{"id":35724,"date":"2026-06-15T08:00:28","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T08:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/?p=35724"},"modified":"2026-06-14T13:51:31","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T13:51:31","slug":"dc-finest-deadman-how-many-times-can-a-guy-die","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2026\/06\/15\/dc-finest-deadman-how-many-times-can-a-guy-die\/","title":{"rendered":"DC Finest: Deadman – How Many Times Can a Guy Die?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nBy Arnold Drake<\/strong>, Neal Adams<\/strong>, Jack Miller<\/strong>, Bob Haney<\/strong>, Robert Kanigher<\/strong>, Dennis O\u2019Neil<\/strong>, Mike Friedrich<\/strong>, Jack Kirby<\/strong>, Paul Levitz<\/strong>, Cary Bates<\/strong>, Carmine Infantino<\/strong>, Dick Dillin<\/strong>, George Tuska<\/strong>, Jim Aparo<\/strong>, Mike Grell<\/strong>, Fred Carillo<\/strong>, Kurt Schaffenberger<\/strong>, George Roussos<\/strong>, Joe Giella<\/strong>, Mike Royer<\/strong>, Vince Colletta<\/strong>, Tex Blaisdell <\/strong>& various (DC Comics)
\nISBN: 978-1-79950-771-0 (TPB)<\/p>\n

This book includes Discriminatory Content<\/strong> produced in less enlightened times.<\/em><\/p>\n

As the 1960s ended, a massive superhero boom became a slow, inescapable bust, with (formerly) major draws no longer able to find enough readers to keep them alive. The appetite for superheroes was diminishing in favour of more traditional genres, and rational editorial response was to reshape costumed characters to fit evolving contemporary tastes.<\/p>\n

Publishers swiftly changed gears and even staid, cautious DC reacted rapidly to make masked adventurers fit the new reality. Newly revised and revived costumed features included roving mystic troubleshooter Phantom Stranger<\/strong> and golden age titan The Spectre<\/strong>, whilst resurgent traditional genres spawned atrocity-faced WWII spy Unknown Soldier<\/strong> and cowboy bounty hunter Jonah Hex<\/strong>, spectral western avenger El Diablo<\/strong> and game changing monster hero Swamp Thing<\/strong>, all spearheading a torrent of new formats, anthologies and concepts.<\/p>\n

Crucially, supernatural themes and horror-tinged plots were shoehorned into those superhero titles that weathered the trend-storm. Arguably, the moment of surrender and change had already arrived in 1967 with the creation of Boston Brand<\/em> in the autumn of \u201cThe Summer of Love\u201d, as venerable sci fi anthology Strange Adventures<\/strong> was abruptly reconditioned as the haunted home of an angry ghost\u2026<\/p>\n

Without fanfare or warning, Deadman<\/strong> debuted in #205 with this collection re-presenting that origin event and thereafter, pertinent contents from #206-216 and crossovers and guest shots from Aquaman <\/strong>#50-52; The Brave and the Bold<\/strong> #79, 86, 104, 133, Justice League of America<\/strong> #94; The Phantom Stranger<\/strong> #33, 39-41; World’s Finest Comics<\/strong> #223 & 227, Challengers of the Unknown<\/strong> #74; Forever People<\/strong> #9-10 and Superman Family<\/strong> #183, all cumulatively spanning cover-dates October 1967 to May\/June 1977.<\/p>\n

Crafted by Arnold Drake, Carmine Infantino & George Roussos, SA<\/strong> #205\u2019s \u2018Who Has Been Lying in My Grave?\u2019 <\/em>opens at the funeral of high wire acrobat Boston Brand<\/em>: a rough, tough, jaded performer who had seen everything and masked his decent human heart behind an obnoxious exterior and cynical demeanour. As \u201cDeadman\u201d, Brand had been the star attraction of Hills Circus and lover of its reluctant owner Lorna Carling<\/em>. He also acted as a secret guardian for the misfits it employed and sheltered. That makeshift \u201cfamily\u201d includes simple-minded strongman Tiny<\/em> and Asian mystic Vashnu<\/em>, but also had some bad eggs too, like alcoholic animal trainer Heldrich<\/em> and chiselling carnival Barker Leary<\/em>. The aerialist kept them in line\u2026 with his fists, whenever necessary…
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\nOne fateful night, Brand almost missed his cue because of Leary and Heldrich\u2019 antics, but also because he had to stop local cop Ramsey<\/em> harassing Vashnu. It would have better if Brand had been late, because as soon as he started his act – 40 feet up and without a net – someone put a rifle slug into his heart. Despite being dead before he hit the ground, Brand was scared and furious. Nobody could see or hear him screaming, although Vashnu kept babbling on that he was the chosen of Rama Kushna<\/em> – \u201cthe spirit of the universe\u201d. The hokum all came horribly true when that entity astonishingly made contact, telling Boston that he would walk among men until he found his killer.<\/p>\n

