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Birthdays
| Joe Giella 1928, comic book artist best known as a DC Comics inker during the late 1950s and 1960s, Starting circa 1948, Giella inked the Flash, Green Lantern, Black Canary and other characters under editor Julius Schwartz, During the early-1950s lull in superheroes, Giella inked Westerns penciled by Alex Toth (including the feature "Sierra Smith") and Gene Colan (on the series Hopalong Cassidy, in 1956, Giella began inking science-fiction stories, including the feature "Adam Strange" in Strange Adventures, and Batman stories pencilled by the likes of Sheldon Moldoff. Giella also assisted on such King Features syndicated comic strips as Flash Gordon (inking Dan Barry in 1970), and The Phantom, on which he worked for 17 years (sometimes helping Sy Barry with pencilling when deadlines became too consuming for Barry). In the early 1990s, Giella became the artist on the Mary Worth daily and Sunday newspaper strip.[1] |
| Jackson Guice 1961, comic book artist, His first credited comics work was on issue #48 the toy-spin-off title Micronauts (Dec 1982), although he had previously ghosted for Pat Broderick on Rom Annual 1982. in 1984, he drew the Marvel Comics adaptation of Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (adapted by David Michelinie), before inking Paul Chadwick's pencils (from Archie Goodwin's scripts) in the pages of Dazzler. In 1986, he penciled and inked the first seven issues of "The Dramatic Return of the Original X-Men" in Bob Layton's X-Factor, while concurrently contributing pencils (under Kyle Baker's inks) to ten issues of The New Mutants.Also in 1987, Guice collaborated on several different titles with writer Mike Baron, including issues of First Comics' Badger, Nexus and The Chronicles of Corum |
| Dan Jurgens 1959, comic book writer and artist. He is best known for creating the superhero Booster Gold, and for his lengthy runs on the Superman titles Adventures of Superman and Superman (vol. 2), particularly during The Death of Superman storyline. Other series he has been associated with include The Sensational Spider-Man (Vol. 1), Thor (vol. 2), Captain America (vol. 3), Justice League America, Metal Men, Teen Titans (vol. 2), Zero Hour, Tomb Raider: The Series, Aquaman (vol. 3), and the creator of DC Comics' imprint Tangent. |
| Alfred Linder 1902, actor, Morrie / Slippery Elm - Adventures of Superman (2 episodes, 1954-1956), Pandit Chandra Singh - Science Fiction Theatre (1 episode, "Signals from the Moon", 1956), Martin/Computer - The Invisible Boy (1957). |
| Forrester Harvey 1884, actor, Beamish - Tarzan the Ape Man (1932), Herbert Hall - The Invisible Man (1933), Beamish - Tarzan and His Mate (1934), Ben Jenkins - The Invisible Man Returns (1940). |
| Billy Curtis 1909, actor, Munchkin City Father - The Wizard of Oz (1939), Little Man - Jiggs and Maggie in Court (1948), Makuba - Jungle Jim in Pygmy Island (1950), Mole-Man - Superman and the Mole-Men (1951), Gino - Space Patrol (1 episode, "The Slaves of Planet X", 1953), Damu - Jungle Moon Men (1955), Midget - The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957), Mr. Zero - Adventures of Superman (1 episode, "Mr. Zero", 1957), Super Pup/Bark Bent - The Adventures of Superpup (1958) (TV), Martian - The Angry Red Planet (1959), Midget - Batman (2 episodes, 1966), Small copper-skinned ambassador - Star Trek (1 episode, "Journey to Babel", 1967), Child Ape - Planet of the Apes (1968), General Yoomak - Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (1 episode, "Shgoratchx! ", 1981), Creature - The Twilight Zone (segment "Personal Demons") (1 episode, 1986). |
| Kenneth Marshall 1950, actor, Colwyn - Krull (1983), Rodney Owens - Quantum Leap (1 episode, "A Hunting Will We Go - June 18, 1976", 1991), Michael Eddington - Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (9 episodes, 1994-1997). |
| Jay Karnes 1963, actor, Lieutenant Ducane - Star Trek: Voyager (1 episode, "Relativity", 1999). |
| Jeffrey "JJ" Jacob Abrams 1966, film and television producer, screenwriter, director, actor, composer, and founder of Bad Robot Productions. An Emmy and Golden Globe-winner, he created or co-created the television series Felicity, Alias, Lost, and Fringe, directed the films Mission: Impossible III and Star Trek and produced the film Cloverfield. Abrams composed the opening theme music for Alias, Lost, Fringe, and co-wrote both of the opening theme songs for Felicity. |
| Paul Rae 1968, actor, Bartender - Star Trek: Enterprise (1 episode, "North Star", 2003), Donald Long - Fringe (1 episode, "August", 2009). |
| Skelton Knaggs 1911, actor, Alf Perry - a Cabman - The Invisible Man's Revenge (1944), Rudolph, Little's Associate - Dick Tracy vs. Cueball (1946), Retner - Captain Video, Master of the Stratosphere (1951). |
Events
| 1966, Dark Shadows begins on ABC. |
| 1968, The ice cream scene is filmed for TOS: "And the Children Shall Lead". |
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