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| October 3 When Heather Douglas was still a girl, her father was driving her and her mother through the desert when they accidentally happened to see the spaceship of Thanos land; the space villain did not want any witnesses, so he destroyed their car. Heather was thrown clear and survived, but her parents were killed. She was found by Thanos’ father, Mentor, who took her to his home world, Titan, to be raised by the monks of Shao-Lom. From the monks, Heather develops her body to its full potential, becoming a formidable martial artist. They teach Heather various scientific disciplines such as chemistry and genetic engineering; but most significantly, they help Heather tap into her latent psionic powers, present within all humans. Heather is able to develop her mental powers far beyond even those of her teachers, so much so that she eventually mentally contacts a powerful entity called the Dragon of the Moon. The Dragon immediately tries to corrupt and take her over, but she fights back, driving the Dragon away. This fills her with pride and an overwhelming sense of superiority. To commemorate her victory, she takes the name Moondragon. Unknown to Heather, the Dragon subtly continues to influence her on a subconscious level. Moondragon first appeared in Iron Man #54 (October 3, 1972).  |
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| October 4 Pete Stanchek is a normal teenager until he develops Harbinger abilities. After seeing an advertisement he contacts the Harbinger Foundation. Toyo Harada is an Omega Harbinger: he commands the full spectrum of psionic abilities, which he uses to create a multinational corporation and amass a large fortune. Fearing the world is on a course to destroy itself, he plans to take it over and mould it to his specifications. To this end he creates the Harbinger Foundation, which actively searches for potential Harbingers. Harada is intrigued by Pete, who is the only other Harbinger to have triggered his own powers and who exhibits multiple abilities. Harada tries to persuade Pete to join the Harbinger Foundation and become Harada’s right hand man, but when Pete’s best friend, who had been vocal about his distrust for Harada, is murdered by the Foundation, Pete realizes the truth. Pete, along with Kris become renegades. They decide to recruit Harbingers themselves, activate their abilities and form an army capable of challenging Harada. Stanchek first appeared in Harbinger #1 (October 4, 1991).  |
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| October 5 Cupidon is a Belgian comics series that made its debut in the magazine Spirou on October 5, 1988. Cupidon features short stories about the adventures of a little Putto attempting to bring love on earth. His headquarters are in Heaven and he is dispatched by a (hot-tempered) Saint Peter. With his bow and arrows, Cupidon is usually prone to blunders, bringing together people of contrasting personalities, even matching together animals not necessarily of the same species.  |
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| October 6 Madame Xanadu’s full name was once Nimue Inwudu and she is the youngest sister of Morgana (to become Morgaine Le Fay) and Vivienne, the Lady of the Lake. She debuted in Doorway to Nightmare #1, (October 6, 1977). The sisters are descendants of the Elder Folk, survivors of Atlantis who evolved into the race known as the Homo magi. Madame Xanadu is the same Nimue who casts an imprisoning spell on her former lover Merlin, blaming him for manipulating Camelot and the course of history for his own gain. Merlin has the last laugh, though, as he succeeds in stripping her magic away from her, forcing her to use potions to maintain her immortality. The mysterious Phantom Stranger influences her betrayal of Merlin and the two continue to meet throughout the centuries, sharing an ambivalent relationship. Nimue wanders around the world for some time, becoming an advisor to many great rulers. She spends time in Kublai Khan’s court at Xanadu, leading to her assumed name of “Madame Xanadu.” Again she meets the Phantom Stranger. It does not go as expected, for she learns the Stranger walks outside of the timestream. During the French Revolution, she is able to regain her immortality by besting Death in a card game. In the 1940s, she has a sexual relationship with John Zatara, who wishes to marry her, but she foresees his true love, and the later existence of his daughter, Zatanna, “a love with whom she could never compete.” Despite this, she uses Zatara to trap and ensnare the Phantom Stranger, preventing him from witnessing, and affecting, the supernatural origins of the Spectre. Eventually, Madame Xanadu decides that she wants to atone for her sins and begins operating the fortune-telling parlor out of “the Village”. She however remains without any real magic might of her own, which has led her to manipulate various forces in order to gain power. Having developed herself as an advisor, she now meets clientele plagued by supernatural problems. Although she can advise them, some force prevents her from directly interfering in solving their troubles. If one of her clients manages to conquer a supernatural force, she can contain that entity in jars within her fortune parlor to prevent it from causing any further trouble.  |