The gig came with some advantages. He was invisible, untouchable, immune to the laws of physics and able to take possession of the living and drive them like a meat car. His only clue was witnesses in the audience who claimed that a man with a hook had shot him…<\/p>\n

Outraged, still disbelieving and seemingly stuck forever in the ghastly make-up and outfit of his performing persona, Deadman\u2019s first posthumous act is to possess Tiny and check out key suspects. Soon the dormant Hercules finds that the cop Ramsey and Heydrich are involved in a criminal conspiracy, but they definitely are not Brand\u2019s murderers. Eventually, the ghost learns a shocking fact: his desperation is not worth the life of anyone else and he must not let his anger put his \u201cvessels\u201d in harm\u2019s way…<\/p>\n

Scripted by Drake and inked by Roussos, second episode \u2018An Eye for An Eye!\u2019<\/em> was Neal Adams\u2019 illustrative debut. He was born on June 15th<\/sup> 1941 at Governors Island, New York City. The family were career military and Neal grew up on bases across the world. In the late 1950s, he studied at the High School of Industrial Art in Manhattan, and graduated in 1959.<\/p>\n

As the turbulent Sixties began, he was a budding illustrator working in advertising, ghosting newspaper strips and seeking to break into comics. Whilst pursuing a career in \u201creal\u201d and \u201ccommercial\u201d art, Adams did pages for Joe Simon at Archie Comics (The Fly<\/strong> and that red-headed kid, too) before becoming one of the youngest artists to co-create\/illustrate a major licensed newspaper strip (Ben Casey<\/strong>, based on a popular TV medical drama). The neophyte\u2019s attempts to break in at DC were not so successful\u2026<\/p>\n

Comic book fascination never faded, and as the decade progressed, Adams drifted back to National\/DC, creating covers as inker or penciller. His chance came via anthological war comics and he eventually found himself at the vanguard of a revolution in pictorial storytelling. He made such a mark that decades later, DC celebrated his contributions by reprinting every piece of work Adams ever did for them in commemorative collections. Sadly, we\u2019re still awaiting a definitive book of his horror comics and covers, and will probably never see his sterling efforts on licensed titles like Hot Wheels<\/strong>, The Adventures of Bob Hope<\/strong> and The Adventures of Jerry Lewis<\/strong>. That\u2019s a real shame: they all display his wry facility for gag staging and personal drama…<\/p>\n

Most importantly, Adams was a tireless campaigner for creators\u2019 rights, whose efforts finally secured some long-ignored liberties and rewards for the formerly invisible stars of comic books.<\/p>\n

Back with Deadman, however, the tale is a strong one and indicates a sea change in narrative style as Deadman expedites his hunt for justice. The stories henceforth focus on those who are temporarily occupied by Brand: a string of episodic encounters mirroring the protagonist of contemporary hit TV show The Fugitive<\/strong> (and by extension, Victor Hugo\u2019s Les Mis\u00e9rables<\/strong>), with an unfairly accused victim searching for personal justice across America, to the benefit of many people in crisis.<\/p>\n

Here, that\u2019s young Jeff \u00a0Carling<\/em>, who\u2019s fallen in with a dangerous biker gang and is set up to pay for their crimes. He\u2019s also Lorna\u2019s brother, which is how Deadman gets involved in the mess, after learning the cash-strapped kid had taken out a life insurance policy on circus star Deadman just before the Hook struck\u2026<\/p>\n

Having saved the kid from a perfect frame, Brand resumes his search and, as Jack Miller took over scripting in #207, is forced to ask \u2018What Makes a Corpse Cry?<\/em> The hunt leads him to revisit the night he saved bar girl Liz Martin<\/em> from a drunken assault by her boss Rocky Manzel<\/em>, but when the spook checks in, he finds Liz and boyfriend Paul<\/em> being terrorised by Rocky, who coldly implies he caused the death of her last protector…<\/p>\n

