Today in Comics History, March 5: Happy birthday, Dean Stockwell!

Born on this day in 1936: Dean Stockwell, film, television and stage actor with a career spanning over 70 years. (Wow!) From child actor roles in Abbott and Costello in Hollywood, Song of the Thin Man (he was Nick Charles, Jr.!) and The Boy with Green Hair, to his later appearances in Long Day's Journey into Night, The Dunwich Horror, Paris, Texas, Dune, Blue Velvet, Married to the Mob and Air Force One, Dean pretty much kept working from 1945 to 2014! His TV roles include The Tony Danza Show, JAG, Battlestar Galactica, as Admiral Al Calavicci in the cult favorite Quantum Leap, and an episode of Star Trek: Enterprise alongside Quantum Leap co-star Scott Bakula. Stockwell's represented in the comics by his characters, but he's not always done favors by his likenesses in the artwork:




from Battlestar Galactica: Gods & Monsters #4 (Dynamite, February 2017), script by Karl Kesel, pencils and inks by Dan Schkade, colors by Chris O'Halloran, letters by Tom Napolitano
Scott Bakula is especially kinda ill-served by this cover, tho' the interior likeness of him and Stockwell are cleaner:




from Quantum Leap #9 (Innovation, February 1993), cover: painting by C. W. Taylor; interior: script by Andy Mangels, pencils and inks by Deodato Borges (Mike Deodato, Sr.), colors by Scott Rockwell, letters by Vickie Williams
Happy birthday, Dean Stockwell!


from The Incredible Hulk (1968 series) #386 (Marvel, October 1991), script by Peter David, pencils by Dale Keown, inks by Mark Farmer, colors by Glynis Oliver, letters by Joe Rosen