A Sugar and Spike Halloween, Night 18: The Adventures of Pumpkinhead and Barrel Boy

"Trick or Treat Pint-Size Pin-Ups" in Sugar and Spike #37 (October-November 1961); script, pencils, and inks by Sheldon Mayer

Today in Comics History, October 17, 1992: Secret super-villain organization has real cool letterhead logo

from Digitek #4 (Marvel UK, March 1993), script by John Tomlinson and Andy Lanning

Today in Comics History, October 17: Happy birthday, puny Banner

from New Avengers (2013 series) #23 (Marvel, October 2014), script by Jonathan Hickman, pencils and inks by Kevin Walker, colors by Frank Martin, letters by Joe Caramagna

A Sugar and Spike Halloween, Night 17: The Cats-in-Jammies Kids

Panels from "Sugar and Spike Turn into a Pair of Halloween Cats!" in Sugar and Spike #61 (October-November 1965); script, pencils, and inks by Sheldon Mayer

AWAY FROM KEYBOARD

In the meantime, please enjoy The World's Greatest Combination of Publicity Still and Photo Caption.


from Starlog #2 (November 1976)

A Sugar and Spike Halloween, Night 16: You can't always get what you want

Panels from "Halloween Magic" in Sugar and Spike #67 (October-November 1966); script, pencils, and inks by Sheldon Mayer

Today in Comics History, October 15, 1992: Seven made-up words are used for the first time

detail of intro page from Digitek #3 (Marvel UK, February 1993), script by John Tomlinson and Andy Lanning

Today in Comics History, October 15, 1991: Lion, tiger, and Army officer are combined into a single deadly letter-writing machine

intro page from Digitek #1 (Marvel UK, December 1992), script by John Tomlinson and Andy Lanning

A Sugar and Spike Halloween, Night 15: Boys and girls of every age / Wouldn't you like to see something strange?

Panels from "Sugar and Spike Tackle Halloween" in Sugar and Spike #31 (October-November 1960); script, pencils, and inks by Sheldon Mayer

A Sugar and Spike Halloween, Night 14: You Didn't Tell Me You Were Gonna Kill It!

Panels from "The Big Ha-Ha Time" in Sugar and Spike #25 (October-November 1959); script, pencils, and inks by Sheldon Mayer

Today in Comics History, Columbus Day Special: The Mystery Science Theater 1946 pilot is not picked up for series

Panel from the Johnny Everyman story "The American Dream" in World's Finest Comics #22 (May-June 1946), script by Jack Schiff, pencils and inks by John Daly

Today in Comics History, Columbus Day Special: Boy Commandos unable to fight any more Nazis; decide to go messing about with history instead

from The Boy Commandos story "Brooklyn and Columbus Discover America" in World's Finest Comics #21 (DC, March-April 1946), script by Jack Kirby, pencils by Curt Swan, inks by George Klein

Today in Comics History, Columbus Day Special: DC Comics invents "What If"

"Flying Colors" from Comic Cavalcade #1 (DC, Winter 1942-1943); script, pencils and inks by John M. Jenks

A Sugar and Spike Halloween, Night 13: Monsters, LLC.

Panel from "Pint-Size Pin-Ups" in Sugar and Spike #49 (October-November 1963); script, pencils, and inks by Sheldon Mayer

Today in Comics History, October 12, 1963: First appearance in comics: The Maalox Moment

from "Secret Identity" in (top) Warrior #7 (Quality Communications, November 1982), script by Alan Moore; pencils, inks, and letters by Garry Leach;
(bottom) Miracleman #2 (Eclipse, October 1985), colors by Ron Courtney

Today in Comics History, October 12 (Let's Poke Fun at Columbus Day Special): The Absolutely True Diary of a Brooklyn Indian

Let's join America's favorite comic books characters as they travel through time and meet Christopher Columbus!







from the Doc and Fatty story "See America Foist!" in World's Finest Comics #41 (DC, July 1949), pencils and inks by Howard Sherman

Today in Comics History, October 12, 1963: Johnny Bates driven murderously insane by Airfix plastic spaceship model

from "When Johnny Comes Marching Home..." in Warrior #3 (Quality Communications, July 1982); script by Alan Moore; pencils, inks, and letters by Garry Leach
And now, in colour!:
from "When Johnny Comes Marching Home..." in Miracleman (1985 series) #1 (Eclipse, August 1985), credits as above plus colors by Ron Courtney

Today in Comics History, October 12: Entire Walker family goes bat-crap insane

from Patsy Walker #38 (Marvel/Atlas, January 1952); script, pencils and inks by Al Jaffee

A Sugar and Spike Halloween, Night 12: The Unbearable Hubris of Sugar Plumm

Cover of Sugar and Spike #43 (October-November 1962); script, pencils, and inks by Sheldon Mayer