Even after using his ghost gifts to disqualify Manzel, Deadman is compelled to help the young lovers, and exposes the club owner\u2019s criminal secret, but once again almost causes the death of his human host.<\/p>\n

Miller & Adams were providing a very different reading experience with mature tales delivered via innovative, staggeringly powerful art, but they struggled with deadlines, and \u2018How Many Ways Can a Guy Die?\u2019<\/em> was delivered in 4 parts across Strange Adventures<\/strong> #208 and 209. The revelatory tale introduces Brand\u2019s trapeze artist rival Eagle<\/em>, who had tried to kill him years before, and now seeks to replace him in the big top and Lorna\u2019s bed… whether she wants him or not. When Deadman again borrows Tiny to dissuade the thug, Eagle threatens the gentle strongman with the \u201csame thing Brand got\u201d and the ghost is convinced his quest is almost over.<\/p>\n

However, the truth is far crueller, and when Deadman uncovers his rival\u2019s actual scheme, the cost to Tiny and alternate vessel Pete<\/em> is far too high…<\/p>\n

His hunt stalled again, Brand finally thinks to check the official police investigation in #210\u2019s \u2018Hide and Seek\u2019<\/em> (cover-dated March 1968). To his disgust, he finds the case is cold, with assigned detective Michael Riley<\/em> dishonourably discharged from the force due to the testimony of a man with a hook. Sensing a breakthrough, Deadman possesses Riley and, visiting the other \u201cwitness\u201d to the former cop\u2019s reported use of excessive force, uncovers a devious plot. Sadly, despite clearing Riley\u2019s name, Brand misses The Hook who flees to Mexico but not before coldly disposing of the only man who could describe him…<\/p>\n

Hot on the trail, Deadman arrives in El Campo in #211, and endures a shocking surprise in \u2018How Close to Me My Killer?\u2019<\/em> as Miller\u2019s last story introduces wayward twin brother Cleveland Brand<\/em>. Flashbacks show the lost sibling had plenty of motive to murder his showbiz brother, but as the tale unfolds, Boston learns he has an unsuspected niece and his people-trafficking but repentant brother needs haunted help to save smuggled \u201cwetback\u201d labourers from a Texan businessman looking to whitewash his criminal endeavours…<\/p>\n

Adams took over scripting with #212 and \u2018The Fatal Call of Vengeance\u2019<\/em> sees another change of direction, adding more conventional fantasy elements to the mix as Cleveland and his daughter Lita <\/em>head north to the Hills Circus. Wearing his brother\u2019s costume, Cleve revives the Deadman act and, in Mexico, a man with a hook sees a headline and rushes back to the USA. Faster than any jet, Boston is already there and watches helplessly as his brother makes himself a target of the unknown killer. The phantom is also completely spooked by new lion tamer Kleigman<\/em> who is rude, unfriendly and missing his right hand…<\/p>\n

With everyone at odds, both Boston\u2019s returned killer and the circus family set traps with disastrous results, but in the end the Hook escapes again and it\u2019s Tiny who\u2019s left bleeding out from a gunshot\u2026<\/p>\n

\u2018The Call from Beyond!\u2019 <\/em>then tests Deadman\u2019s abilities to the limit as he enters Tiny\u2019s consciousness to expedite his recovery and break an assumed-fatal coma. Following that miracle, the restless revenant repays his debt by saving the reputation and life of Tiny\u2019s surgeon Dr. Shasti<\/em> after the medical savant is duped by murderous con artist\/medium Madam Pegeen<\/em>\u2026
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\nThe afterlife of a reluctant and selfish spectral stalwart then continues in The Brave & Bold<\/strong> #79 (August\/September 1968): heralding Adams\u2019 assumption of interior art duties on that title and launching a groundbreaking run rewriting the rulebook for strip illustration. Penned by Bob Haney, \u2018The Track of the Hook\u2019<\/em> paired the Gotham Guardian with the justice-obsessed ghost as a false trail led Boston to Gotham. After clearing up the confusions and dethroning millionaire crime-lord Carleton \u201cKubla\u201d Kaine<\/em>, Deadman returned to finding own killer. However his earthy human tragedy elevated Batman<\/strong>\u2019s costume theatrics into deeper, more mature realms of drama and action. It was probably mainstream superhero fandom\u2019s first glimpse of the ghost. During this period, Adams was writing and illustrating Brand\u2019s solo stories in Strange Adventures <\/strong>and although his consultation of the World\u2019s Greatest Detective bore little useful progress, it had provided the lonely ghost with a first genuine point of human contact…<\/p>\n

