cover and inside front cover of Four Color #1233 [Tammy Tell Me True] (Dell, September 1961)
Tuesday, April 23, 2024
Today in Comics History, April 23: Happy birthday, Sandra Dee!
🎵Look at me, I'm a L.S.B.🎵...and I'm here to wish a very happy birthday to Miss Sandra Dee, born on this day in 1942! You may remember Sandra from such fine movies as The Reluctant Debutante, A Stranger in My Arms, Gidget, That Funny Feeling, The Daughters of Joshua Cabe, and of course that "Tammy" movie that didn't star Debbie Reynolds or Beulah Bondi: 1961's Tammy Tell Me True, which was adapted into an ish of Dell's perpetual Four Color series.
cover and inside front cover of Four Color #1233 [Tammy Tell Me True] (Dell, September 1961)
cover and inside front cover of Four Color #1233 [Tammy Tell Me True] (Dell, September 1961)
Today in Comics History, April 23: Happy birthday, Michael Moore!
Born on this day: film director, producer, screenwriter and author Michael Moore of fame for Roger & Me, Bowling for Columbine, Fahrenheit 9/11, and let us not forget, Canadian Bacon (and more). Moore's movies have attracted controversial attention for his extreme liberal views and weighting his narrative through editing, which makes him a perfect character to appear in recent-years' issues of MAD magazine:
from "Idiotic Anti-Gun Control Arguments The NRA Hasn't Used - Yet!" in MAD #483 (November 2007), script by Jacob Lambert, pencils and inks by Peter Kuper
from "Idiotic Anti-Gun Control Arguments The NRA Hasn't Used - Yet!" in MAD #483 (November 2007), script by Jacob Lambert, pencils and inks by Peter Kuper
Today in Comics History, April 23: Happy birthday, Stephanie Phillips!
Born on this day: comics scripter Stephanie Phillips (Harley Quinn, Grim, Wonder Woman: Evolution, Taarna the Last Taarakian, A Man Among Ye, Nuclear Family, Capwolf & the Howling Commandos and many more)!
"DC Nation" from DC Comics cover-dated January 2022
Happy birthday, Stephanie!
"DC Nation" from DC Comics cover-dated January 2022
Happy birthday, Stephanie!
Today in Comics History, April 23, 1945: It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Earth-2
from Last Days of the Justice Society Special #1 one-shot (DC, July 1986), co-plot and script by Roy Thomas, co-plot by Dann Thomas, pencils by David Ross, inks by Mike Gustovich, colors by Carl Gafford, letters by David Cody Weiss
Today in Comics History, April 23: Happy birthday, James Buchanan!
Born on this day in 1791: the 15th President of the United States James Buchanan, who, let's face it, wasn't all that great. More to the point, it's nigh-impossible to find actual references to him in comic books because search results are clogged up by you know who. But I did find a couple comic appearances. Hey, comic books: can you sum up the entirely of his career in two pages? You bet they can!:
from Life Stories of American Presidents one-shot (Dell, November 1957), pencils and inks by John Buscema, letters by Ben Oda
Following his death, General Córdova was pressed flat and turned into a stamp of a lion by Colonel Gumm.
"All-American Stamp Page" from All-American Comics (1939 series) #25 (DC/J.R. Publishing, April 1941), creators uncredited and unknown
Much later, like all Presidents, he became a zombie and fought Deadpool.
from Deadpool (2013 series) #4 (Marvel, March 2013), script by Gerry Duggan and Brian Posehn, pencils and inks by Tony Moore, colors byt Val Staples, letters by Joe Sabino
There. That's all you need to know about James Buchanan.
from Life Stories of American Presidents one-shot (Dell, November 1957), pencils and inks by John Buscema, letters by Ben Oda
Following his death, General Córdova was pressed flat and turned into a stamp of a lion by Colonel Gumm.
"All-American Stamp Page" from All-American Comics (1939 series) #25 (DC/J.R. Publishing, April 1941), creators uncredited and unknown
Much later, like all Presidents, he became a zombie and fought Deadpool.
from Deadpool (2013 series) #4 (Marvel, March 2013), script by Gerry Duggan and Brian Posehn, pencils and inks by Tony Moore, colors byt Val Staples, letters by Joe Sabino
There. That's all you need to know about James Buchanan.
