From Your Calendar Bull: Calendars for January 2022 and the whole dang year, actually!

cover of Popular Comics #13 (Dell, February 1937), artists unknown
Happy New Year! Well, I'm a little late, but I know you've been awaiting patiently (I hope) the beginning of my posts for Calendars from Past Comics Books That Work in 2022! That means (checks my handy clockwork wind-up Perpetual Calendar copyright 1907 by Smith & Tinker, Inc.) any calendar for 1949, 1955, 1966, 1977, 1983, 1994, 2005, or 2011...the Golden Age of Comics! (And, uh, the other ones.)

All of these you can cut out from your computer (please turn the power off first) and paste them up on your wall for January 2022 (or, as mentioned above, the whole dang year) for everyday calendarin' enjoyment! Note: before you use scissors, please get the permission of a parent or guardian or the nearest otter.



First up: 1949! Communists forces gain power in China! Soviet Union detonates its first atomic bomb! Americans buy 100,000 television sets a week! (Gee, you'd think they'd need only one or two.) "Silly Putty" introduced! And, as Four Color hits its 200th issue, you can clip-n-save-n-display-n-later-throw-out the 1949 Calendar by Pogo creator Walt Kelly!





from Four Color #201 [Christmas with Mother Goose] (November 1948), text (?) and pencils and inks by Walt Kelly
Here's an advert for the 1949 Katy Keene Kalendar Calendar (I corrected that because of the unfortunate acronym). Sure, the picture's tiny, but cut it out and hang it inside your favorite doll house, or indeeed, little stuffed bull house and it'll be at the perfect proportions.


ad from Archie Comics cover-dated December 1948
Or, you could just cut out the actual calendar when it runs in Archies.


"Katy Keene 1949 Pin-Up Calendar" from Archie Comics cover-dated December 1948, art by Bill Woggon
Meanwhile, over at Harvey "We Haven't Yet Become a Company That Publishes Only Macrocephalic Freaks" Comics, you can ring in 1949 and 2022 with Ham Fisher's Joe Palooka and all his pals! Like, uh, Ann Howe, Knobby Walsh...and...uh, Punchy, Ringside Ron, T.K.O. Eliot...er, Pesty, Mort, Jane and Tuffy.


"Joe Palooka 1949 Calendar" from Harvey Comics cover-dated February 1949, art by Ham Fisher
Further down the Hall of Harvey Heroes, check off the days of the year with hard-boiled PI Kerry Drake and his creator Alfred Andriola. That is one handsome, handsome man.


"Kerry Drake 1949 Calendar" in from Kerry Drake Detective Cases #13 (Harvey, March 1949), pencils and inks by Alfred Andriola
Let's swing into the 1955/2022 with Archie and all the gang, featuring Veronica Going Hawaiian! Which is...um, a calendar I don't have, but here's an ad for it. Intriguing, huh?


ad from Archie Comics cover-dated May 1954
And speaking or Archie Calendars...that I don't have...here's another ad for the 1966 Archie Calendar.


ad from Archie Comics cover-dated June 1965
And an ad for...no wait! I've got this one! Archie's 1994 Calendar! (Remember: it works in 2022!)


from Archie's Christmas Stocking #1 (Archie, January 1994), pencils by Dan DeCarlo, inks by Alison Flood
In 2022 you can relive 1966 and celebrate Harvey's Silver Anniversary! And oh, hooray, the Harvey Freaks of Nature are here. (waves flag unenthusiastically)


from Harvey Comics cover-dated May 1966
1977 creeps in with this ad for the Vampirella Art Calendar, which if you've got, good for you! 'Coz I'm not allowed to have it.


ad for "Vampirella Art Calendar 1977" from Creepy #89 (Warren, June 1977), art by Enrich Torres
But I was allowed to have 1977 Marvel Comics Memory Album Calendar!


from "Bullpen Bulletins" in Marvel Comics cover-dated December 1976
And here it is!

"January 1977", from Marvel Comics Memory Album Calendar 1977 (Marvel, December 1976)
(Click picture to Fantasti-size)
And was there a DC calendar for 1977?


ad from DC Comics cover-dated February 1977
You bet your sweet bippy!

"January 1977" from Super DC Calendar 1977 (December 1976), pencils by José Delbo, inks by Vince Colletta
(Click picture to Wonder-size)
(Both the Marvel and DC Calendar pages for February through December 1977/2022 will be shown off on this here li'l cow-town puppet blog throughout 2022!)

Let's all go to the UK in 1983 (the best year for doing it, because that's the year I spent there!) and pick up a couple sequential issues of 2000 AD (which yes, I indeed did) to put together the only pin-up calendar that knows what you're thinking about it!


"Tharg's Guide to the Future: Calendar 1983" from 2000 AD progs 297-298 (IPC, 1-8 January 1983); pencils, inks, and colors by Brett Ewins
I'll be featuring monthly installments of the 1994 Marvel Age Calendar...until the magazine gets cancelled, and then we won't have any from September onwards.


"January 1994" from Marvel Age #133 (Marvel, February 1994), pencils by Darren Auck, inks by Bob Wiacek
But we definitely will have the 2011 Marvel Calendar all this year!


"January 2011" from Marvel Calendar 2011
But here's my favorite calendar that works for 2022 that I've hung up by my little desk for all year 'round: in today's not-so-black-and-white world, isn't it more fun to look back on a color conflict that isn't a race war, in the never-ending agentventures of Spy vs. Spy?


"Spy vs. Spy 50th Anniversary 2011 Calendar" from MAD #507 (February 2011), pencils an inks by Antonio Prohias
So those are the calendars I've got for ya in this year of fun, 2022. But say, what if you don't follow the Gregorian Calendar (odd, but okay) and you want a wall chart that's more stellar than that! Well, feast your science-denyin' eyes on the perfect calendar for you, this year's only Sergio Aragonés almanac: The Room 13 Horrorscope!


from House of Mystery #227 (DC, October 1974), pencils and inks by Sergio Aragonés, letters by Ben Oda
That should cover everybody, except maybe those conspiracy-theory decimal calendar people. But for all the rest of you: pick yourself a calendar and have a great 2022! And remember to come back on each 1st for new monthly calendars!