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Birthdays
| Bob Layton 1953, comic book artist, writer, and editor, who has worked for Marvel Comics, Valiant Comics, DC Comics, Future Comics. Layton and Stern began publishing a fanzine called CPL (Contemporary Pictorial Literature) out of Layton's apartment. CPL rapidly became a popular fan publication, and led to the two forming an alliance with Charlton Comics to produce and publish "the now-famous Charlton Bullseye magazine". Layton becoming acquainted with the legendary Wally Wood, with whom he apprenticed. This apprenticeship led to work for Charlton (on anthology titles, but not working from the Charlton offices), Marvel and DC, while still publishing fanzines. He worked for Marvel "for about a year, then signed an exclusive one-year contract with DC in Spring/Summer 1977, taking up regular inking duties on All Star Comics, as well as inking multiple issues of Secret Society of Super-Villains, DC Super Stars and DC Special, among others.] In Nov/Dec 1977, he inked the first issue of David Michelinie's Star Hunters, and after a number of other shorter inking jobs, moved back to Marvel in late 1978, to ultimately take up one of his best remembered roles. Layton reunited with Star Hunters writer David Michelinie, to co-write a re-imagined Iron Man. The two began with November, 1978's issue #116 of Iron Man, taking over the writing from Bill Mantlo. The two would create some of the best loved Iron Man/Tony Stark stories staying with the title until #154 (Michelinie wrote a couple more issues without Layton), and then returning for a second lengthy run from February 1987's issue #215 to #250 (Dec 1989). Layton was one of the chief architects of the Valiant Universe. He co-created a number of the core characters including X-O Manowar, and later became Editor-in-Chief and Senior Vice President. His first Valiant work appeared in Magnus, Robot Fighter #1 (May, 1991), in which he inked Art Nichols' artwork from Jim Shooter's script. He would continue with Magnus for five issues (and produce covers to issue #9), while also inking the inaugural issues of Solar, Man of the Atom, which he also edited. In 2000 he co-founded Future Comics. |
| Paul Pope 1970, alternative comic book artist. Pope introduced THB in 1995, the same year he began work for Kodansha, Japan's best-known manga publisher. Pope has self-published some of his work through is own Horse Press, with other work such as One-Trick Ripoff coming from Dark Horse Comics and Heavy Liquid and 100% published under DC Comics' Vertigo imprint. |
| Joel Moore 1977, actor, Norm Spellman - Avatar (2009). |
| Christopher Reeve 1952, actor, Superman / Clark Kent - Superman (1978), Superman / Clark Kent - Superman II (1980), Superman / Clark Kent - Superman III (1983), Superman / Clark Kent - Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987), It Zwibble - Earthday Birthday (1990)(voice), Dr. Virgil Swann / Also Himself - Smallville (2 episodes, 2003-2004). |
| Robert Miano 1942, actor, Garrett Waters - The Adventures of Superboy (2 episodes, 1992), Frankie Eyes - Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1 episode, "Badda-Bing, Badda-Bang", 1999), Sheriff Lester - MorphMan (2005) (TV). |
| Beth Toussaint 1962, actress, Ishara Yar - Star Trek: The Next Generation (1 episode, "Legacy", 1990), Anna Ruggiero - Mann & Machine (1 episode, "Truth or Consequences", 1992), Anna Sheridan - Babylon 5 (1 episode, "Revelations", 1994). She appeared quire prominiently in an early Bon Jovi video. |
Events
| 1939, Jane Arden was one of the first comic strip characters to become involved in World War 2. Jane was given a war assignment in the fictional neutral kingdom of Anderia. |
| 1965, The Beatles cartoon TV show begins in the US. |
| 1968, The Champions begins on the British station ITC. |
| 1976, Holmes & Yo-Yo airs on ABC. |
| 1989, Star Trek:TNG, "Evolution" airs. |
| 1993, Star Trek:TNG, "Liaisons" airs. |
| 1995, Spellbinder airs on Nine Network. |
| 1995, Star Trek:Voyager, "Non Sequitur" airs. |
| 1996, Star Trek:Voyager, "The Swarm" airs. |
| 2002, Star Trek:Enterprise, "Carbon Creek" airs. |
| 2006, Heroes airs on NBC. |
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