Today in Comics History, June 21, 2003: Then again, he's never seen Supertrain

from Miracleman (1985 series) #24 (Eclipse, June 1993), script by Neil Gaiman, pencils and inks by Mark Buckingham, colors by Matt Brooker as D'Israeli, letters by Wayne Truman
Poor Young Miracleman! History has changed so dramatically they probably never even invented cable.

Now let's look at that same scene, completely redrawn in the Mighty Marvel Manner!


from Miracleman by Gaiman and Buckingham: The Silver Age (2022 series) #2 (Marvel, January 2023), script by Neil Gaiman, new pencils and inks by Mark Buckingham, new colors by Jordie Bellaire, new letters by Todd Klein
Yeah, I don't get the point of doing it that way, either.

Today in Comics History, June 21, First Day of Summer: Superman orders you to break chains or you lose at summer

"Super Strength: Rules for Summer Living" from Superman (1940 series) #5 (DC/Superman Inc., Summer 1940), script by Jerry Siegel, Superman= inset by Joe Shuster, pencils and inks by Dennis Neville (?)

Today in Comics History, June 21, 1952: Willie Mays performs such awesome baseball feats that mere artwork cannot portray it

from "Say Hey Kid in Action" in The Amazing Willie Mays one-shot (Eastern Color, September 1954), creators uncredited and unknown
Rest in peace, Willie Mays.

(Don't worry fans, there's many more panels to come from this same comic!)

Today in Comics History, June 21, 1805: River turns into M. F. Enterprises's Captain Marvel

from Manifest Destiny #42 (Image, March 2020), script by Chris Dingess, pencils and inks by Matthew Roberts, colors by Owen Gieni, letters by Pat Brosseau

Today in Comics History, June 21, 1950: Goodyear Blimp springs a leak and goes zooming across night sky

from "The 1950 Hamilton Air Force Base, California Case" in Weird Science-Fantasy (1954 series) #26 (EC, December 1954), script by Al Feldstein, pencils and inks by George Evans, colors by Marie Severin, letters by Jim Wroten

Today in Comics History, June 21, 1934: Criminals on Neptune Avenue plan to steal a lot of clams

from "Gang War in Brooklyn" in Crime Cases Comics #27/4 (Marvel/Atlas, March 1951), pencils and inks by Joe Maneely, colors by Stan Goldberg

Today in Comics History, June 21, 1963: Doomed space captain at least able to sell a text story to Farrell Comics

"Lost Comet" from Strange Journey #3 (Farrell, February 1958), creators uncredited and unknown
And here's more proof that nobody ever read those text stories anyway: they printed the same story (under a different title) in the very next issue.



"Operation Satellite" from Strange Journey #4 (Farrell, June 1958), creators uncredited and unknown
Sure hope that doomed space captain got paid twice. In Moon Bucks.

Today in Comics History, June 21, First Day of Summer: Here's your big summer annual crossover.

from Ambush Bug Nothing Special #1 one-shot (DC, September 1992), plot and pencils by Keith Giffen, script by Robert Loren Fleming, inks by Al Gordon, colors by Anthony Tollin, letters by John Costanza

Today in Comics History, June 21, First Day of Summer: Homer is not ready to go camping

from "The Winter of Our Discount Tent" in The Simpsons Winter Wingding #10 (Bongo, November 2015), script by Ian Boothby, pencils by Phil Ortiz, inks by Mike DeCarlo, colors by Alan Hellard, letters by Karen Bates

Today in Comics History, June 21: Robin Hood stabs Sheriff of Nottingham; writes about it in his diary

from "The Diary of a Desperado" in Adventure Comics #145 (DC, October 1949), script by Otto Binder, pencils and inks by George Papp

Today in Comics History: Sixteen years ago, all of the crappy Teen Titans are born

from Titans Beat preview one-shot (DC, September 1996)

Today in Comics History, June 21, First Day of Summer: Now that it's officially summer, here's some fun activities, from a pig

"Peter Porkchops Gives Tips on Summer Fun!" from DC Comics cover-dated August 1954, script by Jack Schiff, pencils and inks by Rube Grossman, letters by Ira Schnapp

Today in Comics History, June 21, First Day of Summer: Batman's got 104 days of summer vacation

from Detective Comics #735 (DC, August 1999), script by Greg Rucka, pencils by Dan Jurgens, inks by Bill Sienkiewicz, colors by Noelle Giddings, color separations by Wildstorm, letters by John Costanza