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 TURNING POINTS by Maggie Thompson Here’s the latest installment of Maggie Thompson’s ongoing look at important beginnings, middles, and ends, this time for October 7-13, 2022... 140 years ago October 10, 1882 Homer Fleming is born. He’s an artist for Golden Age comics, especially for DC. 125 years ago October 8, 1897 Eelco Harmsen van der Beek is born. The Dutch artist creates the advertising character Flipje and (with Enid Blyton) the “Noddy” series for children. 125 years ago October 12, 1897 Charles Henry Ross dies at age 62. The British comics writer-artist co-created Ally Sloper with Isabelle de Tessier. 115 years ago October 8, 1907 Award-winning Disney and UPI animator Arthur Babbitt is born. He designs the witch in Snow White and Geppetto in Pinocchio and leads the 1941 Disney Studio strike. 105 years ago October 12, 1917 Roger Armstrong is born. The artist and teacher draws for such comic books as Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies Comics, among other Dell series, where his features include Warner Bros., Disney, and Hanna-Barbera characters. He draws the Ella Cinders newspaper strip in the 1950s. 105 years ago October 13, 1917 Puppeteer Burr Tillstrom is born. He creates the “Kukla, Fran, and Ollie” TV feature. 100 years ago October 9, 1922 Fritzi Ritz by Larry Whittington begins. (Yes, Ernie Bushmiller will take over the series in 1925.) 80 years ago October 11, 1942 Milton Caniff begins special Terry and the Pirates strips (featuring Burma) for service newspapers. 75 years ago October 10, 1947 Writer-artist Joseph Jacinto Mora dies at age 70. He created the Animaldom feature. 75 years ago October 10, 1947 Chicago Mayor Martin Kennelly bans the sale of Crime Does Not Pay comic books in the city. 75 years ago October 11, 1947 Cartoonist Ippei Okamoto dies at age 61. He helped to form the first Japanese cartoonists’ organization and introduced U.S. strips to Japan. 75 years ago October 12, 1947 The cartoonist creator of Rose Is Rose, Pat Brady, is born. 70 years ago October 11, 1952 Belgian comics publisher Jean Dupuis dies at age 76. 70 years ago October 11, 1952 Jim Woodring is born. The artist-writer is especially known for Jim and Frank. 70 years ago October 13, 1952 Lawyer and writer Bob Ingersoll is born. The reviewer and essayist is known for his CBG and ComicMix column The Law Is a Ass, addressing the legal aspects of comics stories. 65 years ago October 8, 1957 Artist Richard Thompson is born. He creates the Cul de Sac strip and Richard’s Poor Almanac. 65 years ago October 11, 1957 Edmond-François Calvo dies at age 65. The influential French funny animal writer-artist was especially known for La Bête Est Mort. 60 years ago October 9, 1962 Philippe Escafre is born. The French writer-artist who works as “Coyote” creates “Bébert, Clochard et Philosophe,” “Litteul Kévin,” and the biker strip Mammouth et Piston. 55 years ago October 10, 1967 Editor and letterer Douglas W. Dlin is born. 50 years ago October 7, 1972 The Mighty World of Marvel #1 kicks off a weekly series of British reprints of Marvel comics. 40 years ago October 10, 1982 Ben Krefta is born. The manga-style artist also produces “how to” art books. 30 years ago October 9, 1992 The Words & Pictures Museum of Fine Sequential Art (founded by Kevin Eastman) opens in Northampton, Massachusetts. 15 years ago October 10, 2007 Fan John Simpson dies of cancer at age 51. 5 years ago October 12, 2017 Austrian artist Erwin Moser dies at age 63. 5 years ago October 12, 2017 Margreet de Heer is elected first Dutch Stripmaker des Vaderlands (Comics Laureate of the Netherlands). She created the Discoveries in Comics series and Kinderleed Komix. 5 years ago October 13, 2017 During a Santa Rosa, California, fire, the house of the late Charles M. Schulz burns down; his widow, Jean, is saved. |
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| October 7 Billy Moon is a martial arts enthusiast and Vietnam veteran who found a career in roller derby. In the wake of the murder of his best friend by biker gangs, Moon sinks into depression, only to meet a young Hispanic boy named Paco. Paco’s comic-book collection inspires Moon to wrap a scarf around his face and fight crime with his roller skates. He debuted in Skateman #1 (October 7, 1983). It is primarily known as an industry curiosity, a widely derided comic produced by one of comics’ most highly regarded and influential creators, Neal Adams. Historian Don Markstein called its protagonist “one (of) the least-acclaimed heroes of all time”.  |
