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1966 In Comics
Events and publications Year overall * Myron Fass founds Eerie Publications and M. F. Enterprises *In Italian comics, Italy, while the success of Satanik generates several Fumetti neri, black comics with female protagonists (''Samantha, Masokis, Super women, Jena''), all short lived, the writer and publisher Renzo Barbieri launches the first explicitly erotic comics (the spy-story ''Goldrake'', the peplum ''Messalina'', the swashbuckler ''Isabella (comics), Isabella''). January * January 1: The final episode of Theo Fünke Kupper's ''De Verstrooide Professor'' is published. * January 4: Greg (comics), Greg and Hermann Huppen, Hermann's ''Bernard Prince'' makes his debut. * January 8: The final issue of the Italian comics magazine ''Il Vittorioso'' is published. * January 9: For the first time since 1952 a new episode of Will Eisner's ''The Spirit'' is published. * January 21: The final episode of Pieter Kuhn's ''Kapitein Rob'' is published. The artist died one day earlier. * J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Myron Fass
Myron Fass (March 29, 1926 - September 14, 2006)Social Security Death Index, SS# 111-18-9098. was an American publisher of pulp magazines and comic books, operating from the 1950s through the 1990s under a multitude of company names, including M. F. Enterprises and Eerie Publications. At his height in the 1970s, Fass was known as the biggest multi-title newsstand magazine publisher in the country. He put out up to fifty titles a month, many of them one-offs, covering any subject matter he thought would sell, from soft-core pornography to professional wrestling, UFOs to punk rock, horror films to firearm magazines. Biography Early life Fass was born in Brooklyn, New York, the son of an Orthodox Jewish laborer.Brinkman, Tom"Myron Fass — Demon God of Pulp," Bad Mags. Accessed Aug. 10, 2011. Comics artist Starting in 1948 and until the mid-1950s shrinkage of the industry initiated by the institution of the Comics Code, Fass illustrated horror, crime, romance, Western, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1938 In Comics
Events and publications January * January 24: In Ernie Bushmiller's ''Fritzi Ritz'' Nancy first meets her sidekick friend Sluggo. * ''Ace Comics'' (1937 series) #10 - David McKay Publications * ''Detective Comics'' (1937 series) #11 - DC Comics * ''Famous Funnies'' (1934 series) #42 - Eastern Color Printing * ''Feature Funnies'' (1937 series) #4 - Comic Favorites, Inc. * ''The Funnies'' #16 - Dell Comics * ''More Fun Comics'' (1936 series) #28 - National Periodical Publications * '' New Adventure Comics'' (1937 series) #23 - National Periodical Publications February * February 2: First publication of Bob Karp and Al Taliaferro's ''Donald Duck'' newspaper comic strip. * ''Ace Comics'' (1937 series) #11 - David McKay Publications * ''Detective Comics'' (1937 series) #12 - DC Comics * ''Famous Funnies'' (1934 series) #43 - Eastern Color Printing * ''Feature Funnies'' (1937 series) #5 - Comic Favorites, Inc. * ''More Fun Comics'' (1936 series) #29 - National Periodical Publicat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Cannon, Thunderbolt
Peter Cannon, Thunderbolt is a fictional superhero character originally published by Charlton Comics. Publication history Charlton Comics The character debuted in ''Peter Cannon ... Thunderbolt'' #1 (Jan. 1966), part of Charlton editor Dick Giordano's "Action Heroes" superhero line. The series then took over the numbering of the defunct title '' Son of Vulcan'', and ran from issue #51–60 (March/April 1966 – November 1967), after which Morisi, a New York City Police Department officer and time-pressed with police work, left the title, which was canceled along with the rest of Charlton's "Action Heroes" comics line. There were several backup series in ''Thunderbolt''. "The Sentinels", by Gary Friedrich (writing his first superhero stories) and penciler-inker Sam Grainger, appeared in #54–59, and #60 had the Prankster, written by Dennis O'Neil with art by Jim Aparo. Morisi, who'd done work for Lev Gleason Publications in 1940s, reported in ''Comic Book Artist'' #9 (Augus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jim Mooney
