The August 1968 2024 Calendar for This Menacing Year

Come on, man! Time to answer your landline to participate in a Republican-backed phone poll that will be presented as representing 100% of the population of America instead of the sliver of percentage who answer blind calls and still have a telephone that won't fit in your pocket. Lookin' at you, Mom. Anyway, this little stuffed bull gives you the permission to ignore your phone all month.


from Spider-Man: Marvels Snapshots #1 (one-shot) (Marvel, December 2020); script, pencils, and inks by Howard Chaykin; colors by Jesus Aburtov; letters by Ken Bruzenak
Instead, why not cool off in August by divin' into the pool of a complete stranger as suggested by this real calendar you can use all thru this month of August 2024, huh? Wow, McGruff the Crime Dog can't get to Dennis's neighborhood fast enough.


"August 1968" from Dennis the Menace Giant #51 [Dennis the Menace Christmas Special] (Hallden/Fawcett, Winter 1967), creators unidentified and unknown

Remember: don't pick up your phone! It might just be Ghostface.

(And oh yeah, PS: here's a calendar you can use if you're only gonna be around the last two weeks of August. Like, say, if you come out of a coma on the 18th or somethin'.)


from Spider-Gwen: Gwen-Verse #2 (Marvel, June 2022), script by Tim Seeley, pencils and inks by Jodi Nishijima, colors by Federico Blee, letters by Ariana Maher

365 Days of Power and Responsibility, Day 47: Old Guys with White Beards Theatre Presents, Part 2

Panels from Spider-Gwen (December 2015 series) #1 (December 2015), pencils by Jason Latour, pencils and inks by Robbi Rodriguez, colors by Rico Renzi, letters by Clayton Cowles

365 Days of Power and Responsibility, Day 23: Who's That Girl

Oh no! Spider-Gwen is in trouble! And for once it's not because she can't decide what to title her comic book. No, The Divine Ms. S. is having problems with her powers (well, ain't that just the Parker Stacy luck!) It's fortunate she has as her pal the local science prodigy, Reed Richards (no, no that one) builds her a couple power bands (©1969 Rick Jones & Mar-Vell) that provide her with the oomph she needs to take a bite out of crime.


Panels from Spider-Gwen (December 2015 series) #11 (June 2016), co-plot by Dennis Hopeless and Robbie Thompson, co-plot and script by Jason Latour, pencils and inks by Bengal, colors by Rico Renzi, letters by Clayton Cowles
Do you know what comes with phenomenal cosmic power?!?


That's right! You know the drill:


Less dramatic, but also of note: Gwen's Earth-65 gets the best fast-food mascots.

365 Days of Power and Responsibility, Day 16: Extra, extra, read all about it

Panels from Spider-Gwen (December 2015 series) #1 (December 2015), script by Jason Latour, pencils and inks by Robbi Rodriguez, colors by Rico Renzi, letters by Clayton Cowles

366 Days with J. Jonah Jameson, Day 240: Whose Earth is it, anyway?

Panels from Spider-Gwen (December 2015 series) #8 (July 2016), script by Jason Latour, pencils and inks by Bengal, colors by Rico Renzi, letters by Clayton Cowles and Travis Lanham
Wait, I thought you weren't allowed to call it Earth-616 after Secret Wars...?

I DEMAND A NO-PRIZE!

Today in Comics History, June 6, 2015: Black Cat steals Joan Jett's band

from Spider-Gwen (April 2015 series) #5 (Marvel, August 2015), script by Jason Latour, pencils and inks by Robbi Rodriguez, colors by Rico Renzi, letters by Clayton Cowles