Today in Comics History, January 2: Happy birthday, Don Heck!

Born on this day in 1929: Dashing Don Heck, longtime Golden Age and Marvel artist! He molded the backbone of the MCU (and thus should have been swimming in cash dollars, alas) by co-creating Iron Man, the Wasp, Black Widow, Hawkeye, The Swordsman, Mantis, Wonder Man, Polaris, and Havok, as well as drawing The Avengers, The X-Men, Amazing Spider-Man, Strange Tales, Tales to Astonish, Strange Worlds, World of Fantasy, Journey into Mystery and more, and stints on the comic strips The Phantom and Terry and the Pirates. Plus work on DC's Wonder Woman, Justice League of America, Lois Lane, The Flash, and lots of others. And the proverbial, much, much, more! Whew! Busy Don!


from The Mighty Marvel Calendar 1976 (Marvel, 1975) and Marvel Age#97 (Marvel, February 1991)

Same Story, Different Cover: So this is the reason Metrocards went up to $2.25

L: Tales of Suspense #22 (October 1961), pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Steve Ditko
R: Monsters on the Prowl #18 (August 1972), pencils by Gil Kane, inks by Vince Colletta

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