Today in Comics History, January 23: Happy birthday, Captain Storm!

No, no, not Johnny Storm's little-seen starship commander uncle...but Captain William Storm of WWII, PT boat captain and leader of The Losers, over in the DC Universe. An' today's his birthday!


from Super DC Calendar 1976 (DC, 1975), letters by Ben Oda

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When I saw this house ad for the following issue in Doctor Who Classics #4, I got really excited...


...(incidentally: Photo Reference Sighted Off the Starboard Bow, sir!)...



...I got really excited not because Sylvester McCoy's Seventh Doctor was going to meet Sarah Jane Smith, the companion of the Third and Fourth and Tenth Doctors (and only those three Doctors, if you want to pay attention to a silly little thing called canon):


Panels from "Train-Flight" in Doctor Who Classics Series V #5 (October 2013), script by Andrew Donkin and Graham S. Brand, pencils and inks by John Ridgeway, letters by Glib, new coloring by Charlie Kirchoff, originally published in Doctor Who Magazine #159 (April 1990), "with thanks to London Buses and British Rail for reference material"
But rather because the cover features One of My Favorite Things in the Whole Wide World™, The London Underground Map.

365 Days of DC House Ads, Day 313: That's 144 pages for 75¢, if you weren't keeping track

Three house ads printed in Batman #238 (January 1972)
for (top to bottom) The Phantom Stranger #17 (January-February 1972);
[Son of] Tomahawk #138 (January-February 1972);
Our Fighting Forces #135 [The Losers] (January-February 1972)

Comic cover art: The Phantom Stranger #17: pencils and inks by Neal Adams
Tomahawk #138 and Our Fighting Forces #135: pencils and inks by Joe Kubert
Ads designed and lettered by Gaspar Saladino