Today in Comics History, April 27: Parker is surprisingly tactless in his condolences to Edgars' mom

from Richard Stark's Parker: The Score (IDW, July 2012); adapted from the novel by Richard Stark; script, pencils, inks, color, and letters by Darwyn Cooke
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Today in Comics History, April 25: Holiday Inn's new "Creepy Wake-Up Call" is not a success

from Richard Stark's Parker: The Score (IDW, July 2012); adapted from the novel by Richard Stark; script, pencils, inks, color, and letters by Darwyn Cooke

Today in Comics History, April 24: The pilot for Airwolf '64 is not picked up for series

from Richard Stark's Parker: The Score (IDW, July 2012); adapted from the novel by Richard Stark; script, pencils, inks, color, and letters by Darwyn Cooke

Today in Comics History, April 23: At last the bacon truck has arrived

from Richard Stark's Parker: The Score (IDW, July 2012); adapted from the novel by Richard Stark; script, pencils, inks, color, and letters by Darwyn Cooke

Today in Comics History, April 20: Bruce Springsteen has the inspiration for his Nebraska album

from Richard Stark's Parker: The Score (July 2012); adapted from the novel by Richard Stark; script, pencils, inks, color, and letters by Darwyn Cooke

Today in Comics History, April 19: Jean is tremendously excited

from Richard Stark's Parker: The Score (IDW, July 2012); adapted from the novel by Richard Stark; script, pencils, inks, color, and letters by Darwyn Cooke
And, because this is the thing I do, I went looking to see if that Look magazine was accurate for the time. Well...no. Steve McQueen was on the cover, but that was in 1970, not 1964:


And the logo Cooke uses is from the mid-1950s. By '64 the Look logo had evolved into a two-thirds page wide masthead with a sidebar:


But I'm not pokin' fun, no no, at Darwyn Cooke. If anything, I am pointing my finger at Look magazine for not cohering to the Darwyn Cooke design.

Today in Comics History, April 17: The relative price of machine guns is determined

from Richard Stark's Parker: The Score (IDW, July 2012); adapted from the novel by Richard Stark; script, pencils, inks, color, and letters by Darwyn Cooke

Today in Comics History, April 16: The League of Sinister Cardboard Cut-Outs plots a heist

from Richard Stark's Parker: The Score (IDW, July 2012); adapted from the novel by Richard Stark; script, pencils, inks, color, and letters by Darwyn Cooke

Today in Comics History: Grofield plots to steal the Mondrian unless it's too heavy

Page from Richard Stark's Parker: The Score (July 2012); adapted from the novel by Richard Stark; script, pencils, inks, color, and letters by Darwyn Cooke

Today in Comics History: Wolverine has breakfast

Panel from Richard Stark's Parker: The Score (July 2012); adapted from the novel by Richard Stark; script, pencils, inks, color, and letters by Darwyn Cooke

Today in Comics History, April 13: Elevator rides become so long that smoking is now encouraged on them

from Richard Stark's Parker: The Score (IDW, July 2012); adapted from the novel by Richard Stark; script, pencils, inks, color, and letters by Darwyn Cooke