Today in Comics History, Mardi Gras: That's the Knight That the Lights Went Out in NOLA

Let's celebrate Mardi Gras with the least likely character ever to wind up in New Orleans during this bacchanalian festival: the true man out of time, Captain America The Shining Knight! He's really only there for the Dixieland jazz.


from "Mystery of the Clowning Criminals" in Leading Comics #2 (DC/World's Best Comics, Spring 1942), script by Mort Weisinger (?), pencils and inks by Creig Flessel

Today in Comics History, Mardi Gras: Vision would like to encounter these things called "beignets"

from The Vision and the Scarle Witch (1985 series) #9 (Marvel, June 1986), script by Steve Englehart, pencils by Richard Howell, inks by Frank Springer, colors by Adam Philips, letters by Bill Oakley
Moral of the comic: You just can't keep Vision away from them crawdaddy sammiches!

Today in Comics History, Mardi Gras: Happy Mardi Gras!

I have lots of beads, so you know what you have to trade me for them...candy!


from Super DC Calendar 1976 (DC, 1975)
What, what else would be worth these cool beads?

Today in Comics History, Mardi Gras: New Orleans? Not really a party town. Though if I remember correctly, they occasionally hold a function called Marty's...something.

Happy Mardi Gras, everybody! In the words of everybody's favorite* New Orleans guy, Gambit, laissez les bon temps roulez!



from "The Reprehensible Riddle of...the Sorcerer!" in Marvel Super-Heroes #14 (Marvel, May 1968), script by Stan Lee, pencils by Ross Andru, inks by Bill Everett, colors by Stan Goldberg, letters by Sam Rosen
* Hey, it's his one and only cultural holiday. Let's let him have a "favorite" just this once.