Today in Comics History, December 21, 2016: Extremely Weird DC Team-Up debuts

from "Dreaming of a White Christmas" in DC Rebirth Holiday Special one-shot (DC, February 2017), script by Mariko Tamaki, pencils and inks by Matías Bergara, colors by Nanjan Jamberi, letters by Josh Reed

Today in Comics History, December 21, 1937: Small animation start-up will never go anywhere

from Comic Book History of Animation #4 (IDW, December 2020); script by Fred Van Lente; pencils, inks, and letters by Ryan Dunlavey; colors by Adam Guzowski


from Comic Book Comics #1 (Evil Twin, March 2008); script by Fred Van Lente, pencils, inks, and letters by Ryan Dunlavey

Today in Comics History, December 21, 1762: National Lampoon™'s James Boswell™'s Vacation™

from "Excerpts from Boswell's London Journal 1762-1763" in Weirdo #3 (Last Gasp, Fall 1981), by Robert Crumb

Today in Comics History, December 21, 1620: This is the America we lost

from You Are Deadpool #5 (Marvel, July 2018); script by Al Ewing, pencils and inks by Salva Espin, colors by GURU-eFX, letters by Joe Sabino

Today in Comics History, December 21: Just once, Cap wishes Jarvis would bring him a beer

from Vision and the Scarlet Witch (1985 series) #7 (Marvel, April 1986), script by Steve Englehart, pencils by Richard Howell, inks by Frank Springer, colors by Adam Philips, letters by Bill Oakley

Today in Comics History, December 21: Batman's speech balloons cunningly placed to conveniently hide which year it is

from Detective Comics #1019 (DC, March 2020), script by Peter J. Tomasi, pencils and inks by Scott Godlewski, colors by David Baron, letters by Rob Leigh

Today in Comics History, December 21, 1963: Ho ho oh boy

from Quantum Leap #3 (Innovation, March 1992), script by John Holland, art by Andy Price, colors by Scott Rockwell, color assist by Chris Ballard, letters by Vickie Williams

Today in Comics History, December 21, 1801: Santa's White Beard: What It Is and How It Came to Be

from Manifest Destiny #19 (Image, May 2016), script by Chris Dingess, pencils by Matthew Roberts, inks by Tony Akins and Stefano Gaudiano, colors by Owen Gieni, letters by Pat Brosseau

Today in Comics History, December 21: Happy birthday, Chip Zdarsky!

BoTD: comics artist, writer, and designer Chip Zdarsky (Howard the Duck, Daredevil, Peter Parker, Batman, Jughead, Sex Criminals and much more)!





variant "How to Draw" covers for Marvel Comics cover-dated December 2017, by Chip Zdarsky

Today in Comics History, December 21: Well, at least today has got that going for it

from Devil's Highway #5 (AWA/Upshot, November 2020), script by Benjamin Percy, pencils and inks by Brent Schoonover, colors by Nick Filardi, letters by Sal Cipriano

Today in Comics History, December 21, 1984: Happy Dunkiversary, Georgeann Wells!

Today's the anniversary of the day All-American basketball player Georgeann Wells from West Virginia University became the first American woman to successfully and officially dunk a ball in an official NCAA intercollegiate basketball game regulation-sized ("men's") b-ball!


from "Moose's Odd and Amazing Sports Reports" in Archie #515 (Archie, December 2001), script by Mike Pellowski, pencils by Rex Lindsey
Wells was a four-year letter winner, scoring 1,484 points and pulling down 1,075 rebounds. Her 436 blocked shots is the all-time record for women at WVU! And she toured with the Harlem Globetrotters! Tho' there's no specific confirmation whether or not she was a Super Globetrotter.


preview clip of The Super Globetrotters (Hanna-Barbera, 1979)
Happy Dunkiversary, Georgeann!

Today in Comics History, December 21, 1879: First appearance of Iron Man

from "Red Raid" in Captain America: Red, White & Blue one-shot (Marvel, September 2002), script by Yann Lepennetier, pencils and inks by Philippe Berthet, colors by Nick Bertozzi, letters by Dave Sharpe

Today in Comics History, December 21: Happy birthday, Ben Oda!

Born on this day in 1915: the great Ben Oda, longtime comics letterer at DC, EC, and many other houses! His distinctive lettering style enchanced thousands of comics, ncluding Detective Comics and Batman, Action Comics and Superman, Wonder Woman, The Flash, Green Lantern, Four Color, Baris Karloff Tales of Mystery, The Twilight Zone, Eerie, Vampirella, MAD, the Super DC Calendars, and hundreds more!


"DC Profiles #59" from DC Comics cover-dated February 1980

Today in Comics History, December 21, 1942: Plane descends so fast it dive-bombs lower panel

from "Girl Commandos Outwit Ratzis" in Plane descends so fast it dive-bombs lower panel Speed Comics #25 (Harvey, February 1943), pencils and inks by Jill Elgin (?)

Today in Comics History, December 21, 1963: New hexagonal moon does not test well in English suburbia

from "Sympathy for the Devil" in 2000 AD Prog 873 (Fleetway, 4 February 1994), script by Alan McKenzie, art by Steve Parkhouse and Nick Abadzis and (Gina?) Hart, letters by Steve Parkhouse

Today in Comics History, December 21, 2049: Xiaolian does more by 9 AM on Winter Solstice than you do all day

from East of West #5 (Image, August 2013), script by Jonathan Hickman, pencils and inks by Nick Dragotta, colors by Frank Martin, letters by Rus Wooton

Today in Comics History, December 21, 2005: zMail is invented

from Hellblazer #214 (DC/Vertigo, January 2006), script by Mike Carey, pencils and inks by Leonardo Manco, colors by Lee Loughridge, letters by Jared K. Fletcher

Today in Comics History, December 21, 2012: You Were Suckered

from Futurama Comics #60 (Bongo, March 2012), script by Ian Boothby, pencils by James Lloyd, inks by Dan Davis, colors by Robert Stanley, letters by Karen Bates

Today in Comics History, December 21, 2012: Oh, so maybe it's next year. Never mind.

from Batman: Book of the Dead #1 (DC, June 1999), script by Doug Moench, pencils by Barry Kitson, inks by Ray McCarthy, colors by Dave Stewart, letters by Kurt Hathaway

Today in Comics History, December 21: Gotham City's budget crisis forces postponement of Hanukkah to December 21

from Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight #126 (DC, February 2000), script by Greg Rucka and Devin Grayson, pencils by Damien Scott and Dale Eaglesham, inks by John Floyd, colors by Pamela Rambo, color separations by Wildstorm FX, letters by Willie Schubert