Today in Comics History, November 20: Happy birthday, Ming-Na Wen!

Born on this day: actor Ming-Na Wen, who voiced the title character in Disney's Mulan!


from Mulan (Disney Comics, 2013), absolutely no creator credits at all. Shame on you, Disney.
And Detective Ellen Yin in the 2004-2008 animated The Batman!



from The Batman Strikes! #9 (DC, July 2005), script by Bill Matheny, pencils by Christopher Jones, inks by Terry Beatty, colors by Heroic Age, letters by Pat Brosseau
And she played Melinda "The Cavalry" May in Agents of SHIELD!



covers from The Cavalry: SHIELD 50th Anniversary one-shot (Marvel, November 2015), by (top) Dale Keown and (bottom) John Tyler Christopher
Happy birthday, Ming-Na! And this time next year I hope there'll be a Fennec Shand comic book!

Captain Tootsie Month, Day 21: Wouldn't it have made more sense to replace the rope, then carry on with the show?

"Captain Tootsie in The Show Must Go On!" from World's Finest Comics #46 (June-July 1950), bi Bill Schreiber
Sadly, the Farrell Sisters appear to be fictional, or I'd be regaling you here with a YouTube clip of their exciting highwire antics. So let's watch this one again.

366 Days with Alfred Pennyworth, Day 199

Alfred (voiced by Alastair Duncan) and the young Bruce Wayne in The Batman "Traction" (September 18, 2004), written by Adam Beechen, directed by Sam Liu