Today in Comics History, December 10, 1984: The band Saga would like to assure you that they were based upon a true story

from Hot Valley Days and Cocaine Nights #3 (Antarctic, February 2021), script by Matthew Spradlin, pencils and inks by Farid Karami, colors by Andrew Crossley

Today in Comics History, December 10, 1950: Chinese Army marches hundreds of miles to put to shame you soft, Imperialistic, shopping American pig-dogs

from "Link-Up!" in Two-Fisted Tales (1950 series) #26 (EC, March 1952), script by Harvey Kurtzman, pencils by John Severin, inks by Will Elder, colors by Marie Severin, letters by Ben Oda

Today in Comics History, December 10, 1918: Worst Pacific Princess cruise ever

from The Stretcher Bearers (Naval Institute Press/Dead Reckoning, April 2022), co-script and art by Reid Beaman, co-script and letters by Ryan Beaman

Today in Comics History, December 10, 1942: "So you say these two machine guns were abandoned, Botcher?" "Abandoned...by the guys we shot, yes sir."

from "Fighting Back in New Guinea" in Combat (1961 series) #8 (Dell, April 1963), script by Paul S. Newman, pencils and inks by Sam Glanzman

Today in Comics History, December 10, 1941: Nazis and Mayans? Oh, not that old cliché again!

from All-Star Squadron #6 (DC, February 1982), script by Roy Thomas, pencils by Adrian Gonzales, inks by Jerry Ordway, colors by Carl Gafford, letters by Ben Oda

Today in Comics History, December 10, 1941, Dawn: US Military develops a meat grinder that can scream "AIR RAID" when you run a pig through it

from "The Hop Harrigan Quarterly Award for Flying Heroism: Meyer Levin" in Comic Cavalcade #3 (DC/All-American, Summer 1943), creators uncredited and unknown

Today in Comics History, December 10, 1996: Follow-up to Dark Reign is published, marred by terrible typo

from Daily Bugle #3 (February 1997); script by Paul Grist; pencils by Karl Kerschl; inks by Greg Adams, Al Milgrom, and Chris Ivy; letters by Sue Crespi and John Constanza
But: you'll notice the page actually says


I could sit here and point fingers all day at Kang or the Time Trapper, but fact is it's actually just a typo in the above page, and you can blame it on Marvel, somehow, although they didn't even bother to correct it for the trade. It should read "December 10," to follow on from the front cover, which was dated December 8.




Who says this isn't the Mighty Marvel Age of flubs and flops? Me. I didn't say that.

Today in Comics History Future, December 10, 2994: Cops is filmed on location with the Science Police, the men and women and beings of Neo-Metropolis

text page from Legion of Super-Heroes (1989 series) #12 (DC, October 1990); script by Keith Giffen, Tom Bierbaum, and Mary Bierbaum, with an assist by Al Gordon