Today in Comics History Future, January 17, 3828: Iceman gets a job pushing robots into deep space

from "00:00:03:00" in Time Warp one-shot (May 2013), script by Ray Fawkes, pencils and inks by Andy MacDonald, colors by Lee Loughridge, letters by Sal Cipriano

Today in Comics History., December 17, 1916: Rasputin dies infamously, giving Len Wein the inspiration for another ethnic character name

from "The Principle," in Time Warp (2013 series) #1 one-shot (DC/Vertigo, May 2013); script by Dan Abnett; pencils, inks, and colors by I. N. J. Culbard, letters by Jared K. Fletcher

Today in Comics History, August 15, 2042: Rip Hunter begins to regret not carrying a paper and pencil

from "R. I. P." in Time Warp #1 one-shot (DC/Vertigo May 2013), script by David Lindelof, pencils and inks by Jeff Lemire, colors by Jose Villarrubia, letters by Travis Lanham

365 Days of DC House Ads, Day 158: DC takes out advertising space on Wonder Woman's rear end*

Two-page house ad for World of Krypton #2 (August 1979), All-Out War #1 (September-October 1979), and Time Warp #1 (October-November 1979), printed in Batman #313 (July 1979)

Comic cover art: World of Krypton #2: pencils by Ross Andru, inks by Dick Giordano
All-Out War #1: pencils and inks by Joe Kubert, colors by Tatjana Wood
Time Warp #1: pencils and inks by Mike Kaluta

(Click picture to Rao-size)

A couple observations: the ad appears to say that the World of Krypton issue is #3, but that's actually the cover to #2.


And notice that two of the captions on the ad version of All-Out War are changed by the time the comic goes to press: "The Viking from Hell" becomes "The Viking Commando"; seeing as this is his first appearance, it's a good thing they decided on a name that wouldn't have the comic taken away from newsstands by parents irate over the double hockey-sticks word. (Altho' you could definitely buy the comic book Son of Satan.) And thankfully, "Soul Brother with Wings" become just "Brother with Wings." Also: The Viking Commando got an Army helmet pasted onto his head. All he needs now is a pair of little wings pasted onto the helmet.



*Once you've seen it, you can't unsee it.

365 Days of DC House Ads, Day 24

House ad for Time Warp #4 (April-May 1980); printed in Detective Comics #489 (April 1980)
Comic cover art: pencils and inks by Mike Kaluta
Ad designed and lettered by Gaspar Saladino

Son of Well, That'll Happen!

Splash page from Time Warp #1 (October-November 1979), script by George Kashdan, pencils and inks by Dick Giordano, colors by Jerry Serpe, letters by Milton Snapinn