Today in Comics History, June 30: Happy birthday, Lena Horne!

Born on this day in 1917: singer (and actress, and dancer, and civil rights activist) Lena Horne, one of the great Black stars of the twentieth century. And comic book star, too!


from Juke Box Comics #5 (Eastern Color, November 1948); text, pencils, inks, and letters by Phil Berube
Lena also received a full story in the pages of Juke Box Comics! Well, it was only three pages, and it was at the back of the book (cough cough), but still...




from Juke Box Comics #2 (Eastern Color, May 1948), pencils and inks by A. C. Hollingsworth
Happy birthday, Miss Horne!


"Stormy Weather" sung by Lena Horne (1943, RCA Victor), written by Harold Arlen and Ted Koehler; from the movie Stormy Weather (natch!) (1943, Fox), story and screenplay by Jerry Horwin, Seymour B. Robinson, Frederick J. Jackson, and H.S. Kraft;, directed by Andrew L. Stone