Celebrating the Anniversary of the Ford Mustang that debuted at the New York's World's Fair on April 17, 1964 with this photo cover to Archie #443 (January, 1996, with art by Bill Golliher), as Archie, Jughead, Betty and Veronica get ready to leave school in style, all under the watchful eye of Miss Grundy and Principal Weatherbee.   ..read more

A happy birthday to actress Jennifer Garner (April 17, 1972) with this issue of Mad Magazine (#441, May, 2004) with a cover for their parody of her spy series, Alias ..read more

In space, no one can hear you scream....but they sure want you to pay your taxes. These intrepid astronauts thought they had a windfall, but the IRS was there...on this cover to Archie's Mad House #31 (February, 1964) by Samm Schwartz ..read more

A happy birthday to Buffy The Vampire Slayer star Sarah Michelle Gellar (April 14, 1977) with this cover to Mad Magazine #367 (March, 1998) by Mort Drucker... ...as Buffy spikes a vampire version of Alfred E. Neuman ..read more

Celebrating the birthday of artist Amanda Conner (April 12, 1967)...but which series to choose...Harley Quinn or Power Girl? Well, no sense making a choice, as their was a 6 issue mini-series featuring both Harley Quinn and Power Girl, which included Vartox! Harley Quinn and Power Girl #1 and #2 (August and September, 2015) . Harley Quinn and Power Girl #3 and #4 (October and November, 2015) . Harley Quinn and Power Girl #5 and #6 (January, 2016 ..read more

Remembering artist Emmanuel "Mac" Raboy on his birthday (April 9, 1914 - December 12, 1967)...but instead of giving you some of his (many) Captain Marvel Jr. covers, here, instead is his covers for Bulletman, of which he did four... ...with Jim Barr going into adventures with his girlfriend, Susan Kent as Bulletman and Bulletgirl! Mac also contributed to a few covers for America's Greatest Comics and Master Comics, which allow Captain Marvel Jr. to be snuck in here, along with Fawcett's other great characters: Spy Smasher, Captain Marvel, Minute Man and Mr. Scarlett! Bulletman #2 and #3 ..read more

Just a couple of covers featuring funny man, Bob Hope... ...as a caveman. Adventures Of Bob Hope #43 (February-March, 1957) with art by Owen Fitzgerald and Graham Price, has Bob making time with a prehistoric hottie....and Adventures Of Bob Hope #88 (August-September, 1964) with art by Bob Oksner, shows Bob on the run, likely because of the trouble he always finds himself in!  ..read more

As it is April Fools' Day, one could actually spend a whole month (and then some) focusing on Ambush Bug as done by Keith Giffen, but instead, just a peek at his Ambush Bug Nothing Special #1 (September, 1992), from a time when comics were very serious, especially DC's Vertigo line. So, of course, as DC's continuity cop, Ambush Bug came along and had a little fun with Swamp Thing, Doom Patrol, Sandman and Death in Keith's 9 panel style.   Because, why not? Ambush Bug meets Swamp Thing and the Doom Patrol  . Ambush Bug meets Sandman and Death ..read more

To be fair, not sure Harley Quinn plans any violence to this Easter egg on this Frank Cho cover to Harley Quinn #72 (June, 2020)... ...but, knowing Harley and with Batman's symbol on it...that egg is likely scrambled by now!  ..read more

At some point, heroes fall, and are replaced by other heroes.  That is now a frequent occurrence in comics, but it had gone on before. Even before Blue Beetle reached DC Comics, back when he was a character at Charlton, there was a replacement of the original super powered Blue Beetle to a non-powered tech driven hero. In cooperation with the Super Blog Team-Up, now the story of that switch can be told! The Original Blue Beetle Dan Garrett was an archeologist, premiering (at least this Charlton version) in Blue Beetle #1 (June, 1964) by Joe Gill, Bill Fraccio and Tony Tallarico.  ..read more