Saturday, July 23, 2022

Today in Comics History, July 23, 1985: The tragedy of superhero weddings: having Doiby Dickles as your best man

Today is the wedding anniversary of Alan Scott (Green Lantern) and Molly Mayne (the Harlequin, not to be confused with Harley Quinn, who would probably hit GL with a big wooden mallet)! Did you send them a gift? I sent them a toaster from Macy's, and then it got erased in Crisis. The saddest death in Crisis on Infinite Earth: that poor toaster.



from Infinity Inc. Annual #1 (DC, December 1985); script by Roy Thomas and Dann Thomas; pencils by Ron Harris, inks by Dick Giordano, Alfredo Alcala, Richard Howell, and Tony DeZuniga; colors by Adrienne Roy and Anthony Tollin; letters by David Cody Weiss

The complainers will yell that "you couldn't publish this story today!" No, DC could publish it, but since Post-Rebirth Alan Scott is now gay, he gets married to Wildcat.

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