Today in Comics History, April 30: Happy birthday, Burton C. Mossman!

This is an expanded and updated version of a post originally published April 30, 2022.

Born on this day in 1867: Burton C. Mossman, legendary American lawman (and cattleman, but we won't hold that against him).


"Arizona Ranger" in Detective Comics #139 (DC, September 1948), script and art by Stookie Allen (?)
And from that point on there was never any troubles in Arizona ever again. EVER AGAIN.

Today in Comics History, May 24: Happy birthday, Queen Victoria!

Let's gather 'round a big royal birthday cake for the queen with the quality, the monarch with the most, Queen Victoria (born this very day in 1819; wow, she old.) She's also a frequent comic book star (see the popular DC series Seven Soldiers of Victoria).


from "Were You Born in May?" in Amazing Man Comics #12 (Centaur, May 1940); text, pencils and inks by Joseph A. Kaliff

You can never go wrong with a toy line tied into a sure-to-be blockbuster motion picture, right?

Lone Ranger movie tie-in toy ad printed in Saga of Swamp Thing #2 (June 1982)


Trailer for the commercial and critical bomb The Legend of the Lone Ranger (1981)