Back in Strange Adventures <\/strong># 214 (cover-dated September\/October 1968), Robert Kanigher scripted To Haunt a Killer\u2019<\/em> as Brand is seduced by loneliness into sharing the romantic experiences of Phil<\/em> and his girlfriend Ruth<\/em>. That salacious intrusion sours once Brand discovers his new meat suit is a hitman and his overreaction almost costs innocent Ruth everything\u2026<\/p>\n

When Adams returns to full control in #215, the narrative arc takes a huge leap forward as \u2018A New Lease on Death\u2019<\/em> accidentally drops his killer right in his lap. Witnessing a murder, Deadman trails the shooter all the way to Hong Kong where he finds an ancient, super-advanced League of Assassins<\/em> and discovers the truly trivial reason for his own extinction\u2026<\/p>\n

Furiously questioning \u2018Can Vengeance Be So Hollow?\u2019<\/em>, Brand meets for the first time killer mystic The Sensei<\/em> – a master murderer who has dealt with ghosts before – and helplessly, frustratingly, experiences the end of the Hook. When the sinister sage executes Boston\u2019s death-long quarry, Rama Kushna asks if a balance has been struck and capitalises on Brand\u2019s furious negative response. Brand demands true justice for everyone and inadvertently elects himself the agent of its enactment in \u2018But I Still Exist\u2019<\/em>\u2026<\/p>\n

The drama abruptly concluded in Strange Adventures<\/strong> #216 (January\/February 1969), as the grim ghost seeks to disrupt the Sensei\u2019s next scheme: the violent erasure of a Tibetan spiritual paradise. Nanda Parbat is a sanctuary for the wicked where the ancient villain\u2019s murderous recruits and other fallen folk live in inexplicable peace, harmony and safety. Such a benevolent Shangri La is bad for the business of murder, but Deadman\u2019s efforts to save the city from invasion initially falter when he flies in and suddenly becomes a living, breathing person again.<\/p>\n

… And that\u2019s where the story ended as his Strange Adventures<\/strong> run ended without warning. The next issue began reprints of Adam Strange<\/strong> and The Atomic Knights<\/strong> as the title reverted to its space opera roots. Although his own series had stalled, Deadman stuck around as a perennial walk-on (float-on?) star in many titles, beginning with a return engagement with Batman as the year ended. The<\/strong> Brave & the Bold<\/strong> #86 (October\/November 1969) found Brand back in Gotham City, where a string of civilian strangers inexplicably targeted the Caped Crimebuster. The \u201cWorld\u2019s Greatest Detective\u201d deduced that they were possessed by his former ally and that \u2018You Can\u2019t Hide from a Deadman!\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n

Scripted by Haney, the captivating epic of death, redemption and resurrection pulled together all the floating strands from Deadman\u2019s anticlimactic last issue in a classic clash that became a cornerstone of Bat-mythology forever after. Here, Adams\u2019 concepts and art revealed how Nanda Parbat was under attack by the Sensei\u2019s forces, and how Brand had been briefly brainwashed to attack the Gotham Guardian, in advance of a last-ditch defence of the holy city by the Dark Knight and Deadman\u2019s possessed twin brother Cleveland.<\/p>\n

Deadman rematerialised mere months later in a triptych of back-up tales interwoven into a larger but no-less-revolutionary Aquaman <\/strong>storyline (for the full story see Aquaman: Deadly Waters Deluxe edition<\/a> <\/strong>wherein the Sea King is despatched to a Microverse by aliens working with super villain Ocean Master<\/em>: a plot accidentally uncovered by Brand, when guilt drags him from a life of solid recuperation back to the intangible quest for cosmic justice…<\/p>\n

Here, from Aquaman <\/strong>#50-52 (March\/April to July\/August 1970), \u2018Deadman Rides Again!\u2019 <\/em>in supplemental tales written and illustrated by Adams: a complex braided crossover as the Sea King endures bizarre threats and incomprehensible rituals in a subatomic realm, whilst Brand acts invisibly and intangibly to save the hero and prevent an alien invasion.<\/p>\n

