Batman, Aquaman, The Spectre, Mad, Invaders From Mars, Eradicators, North Country, King Kong, Captain America, Darkman, Ghosts of Mars.

You know you've made the big time like one of our birthday people when you have your art on Coca Cola cans.


Enjoy !!!



Birthdays

Jim Aparo 1932, comic book artist best known for his 1960's and 1970's work on various DC Comics including Batman, Aquaman and The Spectre (during a short run in Adventure Comics).

Ian David Marsden 1967, cartoonist, designer and artist. Ian has sold cartoons and illustrations to various international publications including Mad Magazine, The New Yorker and many others and his artwork has been seen in advertising campaigns and even on Coca Cola cans.

Helena Carter 1923, actor, Dr. Pat Blake, MD - Invaders from Mars (1953).

John Tobias 1969, comic book artist, graphic designer and video game designer. Along with Ed Boon he is one of the creators of the groundbreaking Mortal Kombat fighting game series. Tobias was an artist for The Real Ghostbusters comic book series before joining Midway Games.

Shane White 1970, comic book artist, His earliest comic work appeared in small-press comics in the mid-80s. His first professional penciling gig was for Silverwolf Comics' (Greater Mercury Comics) Eradicators in 1990. Several years later he did work for DC/Paradox's Big Book of Urban Legends. In 1998 Caliber Comics hired him along with Martin Powell to adapt Whitley Strieber's Communion book, of which two of the four issues were ultimately finished. More recently, his first graphic novel North Country, a 96-page full-color memoir published by NBM Publishing, reveals the hard-scrabble life of living in a blue-collar mill town in upstate New York.

Gil Perkins 1907, actor, Sailor - King Kong (1933), Barn Thug [Ch. 2]/Hotel Room Thug [Ch. 9]/Waiter Thug [Chs. 13-14] - Captain America (1944), Charles Cannon - Meteor Man (1958), Bluebeard - Batman (1966), Sergeant - The Time Tunnel (1 episode, "Raiders from Outer Space", 1967), Dicer / Cauliflower / Foreman - Batman (6 episodes, 1966-1968), Slave #3 - Star Trek (1 episode, "Bread and Circuses", 1968), Old Man - Land of the Giants (1 episode, "The Trap", 1968).

Events

1990, Darkman is released.

2001, Ghosts of Mars is released.