‮Today in Comics History, September 7, 2022: A Great Metropolitan Newspaper‭

‮from Earth-Prime #2: Superman and Lois (DC, June 2022), text by Adam Mallinger‭
I'm pretty sure that should read "2021," but hey, you can never tell what typos are on Bizarro-World.

Today in Comics History, September 7, 1956: The night my dad told my mom he was just going out for cigarettes

from "UFOs in the Animal Kingdom" in UFO Flying Saucers #12 (Western/Gold Key, November 1976), pencils and inks by Jack Sparling

Today in Comics History, September 7: Happy birthday, Rob Tokar!

Born on this day: Rob Tokar, Marvel Comics assistant editor and editor in the late eighties and early nineties, as well as occasional scripter and colorist (The Punisher, What If...?, The Avengers, NFL SuperPro, more)! Since then he's worked at Disney, Blizzard, TokyoPop and Tokartoons!


from Marvel Age #93 and 105 (Marvel, October 1990 and October 1991), text by Chris Eliopoulis & Barry Dutter (#103) and Mike Lackey (#105), pencils and inks by Ron Zalme, colors by Marie Javins (#93) and Renee Witterstaetter (#105)
Happy birthday, Rob!

Today in Comics History, September 7, 1968: Same as it ever was

from The 'Nam #32 (Marvel, June 1989), script by Doug Murray, pencils by Wayne Vansant, inks by Geof Isherwood, colors and letters by Phil Felix

Today in Comics History, September 7, 1959: Happy birthday, Huntress!

from Infinity Inc. (1984 series) #7 (DC, October 1984), text by Joey Cavalieri
Happy birthday, Helena Wayne!


from "From Each Ending...A Beginning!" in DC Super Stars #17 (DC, November 1977), script by Paul Levitz, pencils by Joe Staton, inks by Bob Layton, colors by Anthony Tollin, letters by Ben Oda

Today in Comics History, September 7: Nancy still keeps receipts yet again

Nancy (United Feature Syndicates, July 13, 2021), by Olivia Jaimes
Have some déjà vu from March 30, June 6 and August 21? Then see y'all back here for this strip once again on October 6!

Today in Comics History, September 7: Happy birthday, Chrissie Hynde!

Born on this date, the Queen of Rock 'n' Roll, Chrissie Hynde of the Pretenders!


from "Ralph Carney" in American Splendor: Our Movie Year (Random House, December 2004), script by Harvey Pekar; pencils, inks, and letters by Gary Dumm
Happy birthday, Chrissie!


"Don't Get Me Wrong" by the Pretenders (Real Records/Sire, 1986), written by Chrissie Hynde

Today in Comics History, September 7, 1968: The day Ben Grimm fell on top of Peter Parker and kinda squished him

from Sub-Mariner (1968 series) #8 (December 1968), script by Roy Thomas, pencils by John Buscema, inks by Dan Adkins, letters by Sam Rosen

Today in Comics History, September 7: Happy birthday, James "Rhodey" Rhodes!

It's Rhodey's birthday and Elektra is all broken up about his death and HOLY COW THAT'S TONY STARK


from Invincible Iron Man #599 (June 2018), script by Brian Michael Bendis, pencils and inks by Stefano Caselli, colors by Marte Gracia, letters by Clayton Cowles

Today in Comics History, September 7, 1893: Amnesia?!? Where were you last month during Amnesia August, young man?

from Back to the Future (2015 series) #18 (IDW, March 2017), co-plot by by Bob Gale, co-plot and script by John Barber, pencils by Marcelo Ferreira, inks by Maria Keane, colors by José Luis Río, letters by Shawn Lee

Today in Comics History, September 7, 2009: Maps now handily come with the word "map" on the top of them

from Ciudad #2 (Oni, November 2014), story by Ande Parks, Joe Russo, and Antony Russo; script by Ande Parks, pencils and inks by Fernando León González

Today in Comics History, September 7: Well, it beats watching a rerun of American Dad

from "Roy Raymond's Greatest Challenge" in Detective Comics #240 (DC, February 1957), pencils and inks by Ruben Moreira

Today in Comics History, September 7: Ye Green Arrow comic book ye uses lots of ye's

from "The Diary of a Desperado" in Adventure Comics #145 (DC, October 1949), script by Otto Binder, pencils and inks by George Papp

Today in Comics History, September 7: Batman begins...to regret buying a diary that only goes up to September 7th

from Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight #73 (DC, July 1995), script by James Robinson, pencils and inks by John Watkiss, colors by Digital Chameleon, letters by Willie Schubert