Wednesday, January 19, 2022

Today in Comics History, January 19: Happy birthday, Joe Staton!

Born on this day: comics writer and artist Joe Staton. He's known for his work on (among others) E-Man, Scooby-Doo, Doom Patrol, American Flagg!, Green Lantern, Tales of the Green Lantern Corps, Guy Gardner, DC Comics Presents, Superboy and the Legion of Super-Heroes, Action Comics, as well as the co-creator of the E-Man, Huntress II, Huntress III, and the Omega Men, and a near-ten year stint on the Dick Tracy comic strip! Whew! here's some more of his achievements:


from DC Comics cover-dated November 1979

My very first Charlton Comic was an issue of E-Man, so I've been a big fan of Joe's work from early on in my comics readin' and collectin' career.


house ad from First Comics cover-dated March 1984

And I've enjoyed Joe's artwork over the past decade as he and Mike Curtis (and these other good folks) brought a new vibrance and energy to the long-running Dick Tracy strip. Joe's in the brown jacket and yellow shirt below.


Dick Tracy syndicated comic strip (Tribune Content Agency, October 24, 2021), script by Mike Curtis, pencils by Joe Staton, inks and letters by Shelly Pleger (now the main artist on the strip!), colors by Shane Fisher

Happy birthday, Joe!

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3 comments:

  1. Blam2/03/2022 8:51 AM

    I think you mean "Huntress II" and "Huntress III". The original Huntress was the villain introduced in 1974 who later married Sportsmaster. And the future Mockingbird debuted as The Huntress at Marvel about 18 months before DC repurposed the name for Batman's daughter in 1977. So maybe you're better off saying "Huntress (Helena Wayne)" and "Huntress (Helena Bertinelli)". None of which makes Joe Staton or E-Man any less terrific...

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  2. Bully2/03/2022 2:34 PM

    Oh man, I mislaid a Huntress. Thanks, Blam!

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  3. Blam2/03/2022 3:12 PM

    Geez. Here I am correcting you and I typo'd "1974" for 1947.

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