photo cover of Who's Minding the Mint? [Movie Comic #12-924-708] one-shot (Dell, August 1967). Yeah, I don't know what's up with that numbering system either.
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Friday, February 03, 2023
Today in Comics History, February 3: Happy birthday, Victor Buono!
Born on this day in 1938: actor Victor Buono, whose film and TV credits include What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (he was nominted for both an Oscar and a Golden Globe!), Beneath the Planet of the Apes, Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte, The Greatest Story Ever Told, The Silencers, Robin and the 7 Hoods, The Wild Wild West, Vega$, and many more, including the 1967 heist comedy Who's Minding the Mint?. Mint is a favorite of mine because it stars Jim Hutton (Ellery Queen), and also includes Milton Berle, Walter Brennan, Joey Bishop (it's his birthday today, too!) and Bob Denver, and is co-written by Batman's second-favorite cop, Harvey Bullock! Buono, as "The Captain," is pictured here on the cover (in the back of the boat) in Dell Comics's adaptation of Mint!
photo cover of Who's Minding the Mint? [Movie Comic #12-924-708] one-shot (Dell, August 1967). Yeah, I don't know what's up with that numbering system either.
photo cover of Who's Minding the Mint? [Movie Comic #12-924-708] one-shot (Dell, August 1967). Yeah, I don't know what's up with that numbering system either.
Friday, November 18, 2022
Today in Comics History, November 18: Happy birthday, Kim Wilde!
Born on this day: singer Kim Wilde! She's one of the Kids in America the UK!
covers of Look-In #36/1981 (ITV, 29 August 1981) and #47/1981 (14 November 1981)
Happy birthday, Kim!
covers of Look-In #36/1981 (ITV, 29 August 1981) and #47/1981 (14 November 1981)
Happy birthday, Kim!
Friday, July 01, 2022
Today in Comics History, July 1: Happy birthday, Debbie Harry!
Born on this day, the very coolest of days to have a birthday: singer, songwriter, and actress Deborah Harry, singer/songerwriter/actor and lead vocalist of the band Blondie!
cover of Look-In #11/1979 (ITV, 10 March 1979), painting by Arnaldo Putzu
cover of Look-In #11/1979 (ITV, 10 March 1979), painting by Arnaldo Putzu
Saturday, March 05, 2022
Today in Comics History, March 5: Happy birthday, Andy Gibb!
Born exactly toda in the year 1958, let's a hoist a birthday toast to the late great (died 1988) singer, songwriter, actor and unofficial Brother Gibb: Andy Gibb!
cover of Look-In (1971 series) ##41/1978 (ITV, 7 October 1978), painting by Ivan Rose
Andy was the younger brother of the Bee Gees (Barry, Robin, and Maurice Gibb), but even tho' he wasn't in that supergroup, he still made some great hits himself: "I Just Want to Be Your Everything," "(Love Is) Thicker Than Water," and "Shadow Dancing." And, je was an actor, appearing on the stage in The Pirates of Penzance and Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat, and on television on Punky Brewster and Gimmee a Break! as well as hosting a season of Solid Gold!
from Vigilante #4 (DC, March 1984), script by Marv Wolfman, pencils by Don Newton, inks by Pablo Marcos, colors by Anthony Tollin, letters by Todd Klein
Happy birthday, Andy. You left us too soon.
cover of Look-In (1971 series) ##41/1978 (ITV, 7 October 1978), painting by Ivan Rose
Andy was the younger brother of the Bee Gees (Barry, Robin, and Maurice Gibb), but even tho' he wasn't in that supergroup, he still made some great hits himself: "I Just Want to Be Your Everything," "(Love Is) Thicker Than Water," and "Shadow Dancing." And, je was an actor, appearing on the stage in The Pirates of Penzance and Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat, and on television on Punky Brewster and Gimmee a Break! as well as hosting a season of Solid Gold!
from Vigilante #4 (DC, March 1984), script by Marv Wolfman, pencils by Don Newton, inks by Pablo Marcos, colors by Anthony Tollin, letters by Todd Klein
Happy birthday, Andy. You left us too soon.
Wednesday, February 02, 2022
Today in Comics History, February 2: Happy birthday, Farrah Fawcett!
Born on this day in 1947: Farrah Fawcett...
cover of Emma #57 (D. C. Thomson, 24 March 1979)
cover of Emma #57 (D. C. Thomson, 24 March 1979)
Friday, January 21, 2022
Today in Comics History, January 21: Happy birthday, Benny Hill!
Born on this day in 1924: English funnyman Benny Hill, star of radio (Benny Hill Time), movies (The Italian Job, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines), records ("Ernie, The Fastest Milkman in the West"), and of course, television (The Benny Hill Show).
And comics! Coinciding with his radio success, Benny had a long-running feature page in the UK's Radio Fun and Film Fun, including cover appearances:
covers of Radio Fun Annual 1958 and 1960 (Amalgamated Press), artists unknown
And interior comedy strips!
from Radio Fun #1034 and 1039 (Amalgamated, 2 August and 6 September 1958), illustrated by Reg Parlett
Later, when Benny's show ran (constantly) on Britain's ITV channel, he was featured on both covers and via comic strips in the company's weekly magazine Look-In:
strips from Look-In #10/1977 and 38/198 (ITV, 5 March 1977 and 13 September 1980), script by Angus P. Allan, pencils and inks by Bill Titcombe
And even the occasional feature page or two!