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| October 8 The Rook family moved to the town of Litchfield, NH following an incident involving their daughter Sailor and a particularly vicious school bully named Annie. Sailor was attacked and Annie went missing, prompting rumours that Sailor killed her. Eventually the speculation grows to the point where Sailor’s father Charlie and mother Lucy decide that the only thing to do is move the family to a neighbouring town in the hopes of starting over again. This proves to be unsuccessful as some of the rumours have followed the family and Sailor still feels ostracized from her new school peers. The family is also largely unaware that the town is home to its own supernatural secrets, in particular a tradition where a person will pledge another to strange beings, wytches, in the nearby forest in order to gain a boon from them. Writer Scott Snyder came up with the idea for Wytches after recalling a childhood experience where he and a friend made up stories about a family of Satanists living in a nearby Pennsylvania forest that were constantly trying to capture the two boys. He later revisited the area out of nostalgia and saw a moving object that looked vaguely human, which made Snyder think that there was something in the forest that had been waiting for him to return.  |
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| October 9 Superman/Clark Kent and Lois Lane are among the best known fictional couples. They debuted together in 1938 and have remained in a complicated relationship ever since. The character’s relationship was based for a long time in a love triangle, in which Clark was interested in Lois, who was taken with Superman. Clark, unable to reveal to Lois that his mild-mannered demeanor was a ruse, was unable to compete for Lois’ affection. The irony being he was his own rival, seeing that Clark and Superman are the same person. Following John Byrne’s 1986 reboot, The Man of Steel, Clark’s character became not only the more dominant personality of the Clark Kent/Superman character, but also more outgoing, aggressive, and assertive. This allowed a more natural romance to develop between Lois and Clark. In the 1990s, Clark proposes marriage to Lois and reveals his identity as Superman to her. They began a long engagement, which was complicated by the death of Superman, a breakup, and several other problems. The couple finally married in Superman: The Wedding Album (October 9, 1996).  |
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| October 10 The Biologic Show is a comic book series written and drawn by Al Columbia. The first issue, #0, was released on October 10, 1994 by Fantagraphics Books. Each issue of The Biologic Show contains several short stories and illustrated poems. Many of the pieces deal with disturbing subject matter such as mutilation, incest, and the occult. Issue #0 introduces three of Columbia’s recurring characters: the hapless, Koko the Clown-like Seymour Sunshine in the opening story “No Tomorrow If I Must Return”, and the sibling duo Pim and Francie in “Tar Frogs”. Reaction to The Biologic Show upon its release was mixed. One of the few contemporaneous reviews of issue #0 in the comics press dismissed it as “an array of senselessness. Themes are inane or non-existent and none seem to progress any sense of story.” However, the series was highly praised by other alternative comics creators including Mike Allred and Jim Woodring, who wrote that “[i]t’s full of stuff you don’t want to think about too much, but it’s so much fun to look at that you can’t help but linger. [Columbia] does tricks with time and revelations that are shockingly deft.”  |
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| October 11 Caitlin Fairchild is the daughter of Alex Fairchild of Team 7. The identity of her mother is unknown, and Caitlin has never mentioned her. When he was forced to go underground to escape International Operations, Alex Fairchild left Caitlin in the care of relatives in Portland, Oregon. Raised by her aunt and uncle alongside her cousin Karen, Caitlin grew into a brilliant, but rather mousy young woman. In her sophomore year, Caitlin was recruited into Project: Genesis which she believed to be some sort of government internship. One night, Caitlin began to feel ill (due to secretly being fed drugs designed to activate latent Gen-Active abilities) and she staggered out of her room to try to find a bathroom. She inadvertently stumbled into a computer room where she spotted her father’s name on a computer screen. Caitlin, investigating this, was interrupted by a security guard who clubbed her with his rifle when she tried to explain herself. Caitlin’s anger activated her latent gen-active abilities. Fairchild’s clothing was shredded in the process, and within seconds she was transformed from a mousy computer geek to a powerful, towering amazon. Caitlin, Roxy and Grunge decided to escape Project: Genesis. Along the way, they were joined by Bobby Lane and Sarah Rainmaker. She first appeared in Deathmate Black (October 11, 1993).  |
