L: Men's Adventures #26 (March 1954), art by Russ Heath
R: Chamber of Chills #20 (January 1976), reprinting "Midnight in the Morgue" from Men's Adventures #26, Ron Wilson and Dan Adkins
(Click picture to Quincy, M.E.-size)
And hey, Men's Adventures #26 featured the debut of Ken Hale, Gorilla-Man of the Agents of Atlas!
Panels from Avengers Annual #8 (1978), script by Roger Slifer, pencils by George Pérez, inks by Ricardo Villamonte, colors by Carl Gafford, letters by Elaine Heinl
Lot of exciting news coming out of New York Comic-Con! Jimmy Olsen's getting his own series...The Avengers movie will feature Stephen Fry as Jarvis...Stan Lee to invent a personal superhero character for every American citizen...but I've followed with most interest the news coming out of the BBC panels, where we're hearing hints of stuff that might be coming up on Torchwood (John Barrowman will kiss someone pretty!) and Primeval (CGI animators will continue to get work!). And then there's the flagstone and cornership of the BBC merchandising department—boy, did we learn some surprises about its upcoming episodes from series Executive Producer Stephen "Grand" Moffat! I know what you're thinking. "Did he broadcast six seasons or only five?" Well, to tell you the truth, in all this excitement I kind of lost track myself. But don't proceed unless you want to know secrets of the upcoming series! Yep, as our old pal Bob the Dalek screeches above: SPOILER WARNING! Do not read further if you do not want to know certain plot elements of the next series of Doctor Who!
Okay, ready?
Rose is back!
And, she's doing The Sex with the Doctor!
Say, did anybody else hear that? It sounded like the heads of a million fanboys exploding.
Oh! And also, Daleks will be in the new season! But don't give away that shocking surprise!
The universe is in danger! Sentinels are attacking! Apocalypse is apocalyptin'! Magneto's hoardes are on their way to pillage, burn and plunder! So what does the most brilliant mutant mind in the universe, Professor Charles J. (for "Jerk") Xavier command his students?
Panel from X-Men #8 (May 1992), plot, pencils, and inks by Jim Lee, script by Scott Lobdell, more inks by Art Thibert, colors by Joe Rosas, letters by Tom Orzechowski
Why, it's a MANDATORY PICNIC!
When they returned, of course, the X-Mansion had been completely destroyed by Juggernaut and the Blob. They ripped up Jubilee's closetful of yellow trench coats! They sat on Cyclops's extra ruby quartz glasses! They put Nair in Beast's shampoo bottles! They danced with jing-tinglers tied to their heels! They whammed their who-whonkers! (And I think we all know how painful that can be.) They even scratched up all of Wolverine's Debbie Gibson albums!
Also, Jean got killed again.
But no, the X-Men had to go have a picnic because Professor X said so.
Panel from Captain America #228 (December 1978), script by Roger McKenzie, breakdowns by Sal Buscema, finishes by Mike Esposito and John Tartaglione, colors by George Roussos, letters by Diana Albers
Mr. Roger Langridge! He's one of my favorite comics writers and artists. I remember his work first catching my attention in one of the old Amzing Heroes swimsuit specials. Did he draw Wolverine with water wings? Thor in a thong? No! His contribution was the cast of the much-beloved (by me 'n' others) BBC 1950s cult classic radio program The Goon Show at the beach!:
"FamousPeopleGoonHoliday" by Roger Langridge, from Amazing Heroes Swimsuit Special #1 (1990)
You can catch Roger Langridge currently writing and drawing issues of the relentlessly delightful The Muppet Show comic book from BOOM!, or, as Mister L. himself describes it: "currently drawing pigs in wigs and socks with ping pong balls glued to them to earn a crust."
So, y'know, if he can draw felt frogs and plush pigs...surely he can draw a little stuffed bull, can't he?
A: Yes he can.
Thank you very much for the sketch, Roger Langridge!
If you wanna see more of the work and art of Roger (and why wouldn't ya?), book yourself a room at The Hotel Fred, Roger's blog named after his sad-sack, lovelorn comic character Fred the Clown. Or, buy his stuff...you know you want it!
Roger Langridge: he's great, and he makes me look great.
Panel from X-Men #155 (June 2004), script by Chuck Austen, pencils by Salvador Larroca, inks by Danny Miki, colors by Udon Studio, letters by Rus Wooton
But what do we really know about him, anyway? Huh?
So here you go: everything you need to know about J. Jonah Jameson in just a handful of non-sequential panels, jumbled together to tell one sorta-continuous-meta-saga! (For best results, read panels aloud in the voice of J. K. Simmons.)
All panels are from issues of Spidey-Super Stories. And they really happened! (On Earth-57780.)
Splash page from Avengers #167 (January 1978), co-plot and script by Jim Shooter, co-plot by Roger Stern, pencils by George Pérez, inks by Pablo Marcos, colors by Phil Rachelson, letters by Joe Rosen
Panels from Uncanny X-Men #460 (August 2005), script by who else but Chris Claremont, pencils by Tom Raney, inks by Scott Hanna, colors by Gina Going, letters by Rus Wooton
Panel from X-Men #9 (June 1992), co-plot and script by Scott Lobdell, co-plot, pencils and inks by Jim Lee, more inks by Art Thibert, colors by Joe Rosas, letters by Tom Orzechowski
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