James Noel Mooney (August 13, 1919 – March 30, 2008) was an American comics artist best known for his long tenure at DC Comics and as the signature artist of Supergirl, as well as a Marvel Comics inker and Spider-Man artist, both during what comics historians and fans call the Silver Age of Comic Books and what is known as the Bronze Age of Comic Books. He sometimes inked under the pseudonym Jay Noel. Biography Early life and career Jim Mooney was born in New York City and raised in Los Angeles. Friends with pulp-fiction author Henry Kuttner and Californian science-fiction fans such as Forrest J. Ackerman, he drew the cover for the first issue of ''Imagination'', an Ackerman fanzine that included Ray Bradbury's first published story, " Hollerbochen's Dilemma". Kuttner encouraged the teenaged Mooney to submit art to Farnsworth Wright, the editor of the pulp magazine for which Kuttner was writing, ''Weird Tales''. Mooney's first professional sale was an illustration f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dial H For Hero
''Dial H for Hero'' is a comic book feature published by DC Comics about a magical dial that enables an ordinary person to become a superhero for a short time, such as an hour, by selecting the letters H-E-R-O in order. Each time it is used, the dial causes its possessor to become a superhero with a different name, costume, and powers. These superheroes are usually new, but on one occasion the dial caused its user to become a duplicate of Plastic Man.''House of Mystery'' #160 (July 1966) Some versions of the dial, like the original, contain additional letters, allowing other kinds of transformations. The title of the series is a play on the title of the 1954 American crime mystery film directed by Alfred Hitchcock titled ''Dial M for Murder''. Original series The original series debuted in ''House of Mystery'' #156 (January 1966), and continued until issue #173 (March–April 1968). The art was by Jim Mooney (though he did not finish the run), with scripts by Dave Wood. The origin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1951 In Comics
Events January * January 27: The '' Nero'' story ''De Zwarte Voeten'' is first published in the newspapers. Halfway the story the main cast member Meneer Pheip makes his debut. *''Action Comics (1938 series) #152'' - DC Comics *''Adventure Comics (1938 series) #160'' - DC Comics *''Adventures Into the Unknown! (1948 series) #19'' - American Comics Group *'' Adventures of Alan Ladd (1949 series) #9'' - DC Comics *'' Airboy (as Airboy Vol. 7) (1942 series) #12'' - Hillman Periodicals *''All Star Comics (becomes All Star Western) (1948 series) #58'' - DC Comics *'' Amazing Adventures ( 1950 series) #2'' - Ziff-Davis Publishing Company *'' Amazing Detective Cases ( 1950 series) #4'' - Atlas Comics *''Archie Comics (1946 series) #48'' - Archie Publications *'' Archie's Girls Betty and Veronica ( 1950 series) #7'' - Archie Publications *'' Archie's Pal Jughead (1949 series) #8'' - Archie Publications *''Archie's Rival Reggie ( 1950 series) #2'' - Archie Publications *'' Blackhaw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
House Of Mystery
''The House of Mystery'' is the name of several horror, fantasy, and mystery Comics anthologies published by DC Comics. It had a companion series, ''The House of Secrets''. It is also the name of the titular setting of the series. First series Genesis ''The House of Mystery'' started out as a horror anthology, featuring tales of the supernatural as well as supernatural-themed mystery stories. Issue #1 was cover dated December-January 1951. With the growing backlash against American horror comics in the mid-1950s, as well as the advent of the Comics Code Authority and its restrictions on horror-themed storylines (banning stories dealing with such supernatural fare as vampires and werewolves), the series was quietly revamped into dealing with science fiction-type monsters and other mystery/suspense-type tales that were permitted by the Comics Code. Superheroes In the mid-1960s, the series was revamped to include superhero stories. From ''The House of Mystery'' #143 (June 1964) t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Murphy Anderson
Murphy C. Anderson Jr. (July 9, 1926 – October 22, 2015) was an American comics artist, known as one of the premier inkers of his era, who worked for companies such as DC Comics for over fifty years, starting in the Golden Age of Comic Books in the 1940s. He worked on such characters as Hawkman, Batgirl, Zatanna, the Spectre, and Superman, as well as on the ''Buck Rogers'' daily syndicated newspaper comic strip. Anderson also contributed for many years to '' PS'', the preventive maintenance comics magazine of the U.S. Army. Early life and career Murphy Anderson was born on July 9, 1926, in Asheville, North Carolina, and while in grade school moved with his family to Greensboro, North Carolina. After graduating high school in 1943, he briefly attended the University of North Carolina before moving to New York City seeking work in the comics industry, and was hired by Jack Byrne as a staff artist at the comic-book publisher Fiction House. His first confirmed credit is the two-and- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gardner Fox
