Comic Book History

Turning 30: FLASH PLUS (#1); dated January 1997. By Mark Waid, Brian Augustyn, Eduardo Barreto, Gerry Fernandez, Ian Laughlin & Gaspar Saladino; cover by Barreto. #flash #dccomics

Turning 60: Banshee debuts in THE X-MEN #28; cover dated January 1967. By Roy Thomas, Werner Roth, John Tartaglione, Artie Simek & Sam Rosen; cover by Roth, Tartaglione, Rosen & Morrie Kuramoto. #xmen #marvelcomics

Turning 30: WONDER WOMAN PLUS (#1); dated January 1997. By Christopher Priest, Brian Augustyn, Mike Collins, Tom Palmer, Ian Laughlin &Gaspar Saladino; cover by Collins, Palmer & Todd Klein. #wonderwoman #dccomics

Turning 30: ANGELS OF DESTRUCTION (#1); from November 1996. By Brian Michael Bendis, Leonard Kirk, S. L. Gallant, Vinton Heuck, Robert DeCastro, Jim Amash, David Mowry, Robert Alvord, Moose Baumann, Noel Aragon & Vickie Williams; cover by Hajime Sorayama.

Turning 30: 101 WAYS TO END THE CLONE SAGA; dated January 1997. By Mark Bernardo, Ben Herrera, Mike Christian, Kevin Tinsley & Janice Chiang; cover by Herrera & Christian. #MarvelComics

Turning 60: THE BEST OF BUGS BUNNY #1; dated January 1967. This series ran two issues. #bugsbunny #looneytunes #goldkeycomics

Turning 30: The Thunderbolts assemble in THE INCREDIBLE HULK #449; dated January 1997. By Peter David, Mike Deodato, Tom Wegrzyn, Glynis Oliver, Kolja Fuchs & Richard Starkings; cover by Deodato. #hulk #marvelcomics

Turning 90: The Comics Magazine changes titles with FUNNY PAGES #6; dated November 1936.

Turning 50: THE PHANTOM #74 ends the series; dated January 1977. Interior work and cover by Don Newton. #charltoncomics

Turning 50: WALT DISNEY WINNIE THE POOH #1; dated January 1977. By Vic Lockman, Pete Alvarado & Larry Mayer; cover by Alvarado. #waltdisney #goldkeycomics

Turning 50: BLACK PANTHER #1; dated January 1977. By Jack Kirby, Mike Royer & Dave Hunt; cover by Kirby & John Verpoorten. #blackpanther #marvelcomics

Turning 50: RED SONJA #1; cover dated January 1977. By Ed Summer, Roy Thomas, Clair Noto & Frank Thorne; cover by Thorne & Danny Crespi. #marvelcomics

Turning 80: Santa Claus Funnies are featured in FOUR COLOR #128; dated December 1946. By Dan Noonan, Oskar Lebeck, Morris Gollub & Walt Kelly; cover by Gollub. #dellcomics

Turning 50: MS. MARVEL #1; dated January 1977. By Gerry Conway, Carla Conway, John Buscema, Joe Sinnott, Dave Hunt, Marie Severin & John Costanza; cover by John Romita & Dick Giordano. #captainmarvel #marvelcomics

Turning 80: FOXY FAGAN COMICS #1; dated December 1946. Includes interior work and cover by Harvey Eisenberg. This series ran seven issues.

Turning 80: SILVER STREAK COMICS #23 ends the series; from October 1946. By Lou Ferstadt & Charles Winter; cover by Ferstadt.

Turning 50: LOGAN’S RUN #1; dated January 1977. By Gerry Conway, George Pérez, Klaus Janson, Marie Severin & Joe Rosen; cover by Pérez, Al Milgrom & Danny Crespi. This series ran seven issues. #marvelcomics

Turning 50: DOCTOR STRANGE ANNUAL #1; from October 1976. By P. Craig Russell, Marv Wolfman & John Costanza; cover by Dave Cockrum. #doctorstrange #marvelcomics

Turning 50: MARVEL TEAM-UP ANNUAL #1; from October 1976. By Chris Claremont, Bonnie Wilford, Bill Mantlo, Sal Buscema, Mike Esposito, Hugh Paley & Jim Novak; cover by Dave Cockrum. #marvelcomics