Today in Comics History, April 23, 1948: Blue Man Group Day at Briggs Stadium is a big success
from Larry Doby, Baseball Hero one-shot (Fawcett, 1950), script by Charles Dexter
Today in Comics History, April 23: Happy birthday, J. M. W. Turner!
Born on this day in 1775: Romantic painter (you mean, like Pepe le Pew?) J. M. W. Turner, known for his pastoral landscapes and his dramatic paintings of ships at sea. And not known for his appearances in comic books, of which I could find none, altho' he might be on the inside of this book, which I don't have.
On the other hoof, remember when yours little stuffed truly went to the Turner exhbit in Mystic, Connecticut? That was fun! See more here!
Happy birthday, J. M. W.! For your birthday, I hope you get some names to go with your initials.
On the other hoof, remember when yours little stuffed truly went to the Turner exhbit in Mystic, Connecticut? That was fun! See more here!
Happy birthday, J. M. W.! For your birthday, I hope you get some names to go with your initials.
Monday, April 22, 2024
Today in Comics History, April 22: Happy birthday, Ralph Byrd!
Born on this day in 1909: actor Ralph Byrd, who appeared in dozens of movies and film serials across two decades, including The Trigger Trio, S.O.S. Tidal Wave, The Howards of Virginia, The Mark of Zorro, North West Mounted Police, The Son of Monte Cristo, Rudyard Kipling's Jungle Book, Radar Secret Service, Jungle Goddess (those last two riffed on TV's Mystery Science Theater 3000), and lots more, but he's especially know as Chester Gould's square-jawed detective Dick Tracy in four serials. When the role was recast at RKO in 1945 with Morgan Conway, movie exhbitors protested and Byrd returned to the role to do two more features in 1947!
photo cover of Ralph Byrd on A Cop Called Tracy #7 (Avalon, 1999)
Byrd played another comics character role portraying cowboy crimefighter Greg Sanders/Saunders in 1947's movie serial The Vigilante: Fighting Hero of the West from Columbia.
cover of Real Fact Comics #10 (DC/National, September 1947), pencils and inks by Mort Meskin
DC Comics didn't adapt the story, but they did publish a making-of-the-movie-series story in Real Fact Comics!
from "How a Movie Serial Is Made!" in Real Fact Comics #10; script by Jack Schiff, Mort Weisinger, and/or Bernard Breslauer; pencils by Mort Meskin, inks by George Roussos
Happy birthday, Ralph Byrd!
photo cover of Ralph Byrd on A Cop Called Tracy #7 (Avalon, 1999)
Byrd played another comics character role portraying cowboy crimefighter Greg Sanders/Saunders in 1947's movie serial The Vigilante: Fighting Hero of the West from Columbia.
cover of Real Fact Comics #10 (DC/National, September 1947), pencils and inks by Mort Meskin
DC Comics didn't adapt the story, but they did publish a making-of-the-movie-series story in Real Fact Comics!
from "How a Movie Serial Is Made!" in Real Fact Comics #10; script by Jack Schiff, Mort Weisinger, and/or Bernard Breslauer; pencils by Mort Meskin, inks by George Roussos
Happy birthday, Ralph Byrd!
Saturday, April 20, 2024
Today in Comics History, April 20, 1966: Happy birthday, Mutator!
Please wish a happy bithday to porcupine impersonator and true inventor of the grunge look, Mutator!
from D.P. 7 #26 (Marvel/New Universe, December 1988), pencils by Paul Ryan
from D.P. 7 #26 (Marvel/New Universe, December 1988), pencils by Paul Ryan
Today in Comics History, April 20, 1956: It Could Happen Here
from The Multiversity: Mastermen #1 one-shot (DC, April 2015); script by Grant Morrison; pencils by Jim Lee; inks by Scott Williams, Sandra Hope, Mark Irwin, and Jonathan Glapion; colors by Alex Sinclair and Jeromy Cox; letters by Rob Leigh
Thursday, April 18, 2024
What's Bully Reading? 2024 #25: The Complete Wallace & Gromit Comic Strips Collection, Volume 2
(This is actually from a couple months ago on February 14, but I forgot to give it a proper number until now, so it goes in here! Gee, that's convenient.)
As seen in The Sun newspaper! So that's the sole decent thing worth reading in The Sun.
