Today in Comics History, November 22, 1940: Geoff Johns Ruins Everything

from Doomsday Clock #7 (DC, November 2018), script by Geoff Johns, art by Gary Frank, design by Amie Brockway-Metcalf, colors by Brad Anderson, letters by Rob Leigh
...which, thanks to Geoff Johns' fetish for giving dates to historical but vague DC events, means that this happened today.



from All-Star Comics #3 (DC/All-American, Winter 1940), script by Gardner Fox, pencils and inks by E. E. Hibbard, aditional dialogue by yours little stuffed truly
So thanks, I guess, Geoff Johns, for making it canon that the first meeting of the Justice Society of America was on November 22, 1940. (Which was not Thanksgiving, but the Friday before it.)

Today in Comics History, May 24: Happy birthday, Carmine Infantino!

Born today in 1925: legendary comics artist, editor, and publisher Carmine Infantino, who co-created Batgirl, The Flash (Barry Allen and Wally West), Black Canary, Animal Man, Bat Lash, Phantom Stranger, Deadman, and more! He's drawn pretty much everybody in books like Detective Comics and Batman, Star Wars, Adventure Comics, The Avengers, Mystery in Space, Spider-Woman, The Brave and the Bold, Iron Man, Green Lantern, Nova, Phantom Stranger, Daredevil, and so much more!


from Fifty Who Made DC Great one-shot (DC, 1985)

365 Days of DC House Ads, Day 299: Jehovah's Witnesses?

House ad for DC Special #11 [Monsters] (March-April 1971); printed in World's Finest Comics #201 (March 1971)
Ad art by Sergio Aragonés; letters by Gaspar Saladino


Cover of DC Special #11 [Monsters] (March-April 1971), pencils and inks by Neal Adams

365 Days of DC House Ads, Day 286: Say, why isn't this issue #13?

House ad for DC Special #4 (July-September 1969); printed in Windy and Willy #2 (July-August 1969)
Comic cover art: pencils and inks by Neal Adams, letters by Gaspar Saladino
Ad designed and lettered by Gaspar Saladino

365 Days of DC House Ads, Day 226: Yo, Joe!

House ad for DC Special #5 (October-December 1969); printed in Green Lantern #72 (October 1969)
Ad designed and lettered by Gaspar Saladino
Sadly I don't have this amazing-looking issue spotlighting the late, great Joe Kubert:


Cover of DC Special #5 (October-December 1969); pencils, inks, and cover appearance by Joe Kubert
...so I don't know how Joe can become the world's greatest super heroes. But if it's half as wonderful as this issue of The Brave and the Bold where Jim Aparo saves Batman and Sgt. Rock by drawing their comic book...


Cover of The Brave and the Bold (1955 series) #124 (January 1976), pencils and inks by Jim Aparo
...well, then, DC Special #5 must be very special indeed.

365 Days of DC House Ads, Day 218: I demand you bring back Sugar and Spike

House ad for DC Special #1 (October-December 1968) and World's Finest Comics #179 (November 1968); printed in The Atom and Hawkman #39 (October-December 1968)

Comic cover art: DC Special: pencils and inks by Carmine Infantino
World's Finest: Superman and Batman framing figures pencils and inks by Neal Adams; World's Finest #96: pencils by Curt Swan, inks by Stan Kaye, letters by Ira Schnapp; Superman #76: pencils and inks by Win Mortimer

Ad designed and lettered by Gaspar Saladino

365 Days of DC House Ads, Day 142

House ad for DC Special #4 (July-September 1969); printed in Batman #213 (July-August 1969)
Comic cover art: pencils and inks by Neal Adams, letters by Gaspar Saladino
Ad designed and lettered by Gaspar Saladino

365 Days of DC House Ads, Day 50

House ad for DC Special #7 (April-June 1970); printed in Detective Comics #398 (April 1970)
Comic cover art: pencils and inks by Murphy Anderson, letters by Gaspar Saladino
Ad designed and lettered by Gaspar Saladino

365 Days of DC House Ads, Day 44

House ad for DC Special #3 (April-June 1969) and The Flash #187 (April-May 1969);
printed in Falling in Love #106 (April 1969)
Comic cover art: DC Special #3: pencils by Neal Adams, inks by Nick Cardy, letters by Gaspar Saladino (?);
Flash #187: pencils by Ross Andru, inks by Mike Esposito, letters by Gaspar Saladino
Ad designed and lettered by Gaspar Saladino

366 Days with Alfred Pennyworth, Day 27

Panels from DC Special Series #27 [Batman vs. The Incredible Hulk] (Fall 1981 ), script by Len Wein, pencils by José Luis Garcia-Lopez, inks by Dick Giordano, colors by Glynis Wein, letters by John Costanza

Ads from the Distinguished Competition, Day 4: Batman really needs to write these cases down someday

Ad for DC Special #6 (January-March 1970) and Batman #218 (January-February 1970) in Detective Comics #395 (January 1970)