Events for October 28

Oct 28, 1925: Leonard Starr, artist for Marvel's Sub-Mariner and the On Stage comic strip, is born.

Oct 28, 1945: Gary Hallgren, underground comix artist and participant in the Air Pirates comix, is born.

Oct 28, 1952: Jim Valentino, comic book artist and founding member of Image Comics, is born in the Bronx, NY.

Oct 28, 1964: Henrik Rehr, cartoonist, artist, and creator of the comic strip Ferd'nand, is born.

Oct 28, 1983: Otto Messmer, creator of Felix the Cat, passes away at the age of 91.

Events for October 27

Oct 27, 1930: Leo Baxendale, artist for the Bash Street Kids and founder of the Reaper Books publishing company, is born in the UK.

Oct 27, 1948: Bernard "Bernie" Wrightson, horror artist extraordinaire, is born in Baltimore, MD.

Events for October 26

Oct 26, 1931: Larry Lieber, Spider-Man newspaper comic strip artist and younger brother to Stan Lee, is born in New York City, NY.

Oct 26, 1970: The first Doonesbury comic strip is published by Universal Press Syndicate.

Events for October 24

Oct 24, 1916: Bob Kane, creator of Batman, is born in New York City, NY.

Events for October 23

Oct 23, 1963: Eric Shanower, comic artist and creator of Age of Bronze, is born in Key West, FL.

Events for October 21

Oct 21, 1955: Geof Darrow, artist for Hard Boiled, conceptual artist for the Matrix, and creator of Shaolin Cowboy, is born.

Events for October 18

Oct 18, 1973: Walter Crawford Kelly, creator of Pogo, passes away at the age of 60.

Events for October 17

Oct 17, 1914: Jerry Siegel (born Jerome Siegel), co-creator of Superman, is born in Cleveland, OH.

Events for October 16

Oct 16: Larry Young, publisher at AiT-PlanetLar Comics and writer for Astronauts in Trouble, is born.

Events for October 15

Oct 15, 1905: Windsor McKay's Little Nemo in Slumberland comic strip debuts in the New York Herald.

Events for October 14

Oct 14, 1974: Otto Oscar Binder, scripter for Captain Marvel/SHAZAM!, passes away at the age of 63.

Events for October 10

Oct 10, 1944: Cam Kennedy, comic book artist for 2000AD, is born.

Oct 10, 1957: Rumiko Takahashi, creator of Ranma 1/2, Maison Ikkoku, and Inu-Yasha, is born in Niigata, Japan.

Events for October 9

Oct 9, 1938: Russell Myers, creator of the Broom Hilda newspaper comic strip, is born.

Oct 9, 1943: Mike Peters, creator of the Mother Goose & Grimm newspaper comic strip, is born.

Oct 9, 1954: Mike Catron, former publisher of Apple Comics and co-founder of Fantagraphics Press, is born.

Oct 9, 1955: Michael Netzer (a.k.a. Mike Nasser), penciller for Wonder Woman and Green Arrow and founder of the Comic Book Creators' Party, is born in Detroit, MI.

Oct 9, 1961: Matt Wagner, creator of Mage and Grendel, is born

Events for October 6

Oct 6, 1917: Rafael Fornes Collado, Cuban cartoonist who produced the Don Sabino and Jose Delores newspaper strips, is born in Havana, Cuba.

Events for October 5

Oct 5, 1922: Bil Keane, creator of the Family Circus, is born in Philadelphia, PA.

Oct 5, 1924: Robert "Bob" Thaves, creator and writer/artist for the Frank and Ernest comic strip, is born.

Events for October 4

Oct 4, 1931: Chester Gould's Dick Tracy makes his debut in his newspaper comic strip.

Events for October 3

Oct 3, 1924: Harvey Kurtzman, creator of Mad Magazine, is born in New York City, NY.

Oct 3, 1967: Rob Liefeld, comic book artist and founding member of Image Comics, is born in Fullerton, CA.

Events for October 2

Oct 2, 1909: Alex Raymond, creator of Flash Gordon, is born in New Rochelle, NY.

Oct 2, 1950: The first Peanuts comic strip is published nationwide.

Events for October

1952: Mad Magazine #1 debuts from the usual gang of idiots.

1959: The Silver Age Green Lantern debuts in DC Comics' Showcase #22, by John Broome and Gil Kane.

1970: Roy Thomas and Barry Windsor-Smith bring Robert E. Howard's pulp hero Conan to comics with Marvel's Conan the Barbarian #1.

1974: Wolverine makes his first appearance in Marvel's Incredible Hulk #180 (although this is only a dramatic last-page entrance -- most comic book aficionados put his first appearance in Hulk #181, published the following month).

1980: Marv Wolfman, George Perez, and Len Wein introduce the New Teen Titans in DC Comics Presents #26. They would get their own title the next month.

1986: To commemorate its 25th anniversary, Marvel Comics launches the "New Universe," consisting of 8 new titles unconnected with the then-current Marvel Comics continuity. The experiment would fold within three years.