Happy 60th Birthday to Me!

Taking the day off to celebrate...

Born the year the Dodgers left Brooklyn!
See you tomorrow...

Happy Father's Day...

Art by Al Williamson and Carlos Garzon

..or else!

Reading Room ALIEN ENCOUNTERS "Outcast"

What makes you different, even unique, from others?

Sometimes it's not what you think!

The highly-underrated Marc Hempel wrote and illustrated this simple, but effective (and never-reprinted) short from Eclipse's Alien Encounters #1 (1985)!
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MARS
by Mark Wheatley & Marc Hempel

Friday Fun REX DEXTER OF MARS "The Day Rex Dexter Failed to Save the Earth!"

Looks like a typical day in the life of our favorite interplanetary adventurer...

...but that's certainly not the case this time!

Note: this tale was scanned from microfiche, so the quality is less than ideal, but it's all we have to work with!

Note: this tale was scanned from microfiche, so the image quality is less than ideal, but it's all we have to work with!

To be fair, Rex's ego isn't so fragile that he's ashamed that Cynde had to rescue him in this never-reprinted tale from Fox's Mystery Men Comics #8 (1940), making him one of the more enlghtened heroes of the Golden Age!

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Comics About Cartoonists

Stories About the World's Oddest Profession

Holiday Reading Room EVERY DAY'S A HOLLY DAY "Flag Day"

Let's learn...

...and try to forget it's also (ironically) the 72nd birthday of legendary Draft-dodger Don (the Con) Trump!

BTW, note the Union soldiers in panel 5 are wearing Confederate gray!

Why is this 1955 comic entitled "Every Day's a Holly Day" instead of "Every Day's a Holiday"?

Because it was given away to kids by grocers who sold Holly Sugar!

Illustrated by John Rosenberger, it's a unique pamphlet covering a number of American holidays, including both Lincoln and Washington's Birthdays (before they were combined into "Presidents' Day" in 1962), Mothers' Day (though not Fathers' Day), Flag Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving, and a couple of holidays we've largely abandoned...Pan-American Day and American Indian Day!

We'll be presenting the other chapters on the dates they fall upon.

Watch for them!

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Cartoon History of the United States