Today in Comics History, April 15, 1912: "Hello, I'm the Titanic! You may remember me from such blog features as last's month's 'Liberty Bell March.'"

from Time Bandits #1 one-shot (February 1982), script by Steve Parkhouse, pencils by David Lloyd, inks by John Stokes, colors by Don Warfield, letters by Irving Watanabe
(Here, to be specific. Where you can read more about the Time Bandits comic!)

Today in Comics History, April 15, 1912: Iceberg sticks around to taunt the Titanic

from "A Voyage into Forever!" in Strange Journey #3 (Farrell, February 1958), cover: artist uncredited, interior: pencils by H.C. Kiefer, inks by the Iger Shop

Today in Comics History, April 15, 1912: And no, they both wouldn't have fit on that door

from "The Tragedy of the Titanic" in Real Fact Comics #7 (DC, March 1947); script by Jack Schiff, Mort Weisinger, and/or Bernie Breslauer; pencils by Curt Swan (?)

Today in Comics History, April 15, 1912: Well, maybe they shouldn't have steered straight for the iceberg

from "Scoops...Pictures to Remember" in Real Fact Comics #3 (DC, July 1946); script by Jack Schiff, Mort Weisinge, and/or Bernie Breslauer; pencils and inks by George Roussos

Today in Comics History, April 14, 1912: You just know that guy has money invested in driftwood

from "The Tragedy of the Titanic" in Real Fact Comics #7 (DC, March 1947); script by Jack Schiff, Mort Weisinger, and/or Bernie Breslauer; pencils by Curt Swan (?)

Today in Comics History, April 14, 1912: The haunting siren song of Celine Dion leads men to their doom

from "A Voyage into Forever!" in Strange Journey #3 (Farrell, February 1958), cover: artist uncredited, interior: pencils by H.C. Kiefer, inks by the Iger Shop

Today in Comics History, April 10, 1912: "Captain's Log, April 10. I am gonna sink this bitch."

from "The Tragedy of the Titanic" in Real Fact Comics #7 (March 1947); script by Jack Schiff, Mort Weisinger, and/or Bernie Breslauer; pencils by Curt Swan (?)

Today in Comics History, April 10, 1912: Maybe launching the Titanic from under a ladder and across a black cat's path wasn't a good idea

from Strange Journey #3 (Farrell, February 1958), pencils by H.C. Kiefer, inks by the Iger Shop

Liberty Bell March, Day 22: Midnight sunshine, silent thunder, sky as black as day...only a dream away

In the 1980s, during the last few years before the arrival of the VHS and Beta videocassettes, Marvel put out a lot of comics in the genre that would soon mostly killed off: the movie adpatation comic book. They ranged from the extraordinary (Dune and...um...surely some others I'll think of later) to the forgettable (Raiders of the Lost Ark, Dragonslayer, For Your Eyes Only, Blade Runner, Howard the Duck, Buckaroo Banzai, Annie, The Muppets Take Manhattan, 2010, Willow, Xanadu (really?), Dark Crystal, Sheena, Masters of the Universe, Pinocchio and the Emperor of the Night (huh.), House II...) A genre of comic that had worked pretty well in the 1950s and 60s for Dell and Gold Key (especially in their Walt Disney movie adaptations) became passé when you could see the movie again later whenever you wanted on chunky VHS. You could5 really see Marvel throwing everything against the wall, hoping for another Star Wars-sized hit.

Still, during this period they published what I think is the only collaboration between Marvel and Monty Python...sort of. Time Bandits (1981) is not an official Python film, but it's pretty close, with script and direction by Terry Gilliam, appearances by John Cleese and Michael Palin (who also co-wrote the script), and it's produced by HandMade Films, the closest thing there is to an official Python movie studio, having been founded by George Harrison (yes, that one!) and Denis O'Brien to finance Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

Today in Comics History, April 15, 1912: Jughead joins the sixty-two other time travellers on board the Titanic

from "Unstuck in Time!" in Archie Giant Series Magazine #602 [The World of Jughead] (Archie, October 1989), script by Rich Margopoulos, pencils by Doug Crane, inks by Tom Moore, colors by Barry Grossman, letters by Bill Yoshida
"There's no Mr. Jones on our passenger list."