Today in Comics History, March 25: Happy birthday, Paul Michael Glaser!

Born on this date: actor, director, and writer Paul Michael Glaser, who's been in Fiddler on the Roof, Butterflies Are Free, The Great Houdini, Princess Daisy and more. He's directed The Running Man, The Air Up There, Band of the Hand, Kazaam, episodes of Miami Vice and more, but he'll always have a place in our seventies-fond hearts as Detective Dave Starsky (face it, how many of you actually knew his first name? Or that he's the dark-haired one?) in the 1970s TV action series Starsky & Hutch!



from "Slobsky & Hunch" Crazy Magazine #21 (Marvel, November 1976), script by Len Herman, pencils and inks by Murad Gümen



"Slobsky & Hunch?" "Slobsky & Hunch?!?" How much lazier can you get with a parody title? Man, I expected better from Crazy, America's fourth-most popular humor magazine, but maybe we should wander over to the Usual Assortment of Idiots and see how pros do it over at MAD!



from "Harsky & Stutch" in MAD #185 (September 1976), script by Lou Silverstone, pencils and inks by Angelo Torres
Oh man, never mind.

Happy birthday, Paul Michael! Drive on.


from Simpsons Comics #175 (Bongo, February 2011), script by Ian Boothby, pencils by John Costanza, inks by Phyllis Novin, colors by Art Villanueva, letters by Karen Bates