Today in Comics History, November 5, 1997: Oooooooh! Ahhhhhhhh! (applause)

from V for Vendetta #1 (DC, September 1998), script by Alan Moore, pencils and inks by David Lloyd, colors by David Lloyd and Siobhan Dodds, letters by Jenny O'Connor

Today in Comics History, November 5, 1605: This scene does not occur in today's story

Take a big steamin' gawk at this cover...


cover of Headline Comics v.2 #11 (#23) (Prize, March 1947), pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Jack Kirby or Joe Simon (?)
...which features this tagline in a font nearly bigger than the title!

Today in Comics History, November 5, 1997, 9 PM: It's Rishi Sunak's new prosperity

from "[Book One] Chapter One: The Villain" in (top) Warrior #1 (Quality Communications, March 1982)), script by Alan Moore, pencils and inks by David Lloyd, letters by Jenny O'Connor
(Bottom) V for Vendetta #1 (DC, September 1998), colors by David Lloyd and Siobhan Dodds

Today in Comics History, November 5, 1605: The Doctor knows a Guy

from "Gunpowder, Time Lord, and Plot" in Doctor Who: The Eleventh Doctor: Year Two #3 (December 2015), script and art by Marc Ellerby

Today in Comics History, November 5: England provides the twenty-first century with a role model, a guy who planned to blow up a government building, but who protest groups today apparently think is really cool because of those plastic masks

from Detective Comics #590 (DC, September 1988), script by John Wagner and Alan Grant, pencils and inks by Norm Breyfogle, colors by Adrienne Roy, letters by Todd Klein

Today in Comics History, November 4: Batman and Katana diplomatically refrain from mentioning Alfred's enormous chin

from Beware the Batman #1 (DC, December 2013), script by Ivan Cohen, pencils and inks by Luciano Vecchio, colors by Franco Riesco, letters by Wes Abbott

365 Days of DC House Ads, Day 309/Today in Comics History, November 5: Remember, remember

house ad for V for Vendetta #1 (September 1988) from DC Comics cover-dated September 1988, pencils and inks by David Lloyd

Today in Comics History, November 5: Nothing you could say can tear me away from my Guy

Hullo folks hullo! And especial greetings to all the people in the UK who are tonight carousing in the streets and burning things in huge piles! To you, I say...Seriously, folks, stop rioting! You missed your window of opportunity in 2011. Oh, and also there are people out celebrating Guy Fawkes Night, an English annual tradition of which I mainly know about thanks to More about Paddington (and thank you, HarperCollins, for recently bringing that book back into print, altho' I guess it was because of the excellent Paddington movie). Of course, I'm 100% behind any holiday which involves me going around to all the homes near my London abode of Bullingham Mansions...


...and getting pennies from people for the Guy. Hoorah!

Now, when you are a comic book fan and you think about Guy Fawkes, you probably think of this fella:


from V for Vendetta #1 (DC, September 1988), script by Alan Moore, pencils and inks by David Lloyd, colors by David Lloyd and Siobhan Dodds, letters by Jenny O'Connor
But actually I was thinking of a tale where national monuments of England don't get blown up, thanks to the helping hands of Superman!


from "The Revenge That Took Three Hundred Years" in Superman #79 (November-December 1952), script by Alvin Schwartz, pencils and inks by Al Plastino

Today in Comics History, November 5, 1605: "Not so fast, Mr. Fawkes."

(Psst! Happy Guy Fawkes Day!)