Today in Comics History, August 27: Happy birthday, Ilya Salkind!

Born on this day: film and movie producer Ilya Salkind, co-producer of the first three Christopher Reeve Superman movies and Supergirl, and the 1973 Three/Four Musketeers films!


from Fifty Who Made DC Great one-shot (DC, 1985)
Happy birthday, Ilya! And thanks for not being involved with The Quest for Peace!



from (top) DC Comics cover-dated August 1978;
(bottom)All-New Collectors' Edition #C-62 [Superman: the Movie] (DC, March 1979)