It's comic book artist and Facebook friend, Joe Benitez's birthday. Happy Birthday Joe !!
Birthdays
| Joe Benitez 1971, comic book artist. He is co-creator and penciller of Weapon Zero. Other titles he has worked on include The Darkness, The Magdalena, as well as work for DC Comics |
| Lee Elias 1920, comics artist. He was best known for his work on the Black Cat comic book published by Harvey Comics in the 1940s. He started working in comics in 1943 at Fiction House, where his work included features like Captain Wings in Wing Comics, on which he succeeded Bob Lubbers, as well as the western hero Firehair. After leaving Fiction House in 1946, he worked for several different comics companies, including Timely Comics, Hillman, and National/DC (where he worked on characters like the Flash, Tommy Tomorrow,[1] and Black Canary). |
| Bill Williams 1915, actor, New York Theatergoer - King Kong (1933), Bill Twining / Dr. Arnold Bryan / Dr. Alan Cathcart / Dr. John Barlow / Paul Cameron- Science Fiction Theatre (5 episodes, 1955-1957), John Hand - Space Master X-7 (1958), Dr. Stacy Croydon - Men into Space (1 episode, "Asteroid"1959), Capt. Mead Ralston - Spaceflight IC-1: An Adventure in Space (1965), Multimillionaire - Batman (2 episodes, "Fine Finny Fiends", "Batman Makes the Scenes", 1966), Dutch - The Giant Spider Invasion (1975), Dale Turner - A Fire in the Sky (1978) (TV). Father of William Katt. Bill turned down the lead in the adventure series "Sea Hunt" (1958), which eventually went to Lloyd Bridges, because he didn't think an underwater show would work well on TV. After the show became a hit with Bridges, Bill decided to try a water-themed series of his own, but it was short-lived. |
| Frank Bellamy 1917, comic book artist, best known for his work on the Eagle comic, for which he illustrated Heros the Spartan and Fraser of Africa. He reworked its flagship Dan Dare strip. He also drew Thunderbirds in a dramatic two-page format for the weekly comic TV Century 21. He drew the newspaper strip Garth for the London Daily Mirror. He also regularly produced illustrations for the BBC's Radio Times television listings magazine, in particular for the Doctor Who television programme. |
| Richard Libertini 1933, actor, Rick - The Bionic Woman (1 episode, "Once a Thief", 1977), Geezil - Popeye (1980), Mr. Strand - Mork & Mindy (1 episode, "Twelve Angry Appliances", 1981), Dijon - DuckTales: The Movie - Treasure of the Lost Lamp (1990) (voice), Dijon - Disney's DuckTales (3 episodes, 1990), Wally Llama - Steven Spielberg Presents Animaniacs (1 episode, "Wally Llama/Where Rodents Dare", 1993), Sore Throat - Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman (1 episode, "Honeymoon in Metropolis", 1993), Talleyrand - Pinky and the Brain (1 episode, "Napoleon Brainaparte", 1995), Akorem Laan - Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1 episode, "Accession", 1996), Commissioner - The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest (1 episode, "Bloodlines", 1996), Dr. Myrell - The Zeta Project (1 episode,"The Wrong Morph", 2002). |
| Booker Bradshaw 1940, actor, Dr. B'Dula / Dr. Kenneth Kiley - Tarzan (2 episodes, 1966-1968), Dr. M'Benga - Star Trek (2 episodes, "A Private Little War", "That Which Survives", 1968-1969), Additional Voices - Alvin and the Chipmunks (13 episodes, 1983), The Centaur - Alice Through the Looking Glass (1987) (TV) (voice). |
| Ben Lemon 1955, actor, Jev - Star Trek: The Next Generation (1 episode, "Violations", 1992). |
| Nicole Randall 1975, actress / stuntwoman, Female Tarkalean - Star Trek: Enterprise (1 episode, "Regeneration", 2003). |
Events
| 1928, Tailspin Tommy comic strip began. Illustrated by Hal Forrest and scripted by Glen Chaffin, it was the first aviation based comic strip. |
| 1997, Star Trek:Voyager, "Scorpion" airs. . |
| 2003, Star Trek:Enterprise, "The Expanse" airs. |
| 2005, Dr. Who, "The Empty Child" airs. |
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