Bully Says: Comics Oughta Be Fun!: Today in Comics History, June 9: Happy birthday, Robert Cummings!

Born on this day in 1910: film and TV actor Robert Cummings (Kings Row, Saboteur, Dial M for Murder, The Devil and Miss Jones, The Bob Cummings Show, and others)!

'She got water-skiing on my motion picture!' 'Well, you got motion picture on my water-skiing!'

'She got water-skiing on my motion picture!' 'Well, you got motion picture on my water-skiing!'

'So Bob, you do realize that by allowing us to place your image in a DC comic book, you now belong to us and we can wipe out your entire world in the next Crisis?' 'Sure, I...what?!?'

from Miss Beverly Hills of Hollywood #4 (DC, September 1949), pencils and inks by Bob Oksner
As good pal Andrew Weiss, paragon of pop culture, pointed out to me, Bob also starred alongside future Catwoman Julie Newmar in the 1964 CBS comedy My Living Doll, "a show that paralleled the Doc Magnus/Platinum relationship," Andrew says.

So, THIS was second-wave feminism?

Say!

'Yep, that's me, pretty much. Bob Cummings, nice to meet ya.'

As the original Professor Henry higgins!

"Cue to Cummings" in Sweet Sixteen #12 (Parents' Magazine Press, December 1947), text by Kay Deane"
How popular is Bob Cummings? So popular that even Batman is a fan!

'Golly, Batman, I didn't know you watched films like that' 'AND Miss Jones, Robin. AND.'

'Golly, Batman, I didn't know you watched films like that' 'AND Miss Jones, Robin. AND.'

from All-Star Squadron Annual #3 (DC, September 1984), script by Roy Thomas, pencils by Don Newton, inks by Mike Machlan, colors by Gene D'Angelo, letters by David Cody Weiss and L. Lois Buhalis
Happy birthday, Bob!

Thursday, June 09, 2022

Today in Comics History, June 9: Happy birthday, Robert Cummings!

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