\u2018The World Cannot Wait for a Deadman\u2019 <\/em>sees the spirit flitting between dimensions with shapeshifting enigma Tatsinda<\/em>, before parallel plots converge and complete when \u2018Never Underestimate a Deadman\u2019<\/em> exhibits the extraterrestrials beaten by the ghost and his pal…
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\nDeadman\u2019s haunting wandering dramas lead to another non-team-up in Challengers of the Unknown<\/strong> #74 (June\/July 1970): a far eerier affair tailored to the rise in supernatural terror tales. \u2018To Call a Deadman\u2019<\/em> is written by Dennis O\u2019Neil, with George Tuska limning scenes featuring the still-breathing \u201cDeath-Cheaters\u201d, whilst Adams illustrated those portions focussed on Brand as he imperceptibly aids them in thwarting an ethereal psychic kidnapper seeking to steal a little girl\u2019s soul. The chilling thriller also guest-stars hardboiled private eye Jonny Double <\/strong>and every one of them is needed to defeat the ghastly menace behind the astral abduction.<\/p>\n

The same separate artist trick worked supremely well in his next manifestation as Justice League of America<\/strong> #94\u2019s \u2018Where Strikes Demonfang?\u2019<\/em> by Mike Friedrich, Dick Dillin, Adams & Joe Giella, as the ghostly guardian helps Batman, Aquaman & Green Arrow<\/strong> foil a murder mission by The Sensei\u2019s previously infallible archer Merlyn<\/em> and the League of Assassins.<\/p>\n

The period was one of constant desperate experimentation. Jack Kirby\u2019s Fourth World was a huge risk and massive gamble for an industry and company that was a watchword for conservatism and it was probably incredibly tough for editors and publishers to stop themselves interfering… and they often didn\u2019t.<\/p>\n

With sales low, spooky stories proliferating everywhere and popular wisdom saying character crossovers boosted sales, Kirby eventually caved to pressure and agreed to guest another creator\u2019s star in his stand-apart unfolding epic. Thus Forever People<\/strong> #9 hosted homeless horror hero Deadman who was made marginally manifest by a seance and a New Genesis Cosmic Cartridge. The vengeance hunter then accepted an artificial body to pursue the man who killed him (already dead remember?) in an intriguing, action-packed but ultimately ridiculous aside that began by introducing a \u2018Monster in the Morgue!\u2019<\/em> It rampaged through town before tech bandits \u2018The Scavengers\u2019<\/em> sought to steal Brand\u2019s new \u201cmobile home\u201d, and drew the wrath of ghost and teen godlings. The yarn actually ended with a plug for Kirby\u2019s forthcoming series The Demon<\/strong> and we don\u2019t talk about the divergent yarn at all around here…<\/p>\n

A far more coherent crossover came in Brave and the Bold<\/strong> #104 as Haney & Jim Aparo detailed a poignant story of love from beyond the grave in the enigmatically entitled \u2018Second Chance for a Deadman?\u2019<\/em> wherein the ghost helps Batman take down murderous mobster Lilly Lang<\/em>, wrongly assuming he can redeem her only to learn that even a corpse can be crushed by heartbreak…<\/p>\n

In World’s Finest Comics<\/strong> #223, while hunting a serial killer, Superman<\/strong> & Batman<\/strong> recruit Brand to help. Shocks abound when evidence points to the culprit being the brain-damaged, secretly institutionalised, unsuspected older brother of Bruce Wayne<\/em> but when the total truth emerges in \u2018Wipe the Blood off My Name\u2019<\/em> (Haney, Dillin & Vince Colletta), the lonely, isolated ghost goes off the rails and decides to keep possession of Thomas Wayne Jr. <\/em><\/p>\n

