Today in Comics History, June 22: Happy birthday, Jae Lee!

Born on this day: comics artist Jae Lee (Red Sonja, Batman/Superman, Inhumans, Namor the Sub-Mariner, Turok: Dinosaur Hunter, Darkwing Duck: Negaduck, Wolverine, Before Watchmen: Ozymandias, Django/Zorro and many more)!


from Marvel Knights Sketchbook one-shot (Marvel/Wizard, August 1998), art by Jae Lee
Happy birthday, Jae!


from Battlestar Galactica 1999 Tour Book one-shot (Realm, May 1999), art by Jae Lee

Today in Comics History, June 22, 1956: Tim Hunter proudly strolls through the woods, happy that his creator isn't a terf

from The Dreaming (1996 series) #19 (DC/Vertigo, December 1997), script by Caitlín Kiernan, pencils and inks by Matt Brooker, colors and color separations by Daniel Vozzo, letters by Todd Klein
This post was suggested by faithful reader and frequent commenter Blam, who's provided a lot of date references in comics that I'll spotlight throughout 2023 in this series. Thanks, Blam!

Today in Comics History, June 22, 1938: America's race relation problems are solved by hitting

from "Best Fights of the Century" in Daredevil Comics #68 (Lev Gleason, November 1950), creators uncredited and unknown

Today in Comics History, June 22: Well, that'll happen when your mortal enemy is the Sun

from "Fiend of Midnight" in Adventures into the Unknown #33 (ACG, July 1952), pencils and inks by Paul Gattuso
This post was suggested by faithful reader and frequent commenter Blam, who's provided a lot of date references in comics that I'll spotlight throughout 2024 in this series. Thanks, Blam!

Today in Comics History, June 22: Small town deals with mass amnesia the true American Way: by merchandising it

from Silver Surfer: Ghost Light #1 (Marvel, April 2023), script by John Jennings, art by Valentine De Landro, colors by Matt Milla, letters by Joe Sabino

Today in Comics History, June 21, 1989: Oh, like you've never counted down to a big movie

from Realworlds: Batman one-shot (DC, May 2000), script by Christopher Golden and Tom Sniegoski, pencils by Marshall Rogers, inks by John Cebollero, colors by Dave Stewart, letters by Bob Lappan
And that poster was, of course:

Today in Comics History, June 21, 2003: Then again, he's never seen Supertrain

from Miracleman (1985 series) #24 (Eclipse, June 1993), script by Neil Gaiman, pencils and inks by Mark Buckingham, colors by Matt Brooker as D'Israeli, letters by Wayne Truman
Poor Young Miracleman! History has changed so dramatically they probably never even invented cable.

Now let's look at that same scene, completely redrawn in the Mighty Marvel Manner!


from Miracleman by Gaiman and Buckingham: The Silver Age (2022 series) #2 (Marvel, January 2023), script by Neil Gaiman, new pencils and inks by Mark Buckingham, new colors by Jordie Bellaire, new letters by Todd Klein
Yeah, I don't get the point of doing it that way, either.

Today in Comics History, June 21, First Day of Summer: Superman orders you to break chains or you lose at summer

"Super Strength: Rules for Summer Living" from Superman (1940 series) #5 (DC/Superman Inc., Summer 1940), script by Jerry Siegel, Superman= inset by Joe Shuster, pencils and inks by Dennis Neville (?)

Today in Comics History, June 21, 1952: Willie Mays performs such awesome baseball feats that mere artwork cannot portray it

from "Say Hey Kid in Action" in The Amazing Willie Mays one-shot (Eastern Color, September 1954), creators uncredited and unknown
Rest in peace, Willie Mays.

(Don't worry fans, there's many more panels to come from this same comic!)

Today in Comics History, June 21, 1805: River turns into M. F. Enterprises's Captain Marvel

from Manifest Destiny #42 (Image, March 2020), script by Chris Dingess, pencils and inks by Matthew Roberts, colors by Owen Gieni, letters by Pat Brosseau

Today in Comics History, June 21, 1950: Goodyear Blimp springs a leak and goes zooming across night sky

from "The 1950 Hamilton Air Force Base, California Case" in Weird Science-Fantasy (1954 series) #26 (EC, December 1954), script by Al Feldstein, pencils and inks by George Evans, colors by Marie Severin, letters by Jim Wroten