Born on this day in : the Queen of Jazz Ella Fitzgerald One of my favorite vocalists, her jazz vocalizations and scat rhythm singing provide us with a large library of popular and entartining recordings across six decades. And yes, she even got her own comic book feature And without the usual...

   Born on this day in : the guy who thought he was an alien cop until Marvel remembered he was supposed to live in the world outside your window: John Tensen, Justice from Justice series Marvel New Universe, August , creators unidentified and unknown

   Look at me, I’m a L.S.B. ...and I’m here to wish a very happy birthday to Miss Sandra Dee, born on this day in You may remember Sandra from such fine movies as The Reluctant Debutante, A Stranger in My Arms, Gidget, That Funny Feeling, The Daughters of Joshua Cabe, and of course that ...

   Born on this day: film director, producer, screenwriter and author Michael Moore of fame for Roger Me, Bowling for Columbine, Fahrenheit , and let us not forget, Canadian Bacon and more . Moore’s movies have attracted controversial attention for his extreme liberal views and weighting his...

   Born on this day: comics scripter Stephanie Phillips Harley Quinn, Grim, Wonder Woman: Evolution, Taarna the Last Taarakian, A Man Among Ye, Nuclear Family, Capwolf the Howling Commandos and many more DC Nation from DC Comics cover dated January Happy birthday, Stephanie

   from Last Days of the Justice Society Special one shot DC, July , co plot and script by Roy Thomas, co plot by Dann Thomas, pencils by David Ross, inks by Mike Gustovich, colors by Carl Gafford, letters by David Cody Weiss

   Born on this day in : the th President of the United States James Buchanan, who, let’s face it, wasn’t all that great. More to the point, it’s nigh impossible to find actual references to him in comic books because search results are clogged up by you know who. But I did find a couple comic...

   from Larry Doby, Baseball Hero one shot Fawcett, , script by Charles Dexter

   Born on this day in : Romantic painter you mean, like Pepe le Pew J. M. W. Turner, known for his pastoral landscapes and his dramatic paintings of ships at sea. And not known for his appearances in comic books, of which I could find none, altho’ he might be on the inside of this book, which...

   Born on this day in : actor Ralph Byrd, who appeared in dozens of movies and film serials across two decades, including The Trigger Trio, S.O.S. Tidal Wave, The Howards of Virginia, The Mark of Zorro, North West Mounted Police, The Son of Monte Cristo, Rudyard Kipling’s Jungle Book, Radar...

   Please wish a happy bithday to porcupine impersonator and true inventor of the grunge look, Mutator from D.P. Marvel New Universe, December , pencils by Paul Ryan

   from The Multiversity: Mastermen one shot DC, April ; script by Grant Morrison; pencils by Jim Lee; inks by Scott Williams, Sandra Hope, Mark Irwin, and Jonathan Glapion; colors by Alex Sinclair and Jeromy Cox; letters by Rob Leigh

   This is actually from a couple months ago on February , but I forgot to give it a proper number until now, so it goes in here Gee, that’s convenient. As seen in The Sun newspaper So that’s the sole decent thing worth reading in The Sun. I was initially annoyed that there were no...

   IMLSO, it’s her finest album and certainly my favorite. This new edition has a second disc with her MTV Unplugged presentation of the songs on the album, too Also: What’s Bully Reading : â : k.d. Lang’s Ingenue, by Joanna McNamey Stein. Randi got John a whole bunch of...

   Probably the final Byrne project that I liked, altho’ a lot of his little peccadillos are very obvious here. He forces in retcons of characters that haven’t yet appeared in the X Men’s history Storm, Phoenix , and splits up the cast of characters in issue whom we don’t see them back all...

   These are beautiful and brilliant and Cole should be mentioned in the same breath as Eisner. Alas. Perhaps some tragic forewarning:

   from Bob Burden’s Original Mysterymen Presents Dark Horse, August , script by Bob Burden, pencils by Steve Sadowski, inks by Christian Alamy, letters by Steven Haynie

   from Eddie Stanky Baseball Hero one shot Fawcett, , script by Charles Dexter

   Stamp Tips in from Tip Top Comics v. United Feature, June , writer uncredited and unknown Later, Norway was pressed flat and turned into a stamp by Colonel Gumm.

   Jim Al, folks. from Invisible Ink: My Mother’s Secret Love Affair with a Famous Cartoonist Fantagraphics, September , by Bill Griffith Jim Al. And that’s all I gots to say about that.

   from Commodore John Barry in Treasure Chest of Fun and Fact v. George A. Pflaum, June, , script by John Randolph , pencils and inks by Reed Crandall

   Not only were these the best dozen or so issues of a superhero comic in the s, I’d call them the best dozen or so issues of a superhero comic from Marvel. Also, for some reason, I am now dressed as a black sheep. I have read these stories previously in floppy comic format.

   Born on this day in : Gil Kane, prolific and influential comics artist on Strange Adventures, Green Lantern, All Star Western, Mystery in Space, Conan the Barbarian, Rex the Wonder Dog, The Amazing Spider Man, Daredevil, The Atom, Marvel Team Up, Big Town, Detecrive Comics, Iron Man and so many...

   from Too Tough To Live in Thrilling Comics Pines, October , creators uncredited and unknown

   from A Very Special Spirit in Ghosts series DC, February , Script script by Mimai Kin, opencils and inks by Michael Netzer, colors by Adrienne Roy, letters by Albert DeGuzman This post was suggested by faithful reader and frequent commenter Blam, who’s provided a lot of date...