What's Bully Reading: The 2018 Sports Almanac

Now all I need is my time machine to win big by betting on all these sportsball games!

Fun with Comics: That's 250 teams of mutant ninjas right there

advertisement from Charlton Comcis cover-dated August 1953

Fun with Comics: "Why don't they look?"

cover of Teenage Hotrodders #1 (Charlton, April 1963), pencils by Pat Masulli, inks by Dick Giordano, letters by Jon D'Agostino


from "Last Clear Chance" in Mystery Science Theater 3000: Radar Secret Service season 5, episode 20 (Comedy Central/Best Brains, December 18, 1993), featuring Michael J. Nelson, Trace Beaulieu, and Kevin Murphy

Fun with Comics: In Which I Address the Critics of Olivia Jaimes's Nancy

(Click picture to Guy Gilchrist's Aunt Fritzi's enormous hooters-size)

Bully Doesn't Eat Food: Raspberry Geranium Fruit Pop

"Hey Bully, want a fruit pop?" ... "DO I!"


um actually no thank you

Stuff Bully Got: More P.G. Wodehouse books!

Instead of weed, I bought these at Housing Works today.


I hope 4/20 doesn't mind.

Comics at Housing Works: Riddle: What's from 1971, has John Romita artwork, and a giant hole in it?

I put out s'more backissue comics for sale today at Housing Works Bookstore and Café, and as you can see the rack is, not unlike me, stuffed!

The Adventures of Bully: National School Walkout Day

My bestest pal John is wearing his orange shirt today for National School Walkout Day because we both support the students against the horrors of gun violence in the schools.

Even tho' John hasn't been a student for a long time because he is very very very very old.


very very very very very very very very

Fun with Comics: Action Comics #1

You mean these are old ads? Awwwwwww man. I have been saving up my dimes for the Television Rifle and the Mystery Men's Secret Money Belt....ooooh, live turtle!


IMMA GONNA LEARN HOW TO TAP DANCE

Bully and His Pals: So join us here each week to see / A photo for Bull blogs / From these canine castaways / Here on the Isle of Dogs!

A Grand Day Out: Shopping at the fabulous Sawgrass Mills® Shopping Center in Sunrise, Florida

Today, as long as we're in Florida visiting Mama Otter already, John and Randi and I (well, my stunt double Flat Bully, who takes us less luggage space than I do) went to the big-ass Sawgrass Mills® Shopping Center! But it turned out instead to be the fantastic Baxter Building!

Today in Comics History, April 9, 1913: Baby Steve Rogers punches German spy at first Dodgers game

from Captain America: Sentinel of Liberty #3 (Marvel, November 1998), co-plot and script by Mark Waid, co-plot and pencils by Ron Garney, inks by Dan Green, colors by Shannon Blanchard, letters by John Costanza

Angel Love, Interpol Agent

Panels from "Double Dealers!" in Primus #1 (Charlton, February 1972), script by Joe Gill, pencils and inks by Joe Staton, colors by Christie Scheele, letters by Charlotte Jetter
and from Angel Love #1 (August 1986); script and pencils by Barbara Slate, inks by John William Lopez, colors by Bob LeRose, letters by Bill Yoshida

Fun with Comics: That's not a lion, dude

cover of Pocket Western Library (1966? series) #8 (Thorpe & Porter/Top Sellers UK), artist uncredited and unknown

Today in Comics History, April 4, 1960 (Oscar Night): Charlton Heston clubs a damn dirty ape to death with his Oscar

Hey look, it's Celebrity in Comics Charlton Heston, making on of his early and rare four-color appearances years before he would get a title of his own in Marvel's Planet of the Apes series! Don't shoot us, Chuck! Heh heh heh heh. Ehhhhh.


from Back to the Future: Biff to the Future #2 (February 2017), co-plot and script by Bob Gale, co-plot by Derek Fridolfs, pencils by Alan Robinson, inks by Alan Robinson and Jaime Castro, colors by Maria Santaolalla, letters by Chris Mowry

Comics at Housing Works: What bargains you'll find!

I put out a bunch of comic books for sale today at Housing Works Bookstore and Café! Check out the Comics Rack for some dandy backissues!

Ten of a Kind: What Do You Know About My Image Duplicator?

(More Ten of a Kind here.)

The title of this ten take-downs of Roy Lichtenstein (notice how every one of 'em has better lettering than the Larcenous Mr. L) is from this 1963 Lichtenstein artwork. You probably recognize the laid-back dude in it.


"What Do You Know About My Image Duplicator?" is...let's be frank and use the right word...plagiarized, as is most of Lichtenstein's comic-based art, from the good work of comic book writers and artists. So yeah, that's what I know about your fershluggin' image duplicator, Roy: it stinks.

Here's "Image Duplicator"'s original sources:


Panels from (L): The X-Men (1963 series) #1 (September 1963), sript by Stan Lee, pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Paul Reinman, letters by Sam Rosen
(R): "The Return of General Immortus" in My Greatest Adventure (1955 series) #84 (December 1963), script by Arnold Drake, pencils and inks by Bruno Premiani
Ooooh boy, big man Roy, rippin' off Kirby and Arnold Drake. I extend my fuzzy bare butt in your general direction.

Curiously, Roy Lichtenstein actually exists within the Marvel Universe, as seen in this set of panels from Web of Spidey #73:


Panels from Web of Spider-Man (1985 series) #73 (February 1991), script by John Byrne, pencils by Alex Saviuk, inks by Keith Williams, colors by Bob Sharen, letters by Rick Parker
Didja spot Lichtenstein-616? He's the one living in the panel that's been Lichtensteinated.


We can but hope that Lichtenstein-616 died painfully under a pile of his trash paintings when the Incursion of May 2015 destroyed the Earth.

Sure, I'm as disappointed as you are that John Byrne didn't have Peter Parker punch the daylights out of Lichtenstein, but I guess he was too busy with changing to Spider-Man and saving Alicia Storm-Masters when villains attack her art exhibit.


Me, I'm just wondering why Alicia didn't ask "Peter, why are you wearing gloves now? And why does your voice sound muffled?"

Anyway, to wrap up, what do you think about high art, Calvin and Hobbes?

Bully Eats Food: Dinosaur Bar-B-Que

We're having John's birthday dinner (a couple days late) at Dinosaur-Bar-B-Que right here in Brooklyn!


Why yes, I am gonna eat all this.

Today in Comics History, April 1, 1948: Jealous of Batman's success, Green Lantern also gets himself a joke-themed nemesis

from "The April Fool's Day Crimes!" in Comic Cavalcade #27 (DC, June 1948), script by John Broome, pencils and inks by Alex Toth
Oh hey! Today also appears to be the day Doiby Dickles was killed by gangsters.

Other heroes that Green Lantern appear to be jealous of include Fawcett's Captain Marvel, what with Billy Batson working in a radio station...


And, despite the fact that they would not premiere for another thirteen years...the Fantastic Four and their trademark flare alert!


Jealous, jealous, Alan Scott. No wonder they called him the Green Lantern!

That supervillain the Fool certain is some kind of criminal joker, isn't he? (nudge nudge wink wink)


Eh, on closer inspector, he really is much more of a Riddler. Your compulsion to leave clues will continue to be your downfall, guys! I'm jus' sayin'.


Anyway, all's fool that ends fool! Happy April Fool's Day!

The 1990 2018 Marvel Age Calendar: Fantastic Four

"The 1990 Marvel Age Calendar: April" from Marvel Age #88 (May 1990); text by Chris Eliopolous and Barry Dutter, art by Ron Zalme, colors by Gregory Wright
(Click picture to Aprilize)