Comics Calendars for 2022: No-Nonsense November

As Mariah Carey casts off her sexy witch costume (no peekin') and puts on her fur-trimmed Santa's elf micromini, it's time to declare welcome to November, the calendar's only month dedicated to Richard Rider, the original Nova! Actually, the massive unabridged Oxford English Dictionary dictionary on my shelf tells me that A) the word is taken from the world "nine" for "ninth month" in this...eleventh month, and B) no way am I getting this big-ass book back up on the top shelf until John and Randi come home to help.

So what's in November that we have to celebrate besides stuffing outself stupid in three weeks and two days (uh, not that I'm counting down or anything)? Why, 'tis the month of Doctor Strange's Birthday! Happy b-day, Steve-O! Please blow out your birthday cake candles. Don't listen to the snakes telling you it would be fun to put your face in them. We're gonna celebrate his birthday it right now instead of on the actual date under a "Today in Comics History" tag, because we don't know the exact day in November he was born. Dang these eroded gravestones!

Also: sorry, Doc; forgot to celebrate your death last month.




from Doctor Strange (1968 series) #176 (Marvel, January 1969), script by Roy Thomas, pencils by Gene Colan, inks and colors by Tom Palmer, letters by Herb Cooper
A great cover deserves a second lookin' at — in pencils and inks! Take it away, Messrs. Colan and Palmer:


But if it's a November calendar you're needin', well, then about about this LexCorp Snappable (by Superman) Tools girlie calendar, suitable for putting up on the wall of your greasemonkey garage or man cave. WHOA, Miss Lane! Didn't know ya posed for these things.


from Doom Patrol (1987 series) #5 (DC, February 1988), script by Paul Kupperberg, pencils by Steve Lightle, inks by Gary Martin, colors by Carl Gafford, letters by Janice Chiang
All right, all right, if it's a sexy wall calendar you can use for November 2022 that you want, nobody can beat the back cover of The Human Target, where spandex gets a real strrrrretch!:


from The Human Target (2022 series) #1 (DC/Black Label, January 2022), art by Greg Smallwood
So what if it only goes down to the 19th? Who's lookin' at the dates?!?

Oh, okay, since you're my pals, stay tuned for more poses on comics calendars you can actrually use this month of November 2022. I'll...I'll just be right here for a few more minutes.