Today in Comics History, November 22: Happy birthday, George Eliot!

Born on this day in 1819: rugged he-man ultra-masculine writer George Eliot, the guy who wrote such manly testosterone-filled adventure tales as Silas Marner, Middlemarch and The Mill on the Floss!


covers of Classics Illustrated #55 (Gilberton, January 1949), (L) art by Henry Kiefer, and (R) artist unknown
Oh. I seem to have made another one of my silly mistakes.


from Classics Illustrated #55; creators uncredited and unknown
Anyway, happy birthday to you, George Eliot, ya big lug, you! Slam a couple beers for me!




from "Alias George Eliot" in Real Life Comics #47 (Pines, February 1949), scripter and artists uncredited and unknown, letters by Ed Hamilton