Thursday, October 12, 2023

Today in Comics History, October 12: Happy birthday, Barbara Johnston!

Born on this day: Marvel Age designer Barbara Johnston!


from Marvel Age #58 (Marvel, January 1988), text by Mike Carlin, pencils and inks by Ron Zalme, colors by Paul Becton




Which one of these dueling biographies of Barbara a you going to believe?



from (top) Marvel Age #46 (Marvel, January 1987);
(bottom)Marvel/New Universe Comics cover-dated July 1987

Happy birthday, Barbara!


from Marvel Age #35 (Marvel, February 1986)

1 comment:

Blam said...

Hmm… She changed the color of her hair and ditched an earring between those two bios, which I’m pretty sure means she was the Walrus.