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| October 12 Ravonna Lexus Renslayer was the daughter of King Carelius. She first appeared in Avengers #23 (October 12, 1965). Ravonna first met Kang when he attempted to annex her time era into his empire. Kang loved Ravonna, but she hated him due to his attempt to conquer the kingdom. While the kingdom threatened rebellion, Kang let it be in the hope of winning the princess Ravonna’s hand in marriage. Eventually, however, outright rebellion broke out, and as Kang was on the verge of winning the battle, he brought the Avengers there to witness his triumph. He hoped to defeat them and then marry Ravonna. One of his generals, Baltag, rebelled against him after refusing to execute Ravonna. Kang then enlisted the aid of the Avengers to overthrow Baltag. He also enlisted the aid of citizens of the city, and, after stealing weaponry, the rebellion went ahead. He released Ravonna from her dungeon, revealing he really loved her. Baltag attempted to shoot Kang as he sent the Avengers back to their own time, and Ravonna, realizing she loved Kang, threw herself in front of the blast, and fell into a deathlike coma.  |
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| October 13 Shapesmith is a Martian, using his metamorphic abilities to disguise himself as astronaut Rus Livingston and fight crime. He can take any form, and even form the clothes he wears. He can also change his shape, such as expanding his body to wrap around an enemy. Shapesmith was part of a movement to end the slavery of the Sequids on Mars. He took the form of human astronaut Rus Livingston, and returned to Earth in his place. His plan was that the Sequid slaves would gain a “solid” host in Livingston, unify their hive-mind, and free themselves. The plan succeeded, but the Sequids proved so aggressive that they enslaved the Martians and tried to conquer Earth on several occasions. Shapesmith and a group of Earth’s superheroes thwarted those attempts. He has become a member of The Guardians Of The Globe after capturing Doc Seismic. The Guardians’ government liaison Cecil Stedman angrily implied that Shapesmith’s days were numbered when he found out that the Martian had impersonated an astronaut and left the original behind. He debuted in Invincible #18 (October 13, 2004).  |
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TURNING POINTS by Maggie Thompson Here’s the latest installment of Maggie Thompson’s ongoing look at important beginnings, middles, and ends, this time for October 14-20, 2022... 150 years ago October 14, 1872 Writer Sol Hess is born. He scripts The Gumps and The Nebbs. 145 years ago October 14, 1877 Artist Grace Gebbie Drayton is born. Lambiek calls her “one of the first and most successful female cartoonists.” She creates the Campbell Soup Kids. 145 years ago October 17, 1877 Writer-artist Fanny Cory is born. One of the first syndicated female comics artists in the US, she creates Ben Bolt, Sonnysayings, and Little Miss Muffet. 130 years ago October 15, 1892 Flemish artist Jan Waterschoot is born. 125 years ago October 20, 1897 Elmer Cecil Stoner is born. One of the first Black comic book artists, he has art in Detective Comics #1, creates Phantasmo, and is thought to have contributed to the creation of the Mr. Peanut mascot. 120 years ago October 14, 1902 George Wilson is born. The pulp artist and art teacher provides art for comic books for Fiction House, Ace, Centaur, and Western. 105 years ago October 18, 1917 Artist and teacher Reynold Brown is born. The poster artist assists on Hal Forrest’s Tailspin Tommy. 100 years ago October 15, 1922 Artist Monte Crews is injured in an auto accident. He recovers, but it ends his The Mysterious Family Next Door newspaper feature. 100 years ago October 15, 1922 Spanish animator and artist Alfons Figueras is born. 95 years ago October 17, 1927 Gerry Gersten is born. The award-winning artist is a political caricaturist and Mad contributor. 95 years ago October 19, 1927 Prolific writer-artist Vic Lockman is born. The Western/Dell creator specializes in (but is not limited to) funny animal comics including many Disney stories. Other work includes contributions to Archie and Christian publications. 90 years ago October 14, 1932 The F. Burr Opper strip And Her Name Was Maud concludes its run. 85 years ago October 16, 1937 French writer-artist Jean de Brunhoff dies of tuberculosis at age 37. He’s best known for his children’s books featuring Babar. 85 years ago October 17, 1937 Huey, Louie, and Dewey are introduced in Al Taliaferro’s Donald Duck newspaper strip. 70 years ago October 14, 1952 Charlie Williams is born. He draws Boffo Laffs. 70 years ago October 18, 1952 Cartoonist Larry Blake is born. 70 years ago October 19, 1952 Snoopy dances on his hind legs for the first time in Charles Schulz’ Peanuts. 70 years ago October 20, 1952 Freelance comic book artist (who worked for Dell and Fawcett) and Black political activist Owen Charles Middleton dies at age 64. 