 and #37, of September and October, 1980) featuring guest stars Plastic Man and Supergirl.

Scary Staircases

A couple of scary staircases, made scarier by what they lead to, in a couple of Luis Dominguez covers for House Of Secrets (#125 and #126, November and December, 1974).

Remembering Artist Russ Heath

Remembering artist Russ Heath on his birthday (September 29, 1926 - August 23, 2018) with a couple of his early covers featuring Easy Company fighting with and facing tanks!  

Our Army At War #86 and #87, September and October, 1959.

Remembering Joe Kubert

Remembering artist, editor, art teacher and founder of the Kubert School, Joe Kubert, on his birthday (September 18, 1926 - August 12, 2012).  

As this birthday is something special, here it is recalled with his 3 DC Specials.

DC Special #5 (October-December, 1969)

This special has a nice sample of Joe Kubert's work at DC, as well as a history of the artist.

Included here are:

Our Army At War #113 (December, 1961) with Sgt. Rock, a story of young Eagle Feather from Showcase #2 (May-June, 1956), Hawkman vs. the Matter Master from Brave and the Bold #35 (April-May, 1961) and a Viking Prince story from Brave and the Bold #18 (June-July, 1958).

DC Special #12 (May-June, 1971)

This issue featured the Viking Prince, with stories from Brave and the Bold #1, #5 and #16 (August-September, 1955, April-May, 1956 and February-March, 1958, though the cover for #16 is by Irv Novick) as well as non-Kubert stories featuring the Silent Knight and The Golden Gladiator from Brave and the Bold #1 (August-September, 1955).

More on the Viking Prince here!

DC Special #26 (February-March, 1977)

This special focused on the Enemy Ace, with stories from Star Spangled War Stories #143 (February-March, 1969, but sadly, edited), a feature from Star Spangled War Stories #139 (June-July, 1968) and Hans von Hammer's debut from Our Army At War #151 (February, 1965) (with more about Enemy Ace here). 

For these, and so many more, like Ragman and Tarzan, we will remember Joe Kubert.

Celebrating Artist Mike Mignola

Celebrating the birthday of artist Mike Mignola (September 16, 1960) with something cosmic...Cosmic Odyssey, that is.  

A 4 issue mini-series of the late 1980s, setting the heroes of Earth, including the Justice League, and Doctor Fate, the Demon, Starfire and more against the forces of Apokolips under Darkseid.

Cosmic Odyssey #1 and #2 (December and Winter, 1988)

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Cosmic Odyssey #3 and #4 (Holiday, 1988 and January, 1989)

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Celebrating Artist Mike Grell

Celebrating artist Mike Grell on his birthday (September 13, 1947) with the first twelve covers for the 2009 Warlord series...

...with Travis Morgan as the Warlord, and a cast of characters from the lost world of Skartaris.

Warlord #1 and #2 (June and July, 2009)

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Warlord #3 and #4 (August and September, 2009)

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Warlord #5 and #6 (October and November, 2009)

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Warlord #7 and #8 (December, 2009 and January, 2010)

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Warlord #9 and #10 (February and March, 2010)

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Warlord #11 and #12 (April and May, 2010)

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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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