Today in Comics History, August 12: A birthday poem for Chris Sims

I'm a bull of very little brain / But I have great friends on the internet


And when it's their birthday again / What kind of gifts for them to get?


Now this time it's for pal Chris Sims / Who likes his action wild and rough


With kicking feet and thrashing limbs / And all his heroes built Ford tough


Don't give him just a pair of socks / Presents should be the kind Chris needs


Give a fight scene that really rocks / Gift the man not words, but deeds


Preferably with some kung fu / And punches to the face and gut


No ordinary fight will do / His birthday gift must kick some butt


Make it with style and with flair / But let me tell you, for god's sake


Don't ever even try to dare / To give the man Anita Blake.


So the best gift I can think of / A birthday gift that shows pure class


Given with respect and love / Here's Iron Fist kicking Batroc's ass.

Happy Birthday, Chris!

All the panels for Chris this year
Are taken from Marvel Premiere
Ish twenty, January, Seventy-Five
When Chris was hardly yet alive.
Tony Isabella did his part
Writing the script. And the art
Was done by Arvell Jones and Dan
Green, kicking ass as only they can.
Coloring was by John Drake
(That's a pen name, make no mistake
For Carl Gafford). And by the way
Letters by Ray Holloway.