Comics Do Shakespeare: Julius Caesar, Act 4: Normally for a final pun of that caliber you'd have to go to Peabody's Improbable History

from Simpsons Comics #76 (Bongo, November 2002), script by Ian Boothby, pencils by John Costanza, inks by Phyllis Novin and Howard Shum, colors by Art Villanueva and Joey Mason, letters by Karen Bates

Comics Do Shakespeare: Julius Caesar: Act 3: We now return you to Damon Runyon's Shakespeare Playhouse

from "The Five Weapons That Shook the World!" in Detective Comics #143 (DC, January 1949), pencils by Curt Swan, inks by Steve Brodie

Comics Do Shakespeare: Julius Caesar: Act 2: How does this make you feel about little birdies now, kids?

from "The Killing Peck" in Secret Origins Special #1 one-shot (DC, October 1989), script by Alan Grant, pencils and inks by Sam Kieth, colors by Tom McCraw, letters by Albert DeGuzman

Comics Do Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, Act 1: They're speaking in upper and lower case letters! They must be from Krakoa.

from Classics Illustrated #68 [Julius Caesar] (Gilberton, February 1950), pencils and inks by Henry Kiefer

Today in Comics History, July 12, 44 BCE: Happy Birthday, Salad Inventor Guy

from "Were You Born in July" in Amazing Man Comics #14 (July 1940), pencils and inks by Joseph A. Kaliff
Hey, wanna read more about Caesar? Sure, we all do! Check out my pal John's post on Thirteen Comic Book Caesars over at 13th Dimension! An' I helped!

Today in Comics History, March 15, 44 BC: At 13th Dimension: 13 Comic Book Julius Caesars! Plus, Caesar in the Marvel Universe!

Today, it's all about Caesar! Caesar, everybody!


from Batman '66 #21 (DC digital comic, November 2013), script by Tom Peyer, pencils and inks by Derec Donovan, colors by Tony Avina
No, no, no, wrong Cesar. I've made another one of my silly mistakes. I meant Julius Caesar.


from "Julius Caesar at Yankee Stadium" in Hit Comics #30 (Quality, November 1943), pencils by Sheldon Moldoff
That's why today at 13th Dimension, my pal John celebrates the 2059th anniversary (2059? I think that's the gift of haggis) of the Death of Julius Caesar, the so-called Ides of March, with 13 Comic Book Julius Caesars! That includes the one that wore a toga. And twelve others! I helped out by clipping the panels out of comic books.

John didn't include, however, the vast history of Julius Caesar in the Marvel Universe, because it's just too darn big a story. Why, if you check his page in the Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe, Caesar chalks up an amazing one billion and three Earth-616 stories, including all those issues of Guardians where he was Rocket Raccoon's drinking buddy, his stint as a supporting cast member of Skrull Kill Krew, and the short-lived miniseries Julius Caesar: Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D.* But let's start with perhaps the first Marvel appearance of Caesar (if not his eponymous salad or birthing method), way back in the Golden Age of Timely Comics!


from Ideal #1 (Marvel/Timely, July 1948), creators unknown