Today in Comics History, April 2, 1860: What, you mean he's gonna miss St. Joseph's annual bath night?

from "Riders of the Plains: The Pony Express!" in Real Life Comics #46 (Pines, November 1948), creators uncredited and unknown

Today in Comics History, April 2, 1848: Evil Dr. Sam Beckett vows to screw up what once went right

from The New Golden Age #1 (one-shot) (DC, January 2023); script by Geoff Johns; pencils, inks, and colors by a whole lotta guys; letters by Rob Leigh

Today in Comics History, April 2: Happy birthday, Todd Nauck!

A very happy birthday today to comics artist and writer Todd Nauck, artist on Badrock and Co., New Men, Supreme, Youngblood, Team Youngblood, Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man, 52, Young Justice, Teen Titans, Teen Titans Go!, Legion of Super-Heroes, Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Comic and much more, plus writing and drawing his own creation, Image's Wildguard!


from Bloodwulf #2 (Image, March 1995)
Here's only the hand of Todd Nauck!


from "Marvel Legacy Primer Pages" in Spider-Man/Deadpool #23 (Marvel, January 2018), script by Robbie Thompson, pencils and inks by Todd Nauck, colors by Jim Campbell, letters by Joe Sabino
Here's kinda-chibi Todd Nauck!


from Teen Titans Go! #18 (DC, June 2005), script by J. Torres, pencils by Todd Nauck, inks by Lary Stucker, colors by Heroic Age, letters by Nick J. Napolitano
Happy birthday, Todd!

Today in Comics History, April 2, 1917: Death of Snoopy

from "Red Knight!" in Two-Fisted Tales #29 (EC, September 1952), script by Harvey Kurtzman, pencils and inks by John Severin, colors by Marie Severin, letters by Ben Oda

Today in Comics History, April 2, 1972: US Army takes hunting for chocolate eggs very seriously

from The 'Nam #72 (Marvel, September 1992), script by Don Lomax, pencils and inks by Wayne Vansant, colors by John Kalisz, letters by Phil Felix

Today in Comics History, April 2: Dad-murder finally justified

from The Perry Bible Fellowship, by Nicholas Gurewitch

Today in Comics History, April 2, 1917: Peace achieved through greater war

from "The Life of Woodrow Wilson" in Real Life Comics #2 (Pines, December 1941), letters by Ed Hamilton

Today in Comics History, April 2, 1915 and 1936: Nero Wolfe Explains It All

from Nero Wolfe: The Red Box graphic novel [scanlation of Collectie Detective Comics v.17: De rode doos] (Claude Lefrancq Editeur (Netherlands), April 1992), script by Jean-Claude de la Royère, adapted from the novel by Rex Stout, pencils and inks by Phillipe Wurm, colors by Kate
Wait, your wife died the day the baby was born or your baby died? Either way, which one of them was two on that day? Oh, but this seems like kind of a sensitive matter...do you want us to come back later?

Meanwhile, twenty-one years later...



Surely this will be an impossible case for Wolfe to crack, and


Oh, it's the old "Masquerade As a Dead Baby for 21 Years" con game. But that trick never works!

Well, that about wraps up the Mystery of the Red Box.

Today in Comics History, April 2, 1865: Arby's is invented

from "General U. S. Grant" in Real Life Comics #6 (Pines, July 1942), pencils by Maurice Gutwirth

Today in Comics History, April 2, 2003: Wow, they are serious about their parking spaces

from Combat Zone: True Tales of GIs in Iraq graphic novel (Marvel, April 2005), script by Karl Zinsmeister, pencils by Dan Jurgens, inks by Sandu Florea, colors by Raul Trevino, letters by Virtual Calligraphy

Today in Comics History, April 2, 1941: Roy Thomas Loot Crate debuts

from Doomsday Clock #8 (DC, February 2019), script by Geoff Johns, pencils and inks by Gary Frank, colors by Brad Anderson, letters by Rob Leigh

Today in Comics History: Wild West Nick Fury is really in a rush somewhere

from Back to the Future: Citizen Brown #5 (IDW, September 2016), script by Eric Burnham, pencils by Alan Robinson, inks by Alan Robinson and Jaime Castro, colors by Maria Santaolalla, letters by Shawn Lee
Say, where are Marty and the Doc (They're Marty and the Doc! Yes, Marty and the Doc! That one's a doc / The other's Michael J. Foc...s.)? We'll find out tomorrow! (Or, if you have a time machine, right now.)

Today in Comics History, April 2, 2014: The City Bugle turned into Craigslist so gradually we didn't even notice

cover of Henchmen, Inc. #1 (Monkeybrain, April 2014); cover art by Garrett Warren

Today in Comics History, April 2, 2011: The New York Times forgets that columns exist

from Translucid #3 (Boom!, June 2014), script by Claudio Sanchez and Chondra Echert, pencils and inks by Daniel Bayliss, colors by Adam Metcalfe, letters by Ed Dukeshire

Today in Comics History, April 2: How Clark Kent won his third Pulitzer

from "Whatever Happened to Superman?" in Action Comics #428 (DC, October 1973), script by Cary Bates, pencils by Curt Swan, inks by Murphy Anderson