Today in Comics History, January 16, 1913: Godfrey Hardy tosses away the famous Neiman-Marcus chocolate chip cookie recipe

from Time Breakers #3 (DC/Helix, March 1997), script by Rachel Pollack, pencils and inks by Chris Weston, colors by Roberta Tewes, letters by Ellie de Ville

Today in Comics History, January 16, 1952: As much as I love the Marvel Universe, this probably wouldn't happen in 1952

from Fantastic Four (2023 series) #1/694 (Marvel, January 2023), script by Ryan North, pencils and inks by Iban Coello, colors by Jesus Aburtov, letters by Joe Caramagna

Today in Comics History, January 16: Happy birthday, André Michelin!

Bouncing into the world on this day in 1853: André Michelin, co-founder of the Michelin Tire Company and the publisher of the original Michelin Guide, which gave stars to restaurants on a scale of 1-5 for snootiness.

Sadly, André Michelin doesn't seem to appear in any comic books that I can tell. Talk about snootiness, comics industry! So I'm going to fulfill my duty for his birthday by instead populating this post with comic book appearances of Bibendum, the famous Michelin Tire Man, who actually is all he's blown up to be! Mind you, early Michelin Man was pretty much total nightmare fuel...but he got cuter.

Today in Comics History, January 16: Happy birthday, Steve Erwin!

Born on this day: comics artist Steve Erwin (Checkmate, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Deathstroke the Terminator, ID4: Independence Day, and more)! Steve's the winner of the Comix Fair 1984 Marvel "Pulse-Pounding Penciling Contest":



"New Talent Department" in Marvel Age #33 (Marvel, December 1985), article by Sholly Fish, pencils by Steve Erwin
I don't think it's completely fair to salute a birthday creator with only try-out pages from before their professional career, so here's some of Steve's work for the adaptation of the blockbuster Batman Returns, America's only Danny DeVito movie!




from Batman Returns: The Official Comic Adaptation of the Warner Bros. Motion Picture one-shot (DC, 1992), script by Denny O'Neil, pencils by Steve Erwin, inks by José Luis García-López, colors by Tom McCraw, letters by John Costanza
Happy birthday, Steve!

Today in Comics History, January 16, 1943: Very bad news: Thunderbird never survives his second mission in comic books

from "Thunderbird" in True Aviation Picture-Stories #4 (Parents' Magazine Press, August 1943), pencils and inks by Jack Sparling

Today in Comics History, January 16, 1942: Wow, that's a really big raft

from "Three Men on a Raft" in True Comics #16 (Parents' Magazine Press, September 1942), creators unknown

Today in Comics History, January 16, 1942: Fellas, it's too rough to feed ya

How It Started:


from "Odyssey on a Raft" in Real Life Comics #11 (Pines, May 1943), creators unidentified
How It's Going:

Today in Comics History, January 16, 1926: The first episode of "I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue" is not a huge success

from "The BBC Riot Panic" in The Big Book of Hoaxes (DC/Paradox, November 1996), script by Carl Sifakis, pencils by Lee Moder

Today in Comics History, January 16: Black Canary wonders "How will the wolf survive?"

from "Wulf Hunt" in World's Finest Comics #246 (DC, August 1977), script by Gerry Conway, pencils by Michael Netzer, inks by Terry Austin