Today in Comics History, April 19, 1943: Doctor experimenting with weird substances had the time right but should have waited one day

from Doom Patrol (1987 series) #50 (DC, December 1991), script by Grant Morrison, pencils and inks by Richard Case, colors by Daniel Vozzo, letters by John Workman

Today in Comics History, April 19: Happy birthday, Whitey Kurowski!

Born today in 1918: George "Whitey" Kurowski, record-breaking Major League third baseman for the St. Louis Cardinals throughout the 1940s! That must be because, as this ad tells us, he ate his Wheaties! (And also because he practiced a lot and was good at baseball.)


advertisement from DC Comics cover-dated September 1947
Happy birthday, Whitey!

Today in Comics History, April 19, 1898: Cast of Mystery Science Theater 1898 threatens to wipe out the Spanish

from "The Spanish American War" in Picture Stories from American History #4 (EC, Summer 1947), script by Jerry Coleman, pencils and inks by Allen Simon

Today in Comics History, April 19, 1775: Silencer not used on gun

from "The Story of the First Shots of the Revolution" in All-American Comics #2 (DC, June June 1945), script by M. C. Gaines and W. W. D. Sones, pencils and inks by Allen Simon

Today in Comics History, April 19: Happy birthday, Mark McKenna!

Born on this day: Mark McKenna, comics writer, artist, inker on such series as The Punisher, X-Men, Spider-Man, Batman, Justice League, OHOTMU/Who's Who, Magnus, L.E.G.I.O.N., Exiles, and more! He's the creator of the Banana Tail kids' series!


from Marvel Age Special: Punisher Anniverary Magazine one-shot (Marvel, February 1994)
Can you find Mark rushin' towards us in a pack of Marvel editors? Hint: he's fit to a "T!"




cover of Marvel Age #35 (Marvel, February 1986) by James Fry and Tom Morgan
Happy birthday, Mark!

Today in Comics History, April 19, 1986: Doc Brown prepares to tell the entire story of all three movies yet again

from Back to the Future (2015 series) #19 (IDW, April 2017), story by John Barber and Bob Gale, script by John Barber, pencils by Marcelo Ferreira, inks by Maria Keane and Athila Fabbio, colors by Jose Luis Rio, letters by Shawn Lee

Today in Comics History, April 19, 1861: Giant green-suited man tramples city

from "Brother Against Brother" in Attack #54 (Charlton, October 1958), script by Joe Gill (?), pencils and inks by Sid Check

Today in Comics History, April 19: Happy birthday, Ambush Bug!

Born on this day in 1962: that fourth-wall breakin' Ambush Bug! Have a great day and say hello to She-Hulk while you're back there, Buggy!


from Ambush Bug #1 (June 1988), plot and pencils by Keith Giffen, script by Robert Fleming, inks by Bob Oksner, colors by Tony Tollin, letters by John Costanza

Today in Comics History, April 19, 1775: Revolutionary soldiers defend their delicious grape jelly

from "At Concord Bridge" in I Am the Guard one-shot (Johnstone & Cushing, November 1960), art by Neal Adams (?!?)

Today in Comics History, April 19: Jean is tremendously excited

from Richard Stark's Parker: The Score (IDW, July 2012); adapted from the novel by Richard Stark; script, pencils, inks, color, and letters by Darwyn Cooke
And, because this is the thing I do, I went looking to see if that Look magazine was accurate for the time. Well...no. Steve McQueen was on the cover, but that was in 1970, not 1964:


And the logo Cooke uses is from the mid-1950s. By '64 the Look logo had evolved into a two-thirds page wide masthead with a sidebar:


But I'm not pokin' fun, no no, at Darwyn Cooke. If anything, I am pointing my finger at Look magazine for not cohering to the Darwyn Cooke design.