Anticipate the Awesome in August!

It's the first of the month! But we already know about August, don't we?


from "Listening to the Mockingbird" in Action Comics Weekly #601 (DC, May 24, 1988), script by Martin Pasko, pencils and inks by Dan Spiegle, colors by Carl Gafford, letters by Carrie Spiegle
But that doesn't help with our yen for an August Calendar, does it? (Hint: it does not.) Here's a lovingly rendered illustrated from a romance story that includes both of the elements of love: an August calendar and peanut butter. Clip it out and stick it to your wall not with peanut butter.


from "Mix-Up Manor" in Sweet Sixteen (1946 series) #12 (Parents' Magazine Press, December 1947), story by Ruth Dorval Jones, pencils and inks by Edd Ashe
Well, obviously that won't do. So stay tuned for actual comic book calendars you can actually use in 2023!

Boy, I went a little dark on the alt-text on this one, I think.

Today in Comics History, December 24, Christmas Eve: See Dirinda, this is why you have lots of friends!

Poor Dirinda doesn't have any friends. Or...does she?




from "A Date 'Neath the Mistletoe" in Sweet Sixteen (1946 series) #12 (Parents' Magazine Press, December 1947), creators uncredited and unknown
Now there's a Christmas lesson we can all learn: Don't be a jerk / Boys'll come over and twerk." I think.

Today in Comics History, December 23: See Dirinda, this is why you don't have any friends

from "A Date 'Neath the Mistletoe" in Sweet Sixteen (1946 series) #12 (Parents' Magazine, December 1947), creators uncredited and unknown
Oh no! Will Dirinda survive to conquer Christmas? Stay tuned!

Today in Comics History, June 9: Happy birthday, Robert Cummings!

Born on this day in 1910: film and TV actor Robert Cummings (Kings Row, Saboteur, Dial M for Murder, The Devil and Miss Jones, The Bob Cummings Show, and others)!



from Miss Beverly Hills of Hollywood #4 (DC, September 1949), pencils and inks by Bob Oksner
As good pal Andrew Weiss, paragon of pop culture, pointed out to me, Bob also starred alongside future Catwoman Julie Newmar in the 1964 CBS comedy My Living Doll, "a show that paralleled the Doc Magnus/Platinum relationship," Andrew says.



Say!



"Cue to Cummings" in Sweet Sixteen #12 (Parents' Magazine Press, December 1947), text by Kay Deane"
How popular is Bob Cummings? So popular that even Batman is a fan!


from All-Star Squadron Annual #3 (DC, September 1984), script by Roy Thomas, pencils by Don Newton, inks by Mike Machlan, colors by Gene D'Angelo, letters by David Cody Weiss and L. Lois Buhalis
Happy birthday, Bob!