Gardner Francis Cooper Fox (May 20, 1911 – December 24, 1986) was an American writer known best for creating numerous comic book characters for DC Comics. He is estimated to have written more than 4,000 comics stories, including 1,500 for DC Comics. Fox was also a science fiction author and wrote many novels and short stories. Fox is known as the co-creator of DC Comics heroes Barbara Gordon, the original Flash, Hawkman, Doctor Fate, Zatanna and the original Sandman, and was the writer who first teamed several of those and other heroes as the Justice Society of America, and later recreated the team as the Justice League of America. Fox introduced the concept of the Multiverse to DC Comics in the 1961 story "Flash of Two Worlds!" Early life and career Gardner F. Fox was born in Brooklyn, New York City, the son of Julia Veronica (Gardner) and Leon Francis Fox, an engineer. Fox recalled being inspired at an early age by the great fantasy fiction writers. On or about his eleve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shrike
Shrikes () are passerine birds of the family Laniidae. The family is composed of 34 species in four genera. The family name, and that of the largest genus, ''Lanius'', is derived from the Latin word for "butcher", and some shrikes are also known as butcherbirds because of their feeding habits. The common English name shrike is from Old English , alluding to the shrike's shriek-like call. Distribution, migration, and habitat Most shrike species have a Eurasian and African distribution, with just two breeding in North America (the loggerhead and northern shrikes). No members of this family occur in South America or Australia, although one species reaches New Guinea. The shrikes vary in the extent of their ranges, with some species, such as the great grey shrike, ranging across the Northern Hemisphere; to the Newton's fiscal, which is restricted to the island of São Tomé. They inhabit open habitats, especially steppe and savannah. A few species of shrikes are forest dwell ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1964 In Comics
''See also'': 1963 in comics, 1965 in comics, 1960s in comics and the list of years in comics Publications: January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December Publications January * January 1: Jaxon's '' God Nose'' makes its debut. It's one of the earliest underground comix. * January 6: Jay Heavilin and Frank B. Johnson's ''Einstein'' makes its debut. It will run until 13 February 1965. * January 10 - March 23: Berlin v. E.C. Publications, Inc.: The estates of Irving Berlin and other songwriters sue EC Comics over a parody in Mad Magazine special #11, but lose their case. * January 11: The first issue of the British illustrated girls' magazine '' Jackie'' is published. It will run until 3 July 1993. * January 23: in ''Pilote'', first chapter of ''L'Œuf de Karamazout'', by Jidehem, of the series '' Starter''; Sophie makes her debut. * January 24: The final issue of Hans G. Kresse's '' Eric de Noorman'' is publishe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hawkman
Hawkman is the name of several superheroes appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. Created by writer Gardner Fox and artist Dennis Neville, the original Hawkman first appeared in ''Flash Comics'' #1, published by All-American Publications in 1940. Several incarnations of Hawkman have appeared in DC Comics, all of them characterized by the use of archaic weaponry and by large, artificial wings, attached to a harness made from the special Nth metal that allows flight. Most incarnations of Hawkman work closely with a partner/romantic interest named Hawkgirl or Hawkwoman. Hawkman is most often depicted as human archaeologist Hawkman (Carter Hall), Carter Hall—the modern-day reincarnation of an ancient Egyptian prince named Khufu—or as Thanagarian police officer Hawkman (Katar Hol), Katar Hol from the planet Thanagar. The character is generally regarded as having one of the most confusing backstories of any in DC Comics, due to a series of reinventions over the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
