from Public Domain #2 (Image, July 2022), by Chip Zdarsky
Showing posts with label January 25. Show all posts
Showing posts with label January 25. Show all posts
Wednesday, January 25, 2023
Today in Comics History, January 25, 1976: Please pinch and spread your fingers on this comic book to enhance
from Public Domain #2 (Image, July 2022), by Chip Zdarsky
Today in Comics History, January 25, 1947: Daily Gazette publishes its biggest issue yet — I'm serious, this thing is like five foot tall
Well, at least I think it's 1/25/47. If you're sure it isn't (or if you're GL), get in touch with me!
from "The Terror of the Talismans, Part One" in Green Lantern (1941 series) #31 (DC/National, March 1948), script by Robert Kanigher, pencils by Irwin Hasen, inks by John Belfi
from "The Terror of the Talismans, Part One" in Green Lantern (1941 series) #31 (DC/National, March 1948), script by Robert Kanigher, pencils by Irwin Hasen, inks by John Belfi
Tuesday, January 25, 2022
Today in Comics History, January 25, 1882: Happy birthday, Virginia Woolf!
Hey, let's wish a beer-filled, cake-stuffed, carousin' and cavortin' birthday celebration to the 20th Century's original fun time party girl, Virginia Woolf, author of all those comedic novels that had us rolling on the floor with hilarity, like the larf-out-loud Mrs. Dalloway, the absolute punfest To the Lighthouse, and the sizzling over-eighteen steamy romance A Room of One's Own! (Why do you think she founded the Ho-Ho-Hogarth Press?) Truly the greatest genre writer of her time, and I'm not even counting all those Doc Savage novels she ghost-wrote!
I'm a big fan of Virginia Woolf, especially for her genre-breaking appearances in that great work of literature, New Warriors!
cover of New Warriors (2005 series) #5 (Marvel, January 2006); pencils, inks, and colors by Skottie Young
With only two appearances in comicbooks, Ms. Woolf falls just one issue short of the criteria for being included in the Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe, but they were running out of room in the Ws anyway after Wolverine's section expanded to 31 pages. Luckily, she's not prejudiced against young fish-women!
from New Warriors #5; script by Zeb Wells; pencils, inks, and colors by Skottie Young; additional colors by Jean-Francois Beaulieu; letters by Randy Gentile
Too bad it's never been noted in the history books that Miz Woolf is a...wait, am I reading this right? A supervillain? Wow, Ginny, take it down a notch. Geez.
from New Warriors (2005 series) #4 (Marvel, November 2005); script by Zeb Wells; pencils, inks, and colors by Skottie Young; additional colors by Jean-Francois Beaulieu; letters by Randy Gentile
Yeesh! (looks nervous, tugs on my collar) Instead of considering Virginia Woolf as an evil nemesis, let's take a loot at her instead in the pages of Uber, a comic...about...super-powered Nazis. Oh dear.
from Uber #12 (Avatar, April 2014), script by Kieron Gillen, pencils and inks by Gabriel Andrade, colors by Digikore Studios, letters by Kurt Hathaway
So, to answer the musical question "Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf?" I am! I AM.
I'm a big fan of Virginia Woolf, especially for her genre-breaking appearances in that great work of literature, New Warriors!
cover of New Warriors (2005 series) #5 (Marvel, January 2006); pencils, inks, and colors by Skottie Young
With only two appearances in comicbooks, Ms. Woolf falls just one issue short of the criteria for being included in the Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe, but they were running out of room in the Ws anyway after Wolverine's section expanded to 31 pages. Luckily, she's not prejudiced against young fish-women!
from New Warriors #5; script by Zeb Wells; pencils, inks, and colors by Skottie Young; additional colors by Jean-Francois Beaulieu; letters by Randy Gentile
Too bad it's never been noted in the history books that Miz Woolf is a...wait, am I reading this right? A supervillain? Wow, Ginny, take it down a notch. Geez.
from New Warriors (2005 series) #4 (Marvel, November 2005); script by Zeb Wells; pencils, inks, and colors by Skottie Young; additional colors by Jean-Francois Beaulieu; letters by Randy Gentile
Yeesh! (looks nervous, tugs on my collar) Instead of considering Virginia Woolf as an evil nemesis, let's take a loot at her instead in the pages of Uber, a comic...about...super-powered Nazis. Oh dear.
from Uber #12 (Avatar, April 2014), script by Kieron Gillen, pencils and inks by Gabriel Andrade, colors by Digikore Studios, letters by Kurt Hathaway
So, to answer the musical question "Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf?" I am! I AM.
Today in Comics History, January 25: Happy birthday, Dr. Sivana!