I was initially annoyed that there were no creator credits in the front of the book, and the strips themselves are credited as "by Aardman and Titan Comics"...
...but there were group credits at the very back of the book, at least.
Mostly anonymous comic strip creators, we salute you!
As seen in The Sun newspaper! So that's the sole decent thing worth reading in The Sun.
I was initially annoyed that there were no creator credits in the front of the book, and the strips themselves are credited as "by Aardman and Titan Comics"...
...but there were group credits at the very back of the book, at least.
Mostly anonymous comic strip creators, we salute you!
Monday, April 15, 2024
Now Playing and What's Bully Reading 2024 #24: k.d. lang's Ingénue
IMLSO, it's her finest album and certainly my favorite.
This new edition has a second disc with her MTV Unplugged presentation of the songs on the album, too!
Also: What's Bully Reading? 2024 #24: 33⅓: k.d. Lang's Ingenue, by Joanna McNamey Stein.
Randi got John a whole bunch of 33⅓ books for his birthday, so he bought the records for them and now we are listening and reading at the same time!
Bully is listening to Ingénue (Sire/Warner Bros., 1992), by k.d. lang
Even through the darkest phase
Be it thick or thin
Always someone marches brave
Here beneath my skin
This new edition has a second disc with her MTV Unplugged presentation of the songs on the album, too!
Also: What's Bully Reading? 2024 #24: 33⅓: k.d. Lang's Ingenue, by Joanna McNamey Stein.
Randi got John a whole bunch of 33⅓ books for his birthday, so he bought the records for them and now we are listening and reading at the same time!
Bully is listening to Ingénue (Sire/Warner Bros., 1992), by k.d. lang
Even through the darkest phase
Be it thick or thin
Always someone marches brave
Here beneath my skin
Sunday, April 14, 2024
What's Bully (Re*)Reading? 2024 #23: X-Men: The Hidden Years Omnibus by John Byrne
Probably the final Byrne project that I liked, altho' a lot of his little peccadillos are very obvious here.
He forces in retcons of characters that haven't yet appeared in the X-Men's history (Storm, Phoenix), and splits up the cast of characters in issue #1 whom we don't see them back all together until final issue #22 (a bit like his approach on Alpha Flight). Also, his tendency to cram his story into others' past stories (Fantastic Four #102-104) and creating characters (Aria) that have nothing to do, and manuevers characters into uniforms they don't wear anymore to explain why they wore them in an old Captain America story.
He also inelegantly shoehorns in his characters from Marvel: The Lost Generation. Plus, I remember how pissy he was about the book being cancelled because it wasn't bringing in the numbers.
In short, I like the concept and the treatment of the characters and Byrne's artwork. But. (shrug)
*I have read these stories previously in floppy comic format.
He forces in retcons of characters that haven't yet appeared in the X-Men's history (Storm, Phoenix), and splits up the cast of characters in issue #1 whom we don't see them back all together until final issue #22 (a bit like his approach on Alpha Flight). Also, his tendency to cram his story into others' past stories (Fantastic Four #102-104) and creating characters (Aria) that have nothing to do, and manuevers characters into uniforms they don't wear anymore to explain why they wore them in an old Captain America story.
He also inelegantly shoehorns in his characters from Marvel: The Lost Generation. Plus, I remember how pissy he was about the book being cancelled because it wasn't bringing in the numbers.
In short, I like the concept and the treatment of the characters and Byrne's artwork. But. (shrug)
*I have read these stories previously in floppy comic format.
Saturday, April 13, 2024
What's Bully Reading? 2024 #22: The Plastic Man Archives, Volume 5, by Jack Cole
These are beautiful and brilliant and Cole should be mentioned in the same breath as Eisner. Alas.
Perhaps some tragic forewarning:
Perhaps some tragic forewarning:
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQenrY-T9_-EUVG2XBTW-ZiSnvw_V3JFU-8tiFlhrdgKCUBaE56ekbiILucymY9gA-xa4zdGy_z1Njojw78Z-YnlUiN4PIRRurK7GzqoEg3B-PmXl2RJaS1ZaVKVCEHP-m-WVr2xjqailLu1jlzylysiBGc3sVXLXNMFDzAURyrHhKBfcqyO4/s1600/button-libertybellmarch.jpg" "It's...")
