Thursday, October 18, 2012

Hey, Remember When That Happened?: 1963

Greetings, history-peepers! (With a special hello to you, Uatu!) On tonight's edition of Hey, Remember When That Happened?, let's travel back in time to the tumultuous year of 1963!


Astro Boy premieres in the US!




The Beatles' first album is released!




The first James Bond film debuts!




President Kennedy is assassinated!




Also, the world ended!


Panels from "The War That Never Happened!" in Wonder Woman #60 (July-August 1953), script by Robert Kanigher, pencils and inks by Harry G. Peter


Yeah...remember when that happened? Yeah, me either.




That's because it never happened. Yes! It never happened...thanks to...Happy Fun Ball!





And now you know why...you don't remember...when that happened!


Panel section from Fantastic Four #543 (April 2007), script by Dwayne McDuffie, pencils by Mike McKone, inks by Andy Lanning and Cam Smith, colors by Paul Mounts, letters by Rus Wooton



2 comments:

Lostshadows said...

The world may have ended, but Dr. No came out a year earlier in 1962.

Bully said...

You're right, Lost! It premiered in London in '62, and the US in '63.