Today in Comics History, February 20, 1895: Rest in Power, Frederick Douglass

from Classics Illustrated #169 [Negro Americans: The Early Years] (Gilberton, Spring 1969), pencils and inks by Norman Nodel

Today in Comics History, February 20: Happy birthday, Mike Allred!

Born on this day: Mike Allred, scripter and artist, creator of Madman, Red Rocket 7, and The Atomics, co-creator of X-Statix and iZombie, and artist on some of the World's Most Fun Comics™ ever, including FF, Silver Surfer, Wednesday Comics, Bug!: The Adventures of Forager, X-Ray Robot, Superman: Space Age and much, much more!


from FF (2013 series) #10 (Marvel, September 2013), script by Matt Fraction, pencils & inks by Mike Allred, colors by Laura Allred, letters by Clayton Cowles

Today in Comics History, February 20: Your horoscope for Pisces: You are an aquatic, craniate, gill-bearing animal that lacks limbs with digits

from Sweethearts (1948 series) #73 (Fawcett, March 1949), creators uncredited and unknown

Today in Comics History, January 20, 1977: For some reason I bet they still made Jimmy Carter give up his peanut farm

from Back to the Future: Biff to the Future #4 (IDW, April 2017), co-plot and script by Bob Gale, co-plot by Derek Fridolfs, pencils by Alan Robinson, inks by Alan Robinson and Jaime Castro, colors by Maria Santaolalla, letters by Shawn Lee

Today in Comics History, February 20, 1792: Louis DeJoy vows to have this mail delivered by 2023 at the latest

from "Odd News Items!" in Big Town #29 (DC, September 1954), creators unknown

Today in Comics History, February 20: Happy birthday, Carroll Rheinstrom!

Born on this date in 1904, Carroll Rheinstrom, the first distributor of DC Comics overseas.


from Fifty Who Made DC Great one-shot (DC, 1985)
Happy birthday, Carroll!

Today in Comics History, February 20, 1943: Senator Ted Cruz (bottom, center) Goes to Mexico

from "Peril at Paricutin" in Real Fact Comics #18 (DC, January 1949), script by Jack Schiff, Mort Weisinger, and/or Bernie Breslauer

Today in Comics History, February 20: Batman reads the Twilight series

from Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight #73 (DC, July 1995), script by James Robinson, pencils and inks by John Watkiss, colors by Digital Chameleon, letters by Willie Schubert

Today in Comics History, February 20: Happy birthday, Dwayne McDuffie!

Born on this day in 1962: Dwayne McDuffie, writer, producer, co-founder of Milestone Comics, co-creator of Damage Control, Static, Icon and Rocket, Hardware, and much more.



from (top) "Bullpen Bulletins" in Marvel Age #60 (Marvel, March 1988);
R: "Bullpen Bulletins" in Marvel Comics cover-dated September 1989

Today in Comics History, February 20: The movie The Great Escape is reenacted by pigs

Panel from "Strange Laws" in Detective Comics #278 (DC, April 1960); script, pencils, inks and letters by Henry Boltinoff

Today in Comics History, February 20, 1947: MTR: Music Television Radio is on the air!

from Steed and Mrs. Peel (2012 series) #6 (Boom, February 2013), script by Caleb Monroe, pencils and inks by Yasmin Liang, colors by Ron Riley, letters by Ed Dukeshire

Today in Comics History, February 20: The notorious Culvert Diamond Thief is captured

from a Ray-O-Vac battery advertisement in DC Comics cover-dated October 1950

Today in Comics History, February 20, 1962: Supergirl makes her public debut; Superman becomes the first obsessive collector to take photographs off his TV screen

from "Superman's Romance with Lana Lane!" in Lois Lane #41 (DC, May 1963), script by Jerry Siegel, pencils by Curt Swan, inks by George Klein