Face It Tiger February, Day 7: Wow, Tony Stark looks great. Oh wait, that's not Tony.

from Challengers of the Unknown (1991 series) #3 (DC, May 1991), script by Jeph Loeb, pencils and inks by Tim Sale, colors by Lovern Kindzierski, letters by Bob Pinaha

Today in Comics History, June 12, 1991: Multi-Man has the last laugh by stealing horoscopes from beyond the grave

from Challengers of the Unknown (1991 series) #8 (DC, October 1991), script by Jeph Loeb, pencils and inks by Tim Sale, colors by Lovern Kindzierski, letters by Bob Pinaha

Let's take a moment to point out that YOU ARE WRONG.

Hey, guy calling David Mazzucchelli's artwork in Batman: Year One "atrocious...trash...****..."


From the letter column of Batman #408 (June 1987)

YOU ARE WRONG

Tom Jones (from Scotland, not the more famous Tom Jones from Wales) thinks the art of Bob Brown is better than Jack Kirby:


From the letter column of Challengers of the Unknown #36 (February-March 1964)

YOU ARE WRONG

Here's a reader who appears to think Cable>Doop.


From the letter column of X-Statix #10 (June 2003)

YOU ARE WRONG

Guy who wrote into Starlog thinking he's being all clever about Alien:


From the letter column of Starlog #29 (December 1979)

YOU ARE WRONG

So, remember:


Panels from "The Malay Penguin!" in Detective Comics #473 (November 1977), script by Steve Englehart, pencils by Marshall Rogers, inks by Terry Austin, colors by Jerry Serpe, letters by Milt Snapinn

YOU ARE WRONG

Today in Comics History: In Soviet Russia, Earth hits you, meteor!

Panel from "Solar System Sizes" non-fiction feature in Challengers of the Unknown #22 (October-November 1961), creators unknown

A Tinny Roman guns for the Challengers of the Unknown

Earlier today, we saw teen heartthrob Tino Mannary, winner of the 1967 Suspicious Name Award, plotting to kill each one of the Challengers of the Unknown! The team that lives on borrowed time! (Also, liver and onions.)


Panel from Challengers of the Unknown #56, (June-July 1967), script by Arnold Drake, pencils and inks by Bob Brown
It's also the issue where the Challengers experience bizarre LSD hallucinations!


Yep, it's the debut of all-around nogoodnik Tino Mannary...whose name is a labored anagram for Martin Ryan, little brother of The Brady Bunch star Robert Ryan the late Challenger of the Unknown Red Ryan! Gasp! Also, his name is an anagram for Yam or Tannin, and I think we all enjoy yams and/or tannin. Yam or tannin! It's what's for dinner.


Still, I keep coming back to this panel featuring Tony Rain Man Tino Mannary's hit list:


Just for fun, I thought, What If™... Yarn Moat Inn Tino Mannary had picked four other famous targets to put on his death-list shortlist! (And I think it would go something like this.)


Or maybe he'd focus in on a quartet that owes absolutely nothing to the Challengers of the Unknown, uh uh, no way, absolutely no influence or inspiration at all, nosiree:


Or maybe he's like to bump off a more radical group of four:


Here's a happy quartet that could in the crosshairs of Any Minor Ant Tino Mannary:


And I think it's about time these four paid for their crimes against humanity:


Here, why don't you try one? Extra credit for using anagrams of "Tino Mannary"!


Here's a last bonus one: Annoy Martin Tino Mannary is out to assassinate rock band Loverboy!


Yes, it's true that Loverboy has not four but five members. But they get a bonus for performing the official theme song of Trainman Yon Tino Mannary! Play us off, Meek Iron Mike Reno, Dual Pane Paul Dean, Good John Sun Doug Johnson, Fart Meet Tent Matt Frenette, and Sire Dean Penknives Ken "Spider" Sinnaeve!

365 Days of DC House Ads, Day 94

House ad for Challengers of the Unknown #56 (June-July 1967); printed in Detective Comics #363 (May 1967)
Comic cover art: pencils and inks by Bob Brown, letters by Ira Schnapp
Ad designed and lettered by Ira Schnapp

Inset art adapted from this interior panel:


Panel from Challengers of the Unknown #56, script by Arnold Drake, pencils and inks by Bob Brown
Nope, that's not Slade Wilson Jr., Kid Deathstroke, but rather Tino Mannary, pop star, super-genius, innovative inventor, racecar driver and business wunderkind! Yep, this guy was Kitty Pryde before Kitty Pryde was Kitty Pryde! All hail the sensational Marty Stu find of 1967: Tino Mannary!



Can't get enough fannery of that wonderful Tino Mannary? Check back later tonight, cats and kittens! (Also: humans.)

365 Days of DC House Ads, Day 82: Go-Go Checks Week, Day 7

Hey, how come there's no introductory Go-Go Checks House Ad for our seventh day? Well, because as far as I can see, there isn't one. I can only find six general Go-Go Checks Ads. So, it looks like DC was fully behind this initiative. (Kids love the Go-Go Checks!)

Anyway, here's one more title-specific Go-Go House Ad!


Go-Go Checks house ad for Doom Patrol #110 (March 1967) and Challengers of the Unknown #55 (April-May 1967), printed in Metamorpho #11 (March-April 1967)

Comic cover art: Doom Patrol #110: pencils and inks by Bruno Premiani, letters by Ira Schnapp
Challengers of the Unknown #55: pencils and inks by Bob Brown, letters by Ira Schnapp

Ads designed and lettered by Ira Schnapp
Go-Go Checks designed by Irwin Donenfeld and Sol Harrison

Well, that'll happen.

Panel from "The Fifth Challenger" in Challengers of the Unknown #30 (February-March 1963), script by Arnold Drake (?), pencils and inks by Bob Brown