Batman has other ideas though…<\/p>\n

Ignoring these events, Deadman then clashes with The Phantom Stranger<\/strong> (#33, November 1974 by Drake & Mike Grell) during the Man with No Name\u2019s war against spiritual mad scientist Dr Zorn<\/em>. In \u2018Deadman\u2019s Bluff!\u2019<\/em>, the ghost\u2019s protracted, apparently obsessively pointless hunt for his own murderer is exploited by the villain and, as ever, the chase ends in frustration and fury, even though Zorn fails to spark war between the ethereal avengers, and instead causes an antagonistic partnership to be established for the future…
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\nAfter months of manhunting, Batman\u2019s search for Thomas Wayne culminates in \u2018Death Flaunts its Golden Grin\u2019<\/em> (World’s Finest Comics<\/strong> #227, February 1975 by Haney, Dillin & Tex Blaisdell), as the caped crusaders find the fugitives whilst tracking global smugglers. The moment of triumph is brief and ends in tragedy for all concerned, after which the guy in the hat gets reacquainted with the spectre in skin-tights for Phantom Stranger<\/strong> #39\u2019s \u2018Death Calls Twice for a Deadman\u2019<\/em>: a last-ditch effort to revive dwindling sales as horror stories faced their own decline. Guest-starring The Sensei, it signalled a belated return to the company\u2019s over-arching continuity, but was too little, too late. Deadman<\/strong> also co-starred in PS<\/strong> #40\u2019s \u2018In the Kingdom of the Blind\u2019<\/em> and #41\u2019s concluding chapter (February-March 1976 and both by Levitz & Carillo) \u2018A Time for Endings\u2019<\/em> as modern mage Dr Nathan Seine<\/em> sought to bring Elder Gods to Earth using blind psychic Cassandra Craft<\/em> as a medium. With that tale\u2019s finish the series ended and the Stranger all-but-vanished until the winter of 1978 and a giant-sized Deadman team-up tale from DC Super-Stars<\/strong> #18 that is regrettably omitted here…<\/p>\n

Instead Deadman – and Haney & Aparo – remanifested in B&B<\/strong> #133 to deliver \u2018Another Kind of Justice!\u2019<\/em> to rum-runner Turk Bannion<\/em> when his heir and murderer turn to a more modern form of smuggling and Dark Knight and Wandering Wraith object…<\/p>\n

The uncanny explorations end on a lighter note as Cary Bates, Kurt Schaffenberger & Colletta explore uncanny excursions on \u2018The Day Lois Lane Walked All Over Superman!\u2019<\/em> (Superman Family<\/strong> #183, May June 1977) with Brand invisibly aiding all concerned when a deadly. monomaniacal psychic begins messing with mind-control and body-borrowing…<\/p>\n

With stunning covers by Infantino, Sekowsky, Roussos, Adams, Nick Cardy, Aparo, Tatjana Wood, Kirby & Royer, this graphic grimoire perfectly captures the tone of an era in transition through a delirious run of comics masterpieces no ardent art lover or fanatical fear aficionado can do without.
\n\u00a9 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 2026 DC Comics. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n

Born today in 1927, both Hugo<\/strong> (Sergeant Kirk<\/strong>, Ernie Pike<\/strong>, Corto Maltese<\/strong>) Pratt<\/strong> and Ross<\/strong> (Metal Men<\/strong>, Wonder Woman<\/strong>, Spider-Man<\/strong>, The Punisher<\/strong>) Andru<\/strong> made major contributions to comics, as did animation historian, author, critic, and founding editor of Funnyworld<\/strong> Michael Barrier<\/strong> who arrived in 1940.<\/p>\n

Today in 1941 Neal Adams<\/strong> (Batman<\/strong>, Superman<\/strong>, Deadman<\/strong>, X-Men<\/strong>, Avengers<\/strong>, Inhumans<\/strong>, Ms. Mystic<\/strong>) was born, followed four years later by iconoclastic author Don Macgregor<\/strong> (Sabre<\/strong>, Black Panther<\/strong>, Killraven<\/strong>, Morbius<\/strong>, Detectives Inc.<\/strong>, Ragamuffins<\/strong>, Nathaniel Dusk<\/strong>, James Bond<\/strong>, Zorro<\/strong>); in 1955 by artist Brent Anderson<\/strong> (Ka-Zar the Savage<\/strong>, X-Men: God Loves, Man Kills<\/strong>, Astro City<\/strong>) and in 1976 Dustin Nguyen<\/strong> (Ascender<\/strong>, Descender<\/strong>, The Authority<\/strong>, Batman: Streets of Gotham<\/strong>, Batman: Lil Gotham<\/strong>).<\/p>\n

In 1958 today Cliff Sterrett<\/strong>\u2019s Polly and her Pals<\/strong> appeared for the last time, and in 1999 Scottish cartoonist and playwright John Glashan<\/strong> (Genius<\/em>, Lilliput<\/strong>, The Spectator<\/strong>, Punch<\/strong>, Private Eye<\/strong>, The New Yorker<\/strong>) died this day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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