Today in Comics History, August 20: Happy birthday, Jacqueline Susann!

Born on this day in 1918: novelist Jacqueline Susann, author of books like Valley of the Dolls, The Love Machine, Once Is Not Enough, and other novels that truly put her at the forefront of twentieth-century literature as one of the giants.




from "Valley of the Dollars" in MAD #121 (September 1968), script by Larry Siegel, pencils and inks by Mort Drucker
Happy birthday, Jacqueline! Hang on, I'll throw away all those Tic-Tacs you dropped.


from Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (Paramount, 1986), directed by Leonard Nimoy