Today in Comics History, February 2: Happy birthday, Farrah Fawcett!

Born on this day in 1947: Farrah Fawcett...


cover of Emma #57 (D. C. Thomson, 24 March 1979)



...actress, model, artist, and the 1970s favoritest poster girl, as seen in advertisements in all your better Jimmy Carter-era comic books!


advertisement from DC Comics cover-dated January 1978
As private detective Jill Munroe on the first season of Charlie's Angels, Farrah had a lot of big fans! I mean, some really big fans:


from Marvel Two-in-One (1974 series) #27 (Marvel, May 1977), script by Marv Wolfman, pencils by Ron Wilson, inks by Pablo Marcos, colors by Len Wein, letters by John Costanza
Well, maybe he wasn't that close to her.


from Marvel Two-in-One (1974 series) #45 (Marvel, November 1978), script by Peter B. Gillis, breakdowns by Alan Kupperberg, finishes by Mike Esposito, colors by Phil Rachelson, letters by Michael Higgins
Edit on February 2, 2023: New material printed in green.

We didn't get a Charlie's Angels comic book starring Farrah during the 1970s in the US, but the UK's Look-In published a two-page serialized strip drawn by the great Jim Baikie. Unfortunately (for this feature, at least!), the stories are set during the second season of Charlie's angels, when Cheryl Ladd had replaced Farrah as Jill's sister Kris.


from Look-In v.10 #42 (IPC, 11 October 1980); script by Angus P. Allan; pencils, inks, and colors by Jim Baikie
In the US, though, we had to wait until the new millennium.


cover of Charlie's Angels #1 (Dynamite, June 2018), by Joe Eisma
But she was still stuck in the seventies! The funky-bad seventies.


from Charlie's Angels #1; script by John Layman, pencils and inks by Joe Eisma, colors by Celeste Woods, letters by Taylor Esposito
No salute to Farrah Fawcett would be complete without Earth-C's Fara Foxette, the sexy vixen version of our world's Farrah.


from Captain Carrot and His Amazing Zoo Crew! #12 (DC, February 1983), script and pencils by Scott Shaw!, inks by Al Gordon assisted by Bill Sienkiewicz (!) and Bob Smith, colors by Tom Ziuko, letters by Carrie McCarthy
Special thanks here to Bully commenter Matthew E. of the excellent Legion Abstract who pointed this Captain Carrot appearance out last year, as well as leading me to this alluring and disturbing pin-up from the letters page of the same issue, drawn by a young Arthur Adams!


Happy birthday, Miss Fawcett! Golly, you're tall.