Today in Comics History, July 17: Happy birthday, J. Michael Straczynski!

Born on this day: film, TV and comic book writer J. Michael Straczynski, who's written such a diverse number of titles as Amazing Spider-Man, Thor, Rising Stars, Terminator: Salvation, Superman and Superman: Earth One, The Twilight Zone, Wonder Woman, Squadron Supreme, Fantastic Four, Bullet Points, Ultimate Power, and many more. JMS has even had hven his own imprint at Image, "Joe's Comics," which published his own creations: Rising Stars, Midnight Nation, Dream Police, Protectors, Inc., and Sidekick. He's the co-creator of She-Ra: Princess of Power and has written for many TV shows: The Real Ghostbusters, He-Man and the Masters of the Universe, The Twilight Zone, Jake and the Fatman, Murder, She Wrote, Walker: Texas Ranger, and more.

Here he is popping into his LCS on New Comics Day! He's just like us!


from Captain Marvel (2000 series) #30 (Marvel, May 2002), script by Peter David, pencils by Chris Cross, inks by Anibal Rodriguez and Rich Perotta, colors by Chris Sotomayor, letters by Richard Starkings and Albert Deschesne

Remember.

"I lost many, many buddies over there. Some I don't even remember their names. I can still remember their faces, I remember how they died."—Joe Hanley, infantry, WWII, Europe, as interviewed by Studs Terkel for the book "The Good War")


from The Twelve: Spearhead one-shot (Marvel, May 2010), script and pencils by Chris Weston, inks by Gary Erskine and Gary Weston, colors by Chris Chuckry, letters by Jimmy Betancourt