Today in Comics History, Father's Day: Bully's Father's Day Gift Suggestion #73: Really, anything at all, Clark, ya load

Guess who forgot it was Father's Day! Golly, that computer-like brain of yours is great for categorizing super-criminals and which girls on the Legion of Super-Heroes you'd like to see in their underwear, Kid Kal...not so good for remembering dates.


from "Father's Day on Planet Krypton!" Adventure Comics #313 (DC/National, October 1963), script by Leo Dorfman and Mort Weisinger, pencils and inks by George Papp, letters by Joe Letterese
It's a story cleverly called "Father's Day on Planet Krypton!" because it's about...Father's Day on Planet Krypton. Not Earth, so you can shove it, Pa Kent.

Today in Comics History, July 4: Smallville, Kansas is destroyed

from "The Holiday Hijackers" in Adventure Comics #145 (DC, October 1949), script by Edmond Hamilton, pencils and inks by John Sikela

Today in Comics History, July 3: Clark plans his neck-snapping holiday

from "The Holiday Hijackers" in Adventure Comics #145 (October 1949), script by Edmond Hamilton, pencils and inks by John Sikela

More Cow/Bull Month, Day 24: Thank goodness for his Sears Toughskins

Panels from "The Origin of Superboy's Costume!" in Superboy v.1 #78 (January 1960), pencils and inks by John Sikela

More Kal versus Bull action tomorrow!

Today in Comics History, Monday the 15th: Lar Gand is re-named "Today-El"

from Action Comics Annual (1987 series) #10 (DC, March 2007), script by Geoff Johns and Richard Donner, pencils and inks by Eric Wight, colors by Lee Loughridge, letters by Travis Lanham
No month on it? I call no way on that calendar.

Ten of a Kind and Today in Comics History, Mother's Day: From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Martha Clark Kent

(More Ten of a Kind here.)