65 years ago October 14, 1957 British pulp and comics artist Reginald Heade dies at age 55 or 56. 60 years ago October 17, 1962 Mike Judge is born. The animator, writer, and voice actor creates and stars in Beavis and Butt-Head and co-creates (with Greg Daniels) and stars in King of the Hill. His “Milton” animated cartoons are the basis for Office Space. 60 years ago October 20, 1962 Len Kaminski is born. The writer-editor is especially known for his work for DC and Marvel. 55 years ago October 18, 1967 Disney’s The Jungle Book opens and is the last film to be produced by Walt Disney himself. 25 years ago October 16, 1997 Writer-artist Dick Cavalli dies of a heart attack at age 74. He’s best known for Morty Meekle and Winthrop comic strips. 25 years ago October 18, 1997 Animator, artist, and teacher Milt Neil dies at age 83. He worked for Disney, especially on Duck cartoons, and designed Howdy Doody products. He and Chad Grothkopf co-produced the Howdy Doody comic strip. 20 years ago October 19, 2002 German artist Hans Jürgen Press, known for riddle and crime comics, dies at age 76. 15 years ago October 20, 2007 Writer Peg Bracken dies at age 89. Although best known for such publications as The I Hate to Cook Book, she also co-created the Phoebe, Get Your Man comic strip with Homer Groening. 10 years ago October 14, 2012 Golden Age writer-artist Marc Swayze dies at age 99. Known for story and art on Fawcett’s Captain Marvel stories, he co-created Mary Marvel with Otto Binder. He wrote “We Didn’t Know It Was the Golden Age!” for Alter Ego. 10 years ago October 16, 2012 Phil Dunlap’s Ink Pen ends. 10 years ago October 19, 2012 British writer John Radford dies at age 65. While best known for his writing on wine and food, he also wrote comics in the 1970s and 1980s for D.C. Thomson & Co. |
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| October 14 Lagoon Boy is allowed into Atlantis as part of an attempt by Aquaman to make Atlantis more open to those living outside the city by granting them citizenship. His presence is met with protests by many elitist Atlanteans. Lagoon Boy comes to the citizenship ceremony on the day of Aquaman and Queen Mera’s marriage. While there he befriends Blubber, a humanoid whale with a genius IQ, and his assistant Sheeva the Mermaid. The three characters have begun calling themselves “The Land-Lovers” as they were underwater creatures who were fascinated with the world over water. Blubber creates a device which allows Atlanteans to view television from the surface world, and the trio head up to the surface world in order to explore and compare it to the television broadcasts they had seen. Their appearance creates a huge disturbance and the Coast Guard is quickly called. Aquaman rescues the Land-Lovers from persecution and sends them back to Atlantis. Lagoon Boy is an amphibious boy. He is small in stature, but strong, quick and durable. His body is covered in green scales and fins and he has sharp claws and teeth. When excited, Lagoon Boy also has the ability to blow up like a puffer fish, which makes him appear to be much larger and more intimidating, and develop quills that can cause great pain to other opponents who cross his path. He first appeared in Aquaman #50 (October 14, 1998).  |
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| October 15 Yondu is depicted as a blue-skinned male with a large red fin protruding from the back of his head and back; he is a spiritual warrior who can control his killing arrows via sound waves, most commonly by whistling. Yondu joined Vance Astro and other survivors of the Badoon attack on Earth’s solar system in the 31st Century, who became known as the Guardians of the Galaxy. As part of the Guardians, Yondu traveled to present-day Earth and became an honorary member of the Avengers. Yondu first appeared in Marvel Super-Heroes #18 (October 15, 1968).  |
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| October 16 Emma Frost was born in Boston, Massachusetts, to the wealthy Winston and Hazel Frost; she is the third of four children. At school, Frost is ruthlessly bullied by her peers but finds support in teacher, Ian Kendall. When her telepathic powers manifest, Frost is able to read the minds of others and glean information. Frost becomes a tutor to the other students and Ian recommends her to be a teacher. Frost later enrolls in Empire State University. Frost is later invited to the Hellfire Club, an underground elite society. Alongside Sebastian Shaw, Lourdes Chantel, and Harry Leland, Frost takes control of the Hellfire Club, setting themselves up as Lords Cardinal of the Inner Circle of the Hellfire Club. Frost and the Club’s agents later attempted to recruit Kitty Pryde for the Massachusetts Academy, and capture several members of the X-Men, including Storm, Colossus, Wolverine, and Phoenix. Frost engages Phoenix in a psychic battle in which she is overpowered and on the verge of being killed. Emma Frost is a mutant of enormous telepathic ability, and is also capable of transforming into an organic diamond state with enhanced strength and durability which suppresses her telepathy. Additionally Frost has been a host to the Phoenix Force and was classified as an Omega-level mutant. She first appeared in Uncanny X-Men #129 (October 16, 1979).  |