...you low-down criminal mastermind mad scientist, you!
from Super DC Calendar 1976 (DC, 1975), letters by Ben Oda
So yes, it's the birthday of Dr. Thaddeus Sivana, the sworn (and he shouldn't swear) arch enemy of Captain Marvel! The real one. Nothin' against you, Brie Larson, but Billy had the name first. In fact, the first appearance of Sivana is also the first appearance of Captain Marvel huimself, in Whiz Comics #2! (Wow, he worked fast, didn't he?) Yes, Whiz Comics, the newsstand's only comic book that instructs kids how to go off with mysterious strangers into dark subway stations! Soon, kids all around the country were doin' it!
from "[Introducing Captain Marvel]" in Whiz Comics #2 (Fawcett, February 1940), script and colors by Bill Parker, pencils and inks by C. C. Beck
Billy soon meets the wizard whose name he cannot say in general conversation!
Thus, the bloodthirsty Billy Batson racks up his first kill.
And where does Sivana come in during all this? I'm glad you asked that question. He comes in right...about...here!
Sivana has taken all the radio stations across the nation off the air! Now he's free to become the Pirate of the Air Waves and broadcast nothing but right-wing conspiracy theory call-in radio 24/7!
WHO can possible stop h...oh, Captain Marvel already did it. Slow down, Cap, this breakneck pace is killin' me!
Wait, did Cap just throw Sivana into a wall? He's racked up his second kill in less than 24 hours!
Anyway, happy birthday, Sivana, you coo-coo crazy nut mad scientist evil genius, you!
from Who's Who: The Definitive Directory of the DC Universe (1985 series) #21 (November 1986); pencils and inks by Kurt Schaffenberger
from Super DC Calendar 1976 (DC, 1975), letters by Ben Oda
So yes, it's the birthday of Dr. Thaddeus Sivana, the sworn (and he shouldn't swear) arch enemy of Captain Marvel! The real one. Nothin' against you, Brie Larson, but Billy had the name first. In fact, the first appearance of Sivana is also the first appearance of Captain Marvel huimself, in Whiz Comics #2! (Wow, he worked fast, didn't he?) Yes, Whiz Comics, the newsstand's only comic book that instructs kids how to go off with mysterious strangers into dark subway stations! Soon, kids all around the country were doin' it!
from "[Introducing Captain Marvel]" in Whiz Comics #2 (Fawcett, February 1940), script and colors by Bill Parker, pencils and inks by C. C. Beck
Billy soon meets the wizard whose name he cannot say in general conversation!
Thus, the bloodthirsty Billy Batson racks up his first kill.
And where does Sivana come in during all this? I'm glad you asked that question. He comes in right...about...here!
Sivana has taken all the radio stations across the nation off the air! Now he's free to become the Pirate of the Air Waves and broadcast nothing but right-wing conspiracy theory call-in radio 24/7!
WHO can possible stop h...oh, Captain Marvel already did it. Slow down, Cap, this breakneck pace is killin' me!
Wait, did Cap just throw Sivana into a wall? He's racked up his second kill in less than 24 hours!
Anyway, happy birthday, Sivana, you coo-coo crazy nut mad scientist evil genius, you!
from Who's Who: The Definitive Directory of the DC Universe (1985 series) #21 (November 1986); pencils and inks by Kurt Schaffenberger
Today in Comics History, January 25, 1898: Another senseless Norwegian Cruise disaster
from "America Becomes a World Power, 1898-1918" in True Comics #24 (Parents' Magazine Press, June 1943), script by David S. Muzzey
Saturday, January 25, 2014
Today in Comic History, January 25, 1759: My heart's in the Highlands, but my feet are in Brooklyn
This post was updated on January 25, 2022.
Hoot mon! 'Tis that time o' year when we dust off the bagpipes, step into our kilts, deep-fry our Mars Bars, defrost the Trader Angus's Ready-in-a-Bag Haggis, and raise a hearty toast of Glenmorangie to Burns!
Panels from "Mr. Burns to the Rescue" in Simpsons One-Shot Wonders: Mr. Burns (June 2013), script by Nathan Kane, pencils by Tone Rodriguez, inks by Andrew Pepoy, colors by Art Villanueva, lLetters by Karen Bates
Wait, wait, no no no, I've made another one of my silly mistakes. Not that Mr. Burns, this Mr. Burns...Robert Burns, born on this day in 1759!
Hoot mon! 'Tis that time o' year when we dust off the bagpipes, step into our kilts, deep-fry our Mars Bars, defrost the Trader Angus's Ready-in-a-Bag Haggis, and raise a hearty toast of Glenmorangie to Burns!
Panels from "Mr. Burns to the Rescue" in Simpsons One-Shot Wonders: Mr. Burns (June 2013), script by Nathan Kane, pencils by Tone Rodriguez, inks by Andrew Pepoy, colors by Art Villanueva, lLetters by Karen Bates
Wait, wait, no no no, I've made another one of my silly mistakes. Not that Mr. Burns, this Mr. Burns...Robert Burns, born on this day in 1759!
Friday, January 25, 2013
Today in Comics History, January 25, 1945: Well, we know it wasn't the Battle of Anzio
from Batman: Arkham Unhinged #46 (DC, October 2012), script by Karen Travis, pencils and inks by Riccardo Burchielli, colors by Alejandro Sanchez, letters by Travis Lanham
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