Today in Comics History, May 23, 1983 and 2001: Bad News, Good News

There are newspapers! Of course there are. Well, let's read the terrible headline first:


from Back to the Future: Biff to the Future #5 (IDW, June 2017), story and script by Bob Gale and Derek Fridolfs, pencils by Alan Robinson, inks by Alan Robinson and Jaime Castro, colors by Maria Santaolalla, letter by Shawn Lee
GREAT SCOTT! How's Doc Brown gonna get out of this one? Oh! (sees there is one issue left) Well, it's not like a comic book ever served up a cliffhanger before, but I'll wait and see.

Meanwhile, here's the good news, or at least the puff piece. Really, was it that newsless in Metropolis on that day, Perry?



from Wonder Woman (1987 series) #170 (July 2001), script by Phil Jimenez and Joe Kelly, pencils by Phil Jimenez, inks by Andy Lanning, colors by Patricia Mulvihill, color separations by Heroic Age, letters by Comicraft
Geez, why doncha marry her, Lois?

Today in Comics History, May 22, 1948: Clint and Barney Barton Go Bad

from "The Barton Brothers!" in Star-Spangled Comics #86 (DC, November 1948), script by Bill Finger (?), pencils and inks by Jim Mooney, letters by Ira Schnapp
Now Robin, there was a boy! Wouldn't you agree, Nat "King" Cole?


"Nature Boy" by Nat King Cole (Capitol, 1947), written by eden ahbez

Today in Comics History, May 20, 1775: The JLA claims North Carolina through the cunning use of flags

North Carolina variant cover of Justice League of America (2013 series) #1 (DC, April 2013), pencils and inks by David Finch
Déjà vu?

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?