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| October 17 The Shadow King’s origins are unclear. It is a multiversal manifestation of the dark side of the human consciousnesses, spawned by the first nightmare. When Amahl Farouk’s powers developed he psychically controlled those around him, feeding on the shadows in their souls and merging with the Shadow King. In 1971, Farouk became a crime lord in Egypt, controlling Cairo’s Thieves Quarter where a young Charles Xavier’s pocket was picked by a child, Ororo Munroe. fter Xavier stopped her and retrieved his wallet, he was struck by a bolt of psionic energy. When he recovered, he discovered that the source of the attack in a nearby tavern. Sitting at separate tables, they conversed telepathically. Farouk told Xavier that he sensed another telepath nearby, and the attack was a warning to stay clear of the area. He unsuccessfully tried to persuade Xavier to join him in his criminal activities; Xavier believed that people with such gifts should use them to better the world. They assumed astral form, and Xavier defeated Farouk on the astral plane with a fatal psionic attack. Farouk was Xavier’s first encounter with an evil mutant, which led to the formation of the X-Men. He first appeared in Uncanny X-Men #117 (October 17, 1978).  |
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| October 18 A skilled martial artist, Snapdragon was hired to defeat the Black Widow in Japan. She succeeded on her mission, but Black Widow soon regained her composure and quickly dispatched Snapdragon. Later, Snapdragon joined Superia’s Femizons and became one of her lieutenants. There, she found long-time enemy Diamondback. The two were trained by Anaconda in Taskmaster’s Academy, but Diamondback had subsequently dishonored Snapdragon. While on the S.S. Superia cruise ship, Snapdragon apprehended Diamondback and threw her off, leaving her to drown. Diamondback eventually recovered and received the super-soldier serum in one of her misadventures, and during their rematch, choked Snapdragon to death. Her body was returned to Japan and cremated by her brother, Kono. Snapdragon possesses no superhuman abilities other than a protective suit and a helmet with infrared sensors. She is a master in hand-to-hand combat, and skilled with various forms of weaponry. She first appeared in Marvel Fanfare #12 (October 18, 1983).  |
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| October 19 The Court of Owls is a conspiracy that has controlled Gotham City for centuries. They are a violent cabal of some of Gotham City’s oldest and wealthiest families who use murder and money to wield political influence throughout history. Their bases of operation are hidden in some of the city’s oldest structures. A nursery rhyme describing them has been passed down through Gotham’s generations: Beware the Court of Owls, that watches all the time, Ruling Gotham from a shadowed perch, behind granite and lime. They watch you at your hearth, they watch you in your bed. Speak not a whispered word about them, or they’ll send the Talon for your head. To carry out their interests, they employ a breed of highly trained assassins known as Talons. The leaders of the organization appear to be human and wear owl masks on their faces, but some lower-ranking members appear to actually be human-owl hybrids. They are first mentioned in Batman #2 (October 19, 2011).  |
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| October 20 Escaping a prison transport by leaping from the window, Mark Mardon fled to his brother’s house only to find him dead. Mardon’s brother, Clyde, a scientist, had just discovered a way to control the weather before dying of a heart attack. Mardon took Clyde’s notes and used them to make a wand to generate weather and embarked on a criminal career as The Weather Wizard. Weather Wizard originally wielded a wand that enabled him to control weather patterns. Weather Wizard has used it to produce blizzards, summon lightning bolts, fly using air currents, produce fog and generate winds. Essentially Weather Wizard can produce any type of weather pattern imaginable, as well as other phenomenon such as tornadoes. He first appeared in Flash #110 (October 20, 1959).   |
