Saturday, September 23, 2023

Today in Comics History, September 23: Happy birthday, Paul Ryan!

Born today in 1949: comic book artist Paul Ryan (Fantastic Four, Fantastic Five, D.P. 7, The Flash, Iron Man, The Amazing Spider-Man, The Phantom comic strip, The Amazing Spider-Man Sunday comic strip, various Superman and Batman titles, The Avengers, Maximum Security and many more)! How great is Paul Ryan? So great he got two different Marvel Pro Files!



(top) from Marvel/New Universe comics cover-dated January 1988;
(bottom) Marvel Age #93 (Marvel, October 1990)

Now for birthday party games: seek and find Paul Ryan in the crowd at the El/Lane nuptial event below!:



from Superman: The Wedding Album one-shot (DC, December 1996), pencils by Dan Jurgens, inks by Jerry Ordway, colors by Glenn Whitmore, letters by Bill Oakley
Click top picture to honeymoon-size

Happy birthday to you, Paul!

3 comments:

joecab said...

Is he the one related to John Byrne somehow?

Bully said...

@joecab: Are you thinking of Kieron Dwyer? He was Byrne's stepson.

joecab said...

Oops! Right you are! Thanks for correcting me.