Today in Comics History, May 3: Happy birthday, Bing Crosby!

Born on this date in 1903: Bing Crosby, actor, singer, comedian, and comic book star. In fact, Bing's been in comics almost since their invention!


from "Star-Light" in Action Comics (1938 series) #5 (DC, October 1938), pencils and inks by Sheldon Moldoff

Today in Comics History, May 3: Happy birthday, Darren Auck!

Born on this day: comics scripter, artist and letterer Darren Auck (What If?, What The--?!, Barbie, and, of course, the Marvel Age calendars)!


from Marvel Age #101 and 109 (Marvel, June 1991); text by Chris Eliopoulis and Barry Dutter (#101) and Mike Lackey (#109); pencils and inks by Ron Zalme (#101)and Darren Auck (#109), colors by Renee Witterstaetter (#101)
Can you spot Darren out of the thousands of Marvel Bullpenners? Sure you can! If not you, then maybe his mom will!

from Marvel Age #120 (Marvel, January 1993), art by Rick Parker
(Click top picture to Bullpen-size)
Happy birthday, Darren!


from Marvel Age #111 (Marvel, April 1992)

Today in Comics History, May 3, 1978: Humanity is giggling too hard to defend Earth

from "They Came from Uranus" in Realms (Catalan, July 1987); script, pencils, inks, and letters by Paul Kirchner

Today in Comics History, May 3: Happy birthday, Bill Sienkiewicz!

A very happy birthday today to one of my favorite comic artists...heck, one of my favorite artist artists, the amazing Bill Sienkiewicz!


from Marvel Age #29, 53, and 89 (Marvel, August 1985, August 1987, and May 1991); text by Jim Salicrup (#29), Mike Carlin (#53) and Chris Eliopoulis and Barry Dutter (#89); pencils and inks by Ron Zalme; colors by Paul Becton (#53) and Renee Witterstaetter (#89)
Bill has pencilled and inked hundreds of comics, including classics like The New Mutants, Moon Knight, Elektra: Assassin, and hey, the finest Pop-Tart adjecent comic book ever published, Stray Toasters!

Just rememberL Bill is the comics guy whose name you should copy and paste rather than trying to spell it out for yourself!


from Amazing Spider-Man (1963 series) #297 (Marvel, February 1988), script by David Michelinie, pencils by Alex Saviuk, inks by Vince Colletta, colors by Janet Jackson, letters by Rick Parker
Happy birthday, Bill!

Today in Comics History, May 3, 2020: Daily Star forgets how to justify type

from Superman (2018 series) #20 (April 2020), script by Brian Michael Bendis, pencils by Ivan Reis, inks by Joe Prado and Oclair Albert, colors by Alex Sinclair and Jeremiah Skipper, letters by Dave Sharpe

Today in Comics History, May 3, 1989: Temperature in Hell rises to a balmy 49 degrees F

from "Spidey versus J.J.J.!!" in Amazing Spider-Man Annual #23 (Marvel, September 1989); script, pencils, and inks by Fred Hembeck; letters by Rick Parker (?)