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TURNING POINTS by Maggie Thompson image image Here’s the latest installment of Maggie Thompson’s ongoing look at important beginnings, middles, and ends, this time for October 21-27, 2022... 170 years ago October 23, 1852 Jean-Louis Forain is born. The French artist contributes to Le Figaro and other papers including his own Le Fifre magazine. 150 years ago October 21, 1872 Fritz Gareis Jr. is born. The Austrian artist draws Bilderbogen des Kleinen Lebens. 145 years ago October 27, 1877 Artist Walt Kuhn is born. 120 years ago October 25, 1902 The Bulgarian artist Boris Angelushev is born. 110 years ago October 21, 1912 Dutch animator, teacher, and artist Henk Kabos is born. He’s especially known for Tekko Taks (co-created with James Ringrose). 105 years ago October 23, 1917 Portuguese artist Júlio Resende is born. 105 years ago October 26, 1917 Artist Frank Crane dies at age 60. He was the Sunday art editor of the New York Herald and editor of several syndicates for which he worked. His longest-running strip was Willie Westinghouse Edison Smith. 80 years ago October 26, 1942 Dutch artist Jacques van der Smissen is born. 65 years ago October 21, 1957 Artist Jeff Albrecht is born. 65 years ago October 21, 1957 Bob Keenan is born. The writer-editor-publisher is known for his work with Sal Quartuccio. 65 years ago October 25, 1957 Whoa, Momma! Award-winning voice artist Nancy Cartwright is born. She’s especially known for her performances as Bart Simpson. 65 years ago October 26, 1957 Swiss artist Pierangelo Boog is born. 65 years ago October 26, 1957 Lawson Wood dies at age 79. The artist is known for Gran’pop. 60 years ago October 22, 1962 Artist John Tighe is born. 60 years ago October 24, 1962 Writer-artist Mark H. Campos is born. 60 years ago October 26, 1962 Award-winning letterer and writer John Morelli is born. He creates The Silencer. 50 years ago October 27, 1972 Margreet de Heer is born. The first Dutch Stripmaker des Vaderlands (Comics Laureate of the Netherlands), she creates the Discoveries in Comics series and Kinderleed Komix. 35 years ago October 24, 1987 2000 AD begins the Judge Dredd storyline “Oz” by John Wagner and Alan Grant. 30 years ago October 23, 1992 Artist Horace T. Elmo dies at age 89. He produced newspaper features for Lincoln Features and then his own Elmo Features Syndicate – and Golden Age comic book features for DC and Timely. 25 years ago October 22, 1997 Danish animator and artist Per Lygum dies at age 64. 25 years ago October 24, 1997 Voice actor Don Messick dies of a stroke at age 71. His characters included Scooby-Doo, Papa Smurf, and Dr. Benton Quest. 20 years ago October 22, 2002 British cartoonist Robert Nixon dies at age 63. He contributed a variety of features to such publications as The Beano and Monster Fun. 10 years ago October 23, 2012 Tinkerbell is featured in Disney’s Secret of the Wings in its U.S. DVD and Blu-ray premiere. 10 years ago October 27, 2012 Animator and artist Bill White dies at age 51. He freelanced for DC, Marvel, Archie, Harvey, Disney, and other comic book publishers as well as creating Kaptain Keen and Kompany. 5 years ago October 25, 2017 French artist Patrick Jusseaume dies three days before his 66th birthday. He specialized in historical comics series and co-creates the Tramp series with Jean-Charles Kraehn. |
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| October 21 Rachel Anne Summers comes from an alternate future Earth known as Earth-811. In this reality, the assassination of Senator Robert Kelly provoked the ratification of the Mutant Registration Act, leading to a dystopian future where the mutant-hunting Sentinel robots rule North America. Rachel was abducted by operatives working for Ahab, who used drugs and hypnotherapy to turn Rachel into a “Hound,” a mutant who tracks down other mutants. She fulfilled her duties, but her psychic powers linked her to her victims; fueling her grief and despair until she attacked Ahab and scarred him. In return, he sent her to the mutant concentration camps. There, she befriended the surviving mutant rebels, including Wolverine, Magneto, Colossus, Storm, Kate Pryde, and her lover, the adult Franklin Richards. Rachel managed to send Kate’s consciousness into the past to her younger self to prevent the assassination, but it did not change their time. Rachel sent her astral form into the past to find out why and discovered she had sent Kate into an alternate past. On the way back, she encountered the disembodied Phoenix Force and it followed her to her present. Rachel passed out from the strain of astral projection and the Phoenix Force revealed itself to Kate, who asked it to give Rachel a fresh start. When Rachel and Kate broke into “Project: Nimrod” on a suicide mission to destroy a new model of Sentinel, they became trapped. When Kate spoke the words “Dark Phoenix,” the Phoenix Force ripped Rachel from her timeline and sent her body back to the alternate past to which she had sent Kate’s consciousness. This was a past where she learned Jean Grey was dead and that her father was married to someone else. Rachel experienced additional heartache and displacement trauma when she discovered that her father’s new wife, Madelyne Pryor, was pregnant with a son (Nathan Summers), because in her timeline she was the first-born child of Scott Summers. Rachel first appeared in The Uncanny X-Men #141 (October 21, 1980).   |