"Trans-Atlantic Scuttle" from Look-In #38/198, by Terry Tanell
(Then again, Benny was always keen onputting the foot in the groin getting paid advertisement placement):
advert from Film Fun #1931 (19 January 1957)
Happy birthday, Benny Hill! Slap a little bald man on the head today for me!
from "The Mad Nasty File" in MAD #260 (January 1986), script by Tom Koch, pencils and inks by Gerry Gersten
And comics! Coinciding with his radio success, Benny had a long-running feature page in the UK's Radio Fun and Film Fun, including cover appearances:
covers of Radio Fun Annual 1958 and 1960 (Amalgamated Press), artists unknown
And interior comedy strips!
from Radio Fun #1034 and 1039 (Amalgamated, 2 August and 6 September 1958), illustrated by Reg Parlett
Later, when Benny's show ran (constantly) on Britain's ITV channel, he was featured on both covers and via comic strips in the company's weekly magazine Look-In:
strips from Look-In #10/1977 and 38/198 (ITV, 5 March 1977 and 13 September 1980), script by Angus P. Allan, pencils and inks by Bill Titcombe
And even the occasional feature page or two!
"Trans-Atlantic Scuttle" from Look-In #38/198, by Terry Tanell
(Then again, Benny was always keen on
advert from Film Fun #1931 (19 January 1957)
Happy birthday, Benny Hill! Slap a little bald man on the head today for me!
from "The Mad Nasty File" in MAD #260 (January 1986), script by Tom Koch, pencils and inks by Gerry Gersten
Thursday, January 13, 2022
Today in Comics History, January 13: Happy birthday, Suggs!
Happy birthday to one of my favorite musicians, that nutty boy Suggs (Graham McPherson), out of the British pop-ska group Madness! I bet 'round now you're saying, "Hey, Bully, Suggs never appeared in a comic book!"
YOU ARE WRONG.
cover of Look-In (1971 series) #3/1983 (ITV, 15 January 1983)
Look-In was a British companion magazine ("for young people") to TV shows that ran on the ITV commercial TV channel — only the third channel in the United Kingdom and its first commercial station (the fourth, the aptly named "Channel 4," premiered only a month or so before this magazine). It ran celebrity spotlights, pop star interviews and bios, comic strips and features on the stars and shows that they broadcast. Their "Madness" strip had been running about a year and a half by this point. Spring of 1983 was when my Pal John was studying in London for the semester, so he bought a lot of these (20p! Cheap!) including this very issue, but sadly lost them in one of his many moves before he adopted me. But I was able to find a few scans of one Madness strip online. Here's some excerpts.
from "It's Madness" in Look-In (1971 series) #5/1983 (ITV, 29 January 1983), script by Angus P. Allan, pencils and inks by Harry North
Sadly, the Madness strip was replaced by one about Bucks Fizz later in '83 (boo!), but there's at least one other place to find Madness Comix...within the pages of Nutty Boys, an official Madness fanzine that circulated for two issues in 1981.
from Nutty Boys: Madness Comix #1 (Madness Comix, 1981), creators unidentified
Learn all about those cheeky blokes of Madness! Say, Chas. Smash's birthday is tomorrow! Well, just read this post again.
And that's all of the Suggs I can find in comic books, 'less'n you count that one Ditko story where he was a low-down dirty yeller-bellied varmint in the Ollllllllld West.
from "Bonanza" in Outlaws of the West #81 (Charlton, May 1970), script by Joe Gill (?), pencils and inks by Steve Ditko, letters by Charlotte Jetter
Happy birthday, Suggs!
YOU ARE WRONG.
cover of Look-In (1971 series) #3/1983 (ITV, 15 January 1983)
Look-In was a British companion magazine ("for young people") to TV shows that ran on the ITV commercial TV channel — only the third channel in the United Kingdom and its first commercial station (the fourth, the aptly named "Channel 4," premiered only a month or so before this magazine). It ran celebrity spotlights, pop star interviews and bios, comic strips and features on the stars and shows that they broadcast. Their "Madness" strip had been running about a year and a half by this point. Spring of 1983 was when my Pal John was studying in London for the semester, so he bought a lot of these (20p! Cheap!) including this very issue, but sadly lost them in one of his many moves before he adopted me. But I was able to find a few scans of one Madness strip online. Here's some excerpts.
from "It's Madness" in Look-In (1971 series) #5/1983 (ITV, 29 January 1983), script by Angus P. Allan, pencils and inks by Harry North
Sadly, the Madness strip was replaced by one about Bucks Fizz later in '83 (boo!), but there's at least one other place to find Madness Comix...within the pages of Nutty Boys, an official Madness fanzine that circulated for two issues in 1981.
from Nutty Boys: Madness Comix #1 (Madness Comix, 1981), creators unidentified
Learn all about those cheeky blokes of Madness! Say, Chas. Smash's birthday is tomorrow! Well, just read this post again.
And that's all of the Suggs I can find in comic books, 'less'n you count that one Ditko story where he was a low-down dirty yeller-bellied varmint in the Ollllllllld West.
from "Bonanza" in Outlaws of the West #81 (Charlton, May 1970), script by Joe Gill (?), pencils and inks by Steve Ditko, letters by Charlotte Jetter
Happy birthday, Suggs!
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