Today in Comics History, April 18, 1938: Why so obsessed with today, Dr. Manhattan?

from Doomsday Clock #10 (DC, July 2019), script by Geoff Johns, pencils and inks by Gary Frank, colors by Brad Anderson, letters by Rob Leigh



from Doomsday Clock #11 (DC, November 2019), script by Geoff Johns, pencils and inks by Gary Frank, colors by Brad Anderson, letters by Rob Leigh





from Doomsday Clock #12 (DC, February 2020), script by Geoff Johns, pencils and inks by Gary Frank, colors by Brad Anderson, letters by Rob Leigh
That's right, Dr. Manhattan. All along the world was just waiting for this guy to do this:


cover of Action Comics (1938 series) #1 (DC, June 1938), pencils and inks by Joe Shuster, colors by Jack Adler

Ten of a Kind #45 and Today in Comics History, April 18, 1938: A thumb goes up, a car goes by/Oh, won't somebody stop and help a guy?

Ever been in this situation?: you've making a list of a specific number of things, like, say, six things, or twelve things...or even ten things...and you've got five, eleven, or maybe, just as an example, nine dandy things to put in that list, but you just can't find the last one to make it all come together? And you search and search and you know you may just be missing that last final item to make your list complete, and you're contemplating tossing the whole list out, or even this close to posting it as an incomplete list of, say, just off the top of my head, nine of a kind and asking other people to suggest a final tenth thing...

...And then that very same week a brand-new tenth thing plops into your lap and gives you the complete ten of a kind you needed all along?

That, my friends...is serendipity.




















(Image from Superman Returns, 2006)
Separated at Birth, Sunday Division: Is it just me or did the cover artist for Fallen Angel #15 totally reference the still from Superman Returns or what? (Look at the identical door panels, for instance).



Bonus spot-the-difference-question for Bully No-Prize points: what did Todd McFarlane do wrong?

More of a Kind Department (edit on 4/24/07): I do indeed have the best readers in the blogamajigasphere, since all the time I was scratchin' my little stuffed head over that tenth image until Fallen Angel appeared before my button eyes on the racks, they could come up with more in the wink of an eye:

• Jayunderscorezero (or, as I like to call him, J_0) shows us Wonder Woman singing "Anything Kal can do, I can do better" on the cover of Sensation Comics #51.
• JR (Look out, JR! Duck! Sue Ellen's got a gun!) provides a Superman cover I'm especially embarassed to have missed since I was scanning all the Supes series most carefully for another version. It's from a different angle but that freaked-out guy in the corner tells you all you need to know on the cover of Superman #654.
• Siskoid from the utterly nerdalicious Siskoid's Blog of Geekery shows us that Mister Freak-Out has an Earth-616 counterpart when The Fantastic Three get a piece of the action in Fantastic Four #291. Whoa, instead of a tire bouncing to the ground, there's a guy! Hardcore, Miss Walters.
• Siskoid also provides a rare example of car-wreckin' action I've never even seen before, on the cover of Jupiter #7. Man, it's a wonder those 1938 sedans weren't recalled after they were all crumpled so easily by superfolk.
• Anonymous proves beyond all reasonable doubt that old maxim "Give a squirrel a big enough lever and he can move the world," in Wacky Squirrel Comics #4. Also: freakin'-out bulldog!
• Bully (oh wait, that's me!) just found another one. When he's not fraggin' Santa, terrorizin' Jenny Quantum, or oglin' topless Koriand'r, The Main Man enjoys a little comic homaging on the cover of the Lobo Convention Special.
• TV-watchin' ]{0MBAT (gosh! how does he make his name do that?) points out a Supes-liftin' homage in the "no tights, no flights, no Dark Knights" universe of Smallville and sent me a lovely screencap.

(More Ten of a Kind here.)