Born on this day: Roy Lincoln, better known to the superhero world and comic book-reading collective as
The Human Bomb! (Boom!)
from Super DC Calendar 1976 (DC, 1975), letters by Ben Oda
I usually like to include some of a character's first appearance on their birthday, but alas! Aside from the
Phantom Lady and Plastic Man stories, I don't have anything from H.B.'s debut story by Paul Gustavson in
Police Comics #1 (Quality, August 1941). No, not even the Millennium Edition (DC, 2000)! So here's a nice recapped version of his origin from a little later on.
from Police Comics #12 (Quality, October 1942); script, pencils, inks and letters by Paul Gustavson
Yes, 27QRX, now with new additive
Lincoln!
Roy';s origin is revisited once again in the Silver Age...well, almost. The following is from a Xerox™ of the cancelled
Freedom Fighters #17, a victim of the DC Implosion (see
here and
here for more on
that), so it was only published in a short run of 35 copies for copyright purposes. And I've got one of 'em! (Naw, not really! You can find this story reprinted in
The Secret Society of Super-Villains, Volume 2 trade from about ten years back.)
from "Murder Times Seven" in Cancelled Comic Cavalcade #2 (DC, Fall 1978), script by Bob Rozakis, pencils by Dick Ayers and Mike Vosburg, inks by Bob Smith, letters by Shelly Leferman
Happy birthday, Roy! Please remember to blow
out, not blow
up, your birthday cake candles!
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