Today in Comics History April 27: Happy birthday, Enos Slaughter!

Man, talk about a name, huh? When you wish Enos Slaughter (born today in 1916) a happy birthday today, better not giggle and call him Enos, but instead his preferred nickname, "Country," which is a heck of a lot cooler, especially teamed up with surname "Slaughter," which makes him The Punisher's favorite baseball player. (A ten-time All-Star, he's in both the Baseball Hall of Fame and St. Louis Cardinals Hall of Fame!)


"It's in the Cards for '53" from Home Run #3 (Magazine Enterprises, 1953), pencils and inks by Bob Powell



Here's how to perform one of his trickiest plays from the 1946 World Series. If you weren't able to do it too, you just weren't reading closely enough.



from "Famous Split-Seconds in Sports" in Jack Armstrong #1 (Parents' Magazine Institute, November 1947), script and art by Phil Berube (?)
How'd he get that good? Why, surely you know teh answers by now...he ate his Wheaties!


Wheaties advertisement from DC Comics cover-dated May 1947
Happy birthday, Country! I mean, ahem, Mr. Slaughter.