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| October 22 “Born Again” details Daredevil’s descent into insanity and destitution at the hands of the Kingpin, as well as his subsequent struggle to build a new life for himself. The arc begins in Daredevil #227 (October 22, 1985). Karen Page, the former secretary of the Nelson & Murdock law offices and girlfriend of Matt Murdock, had left years earlier to pursue an acting career. After a brief period of success, she became a heroin addict and was reduced to starring in pornographic films in Mexico. Strapped for cash, she sells the information that Matt Murdock is Daredevil for a shot of heroin. This information is sold upward to the Kingpin. Over the next six months, he uses his influence to have the IRS freeze Murdock’s accounts, the bank foreclose on his apartment, and police lieutenant Nicholas Manolis testify that he saw Murdock pay a witness to perjure himself. By coincidence, Murdock’s girlfriend Glorianna breaks up with him and turns to dating his law partner and best friend Foggy Nelson on the rebound. Now homeless, Murdock begins suffering from paranoia and has become extremely aggressive. He is continuously followed by the Kingpin’s subordinates, who provide the Kingpin with frequent updates on his mental state, as he has become obsessed with the fruits of his scheme to destroy Murdock. Driven by thoughts of revenge, Murdock confronts the Kingpin in his office, and is brutally beaten by the crime lord.   |
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| October 23 Pooky is Garfield’s teddy bear and best friend that Garfield discovered stuffed in a drawer. Garfield sometimes communicates with Pooky as if he were a living animal; he can also be over-protective of Pooky. Once, Garfield tried to “protect” Pooky from a present from Jon to Pooky, a miniature accordion. When Pooky lost an eye, Garfield requested a new eye for Pooky as his Christmas present. Garfield is not shy to show his love for Pooky, often grabbing it in hugs. This causes Jon to be a bit envious that the teddy bear is more loved than him and he occasionally asks for hugs from Garfield but Garfield would refuse, particularly when in one comic strip Jon asks “Can I have a hug like that?” but instead Garfield sighed and gave Pooky to Jon and left without saying a word. He first appeared in the Garfield strip on October 23, 1978.  |
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| October 24 Misty Knight was a rising star with the NYPD when she was seriously injured preventing a bomb attack that forced the amputation of her right arm. Rather than take a desk job, she resigned from the police force, though she remained good friends with her long-time partner on the force Rafael Scarfe. Tony Stark provided her a bionic arm which endowed her superhuman strength. Soon after that, she met Spider-Man and then Iron Fist. Misty teamed with her friend Colleen Wing in fighting the criminal Emil Vachon in the Hong Kong area. She saved Colleen from an attempted rape. She then set up a private detective agency with Colleen entitled “Nightwing Restorations Ltd.” Soon after she first met Iron Fist, the two crime-fighters fell in love. Misty conducted undercover work against the crime lord John Bushmaster. She aided Iron Fist, Spider-Man, and Colleen Wing against Davos, the Steel Serpent. She then first met and fought Luke Cage, Power Man. Misty’s “Knightwing Restorations Ltd” detective agency would go on to help Power Man and Iron Fist’s Heroes for Hire agency on numerous cases. Misty Knight was first mentioned in Marvel Premiere #20 (October 24, 1974).  |
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| October 25 Arcade affects a manner of dress and speech that makes him appear to be a comedic character. This is part of his overall theme, which extends into his preferred method of murder, an underground funhouse of colorful deathtraps, usually decked out in cheery colors and disguised as an amusement park, which he has dubbed “Murderworld”. Arcade first appeared in Marvel Team-Up #65 (October 25, 1977). Arcade became a freelance assassin, traveling across the world, killing people in rather mundane fashions, and amassing even more wealth than he already had. Discovering an aptitude for technology, Arcade designed and built his first Murderworld, a subterranean evil lair disguised as an amusement park. From this base, and with the help of two mysterious assistants named Miss Locke and Mr. Chambers, he reemerged as the world’s most expensive hitman. For the price of $1 million, he would tailor Murderworld to exploit the specific weaknesses of his targets and then watch as they are killed by a variety of colorful deathtraps strewn throughout the facility. However, one of his “gimmicks” is that he always deliberately leaves each target a small chance of survival.  |
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