Today in Comics History, July 21: Happy birthday, Officer Brunalti!

from Justice Warriors #3 (AHOY, August 2022); co-script and letters by Matt Bors; co-script, pencils, and inks by Ben Clarkson; colors by Felipe Sobreio
Hope you survive the experience!


...oh.


Happy birthday anyway, Brunalti, ya big blob.

Today in Comics History, July 21: Happy birthday, Gary Whitta!

A very happy birthday today to screenwriter (The Book of Eli, Undying, After Earth, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, Abomination), author (Star Wars: The Last Jedi Adaptation, OLIVER), game designer (Duke Nukem Forever, Prey, Gears of War, The Walking Dead games), video game journalist (PC Gamer, ACE magazine), and (the most important one to us) comic book writer Gary Whitta (Batman: the Fortress, a story in The Joker 80th Anniversary 100-Page Super Spectacular)!


"DC Nation" from DC Comics cover-dated July 2022
Happy birtrhday, Gary!

Toiday in Comics History, July 21: Happy birthday, Edwina Dumm!

Born on this day in 1893: Edwina Dumm, creator of the syndicated comic strip Cap Stubbs and Tippie, which ran from 1918 to 1966. The strip has been reprinted in Sensation Comics, Wonder Woman, Popular Comics, Tiny Tits Tots Funnies, Nemo: The Classic Comics Library and more.


from Ace Comics #54 (David McKay, September 1941)
Happy birthday, Edwina!

Today in Comics History, July 21, 1804: Number of times a white man has prevented a Black man from having something nice crosses one trillion

from Manifest Destiny #12 (Image, December 2014), script by Chris Dingess, pencils and inks by Matthew Roberts, colors by Owen Gieni, letters by Pat Brosseau

Today in Comics History, July 21, 1861: Over in a month? The South thinks it still isn't over

from Picture Stories from American History #4 (EC, Summer 1947), script by Jerry Coleman, pencils and inks by Allen Simon

Today in Comics History, July 21, 1861: Surely this young Army lieutenant will go far in his career

from "[George Armstrong Custer:] America's Most Colorful Cavalry Leader" in Real Life Comics #5 (Pines, May 1942), creators uncredited and unknown

Today in Comics History, July 21, 1861: Battle of My People Going for a Jog

from "Stonewall Jackson: How He Earned That Nickname" in Real Heroes #5 (Parents' Magazine Press, July 1942), pencils and inks by Gus Schrotter

Today in Comics History, July 21, 1969: All that super-research and he still got the date wrong

from Superman: The Last Family of Krypton #1 (DC/Elseworlds,October 2010), script by Cary Bates, pencils by Renato Arlem, inks by Renato Arlem, colors by Allen Passalaqua, letters by Pat Brosseau

Today in Comics History, July 21, 1992: Rest in peace, Tony Stark

from Marvel Age #116 (Marvel, September 1992)

Today in Comics History, July 21, 2020: This, uncannily enough, is exactly 2020 looks like, except it needs more masks

cover of 2020 Visions #1 (DC/Vertigo, May 1997), photo collage by John Eder

Today in Comics History, July 21, 1999: Betty Brant demands publication of Spider-Woman, Spider-Gwen, and Silk comic books

from Year in Review 1999: Spider-Man one-shot (Marvel, February 2000), text by Frank Dunkerley, designed by John Roshell and Eric Eng Wong

Today in Comics History, July 21: Green Lantern becomes filthy rich buying a sports almanac

from "The Tick-Tock Traps of the Time Commander" in The Brave and the Bold (1955 series) #59 (DC, April 1965), script by Bob Haney, pencils by Ramona Fradon, inks by Charles Paris, letters by Stan Starkman