Thursday, June 01, 2023

Today in Comics History, June 1: Happy birthday, Tom Holland!

Let's wish a happy birthday to English (yeah, English!) actor Tom Holland of Billy Elliot: The Musical, Wolf Hall, The Impossible, How I Live Now, and of course as Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man in the Marvel Cinematic Universe!

Which means it oughta be easy to spot Tom's youthful, handsome face unmasked on the photo covers of every MCU Spider-Man adaptation, like, say, his first big solo movie Spider-Man: Homecoming (all about him letting himself in his apartment and apologizing to Aunt May for being a little late for dinner):


from Spider-Man: Homecoming Prelude #1-2 (May-June 2017)

Well, since that was actually a Captain America/Avengers adaptation, I betcha we see Tom Holland's smiling bare face on the cover of the prelude to his next movie, Spider-Man: Far from Home, in which Aunt May finally allows him to cross Queens Boulevard, but he has to really watch out because that's totally a dangerous intersection:


from Spider-Man: Far from Home Prelude #1-2 (May-June 2019)

Huh. Surely there must be Tom Holland full frontal face on the prelude comic for the third movie, Spider-Man: No Way Home, in which he loses his MetroCard:


Oh wait! Here's his very own comic book and I bet we can find a portrait of him right here!


cover of Tom Holland's Fright Night #1 one-shot (American Mythology, May 2023), pencils by Neil Vokes, inks by Matt Webb

(cupping my earphone) I'm being told that this is an entirely different Tom Holland. Oh, for cryin' out loud.

Anyway, you're young, Tom Holland: still plenty of time to get onto a comic book or two. Get at it, kid! Happy birthday!

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