Martin Nodell, Green Lantern, Sub-Mariner, The Human Torch, Blue Twister, Fahrenheit 451, Superman, Terry and the Pirates, Firefly, Day Break.

Not only did Martin Nodell create the Golden Age Green Lantern but his team also created the Pillsbury Doughboy.

Also on this day in 1937 the Lil Abner comic strip invented Sadie Hawkins Day.


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Birthdays

Martin Nodell 1915, cartoonist and commercial artist, best known as the creator of the Golden Age superhero Green Lantern. Some of his work appeared under the pen name "Mart Dellon". Nodell began his illustrating career in 1938, working first as a freelancer. In 1940 he provided some work for Sheldon Mayer, an editor at All-American Publications. It was a subway ride in Manhattan that inspired Green Lantern. En route to his Brooklyn home in 1940, Nodell noticed a trainman waving a lantern along the darkened tracks. He coupled the imagery with a magic ring — akin to Wagner's 'Ring Cycle', which also inspired The Lord of the Rings — and the hero was born". Nodell left All-American in 1947 and joined Timely Comics where he drew postwar stories of Captain America, the Human Torch and the Sub-Mariner. In 1950, Nodell left comics to work in advertising, joining the Leo Burnett Agency as an art director. In 1965, his design team there developed the long-running flour-company mascot the Pillsbury Doughboy.

Eric Wight 1974, artist, animator, illustrator, Wight is the author of the manga, My Dead Girlfriend. He illustrated the comic book adaptation of Michael Chabon's Pulitzer Prize winning novel The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay. He was the recipient of the 2004 Russ Manning Award. He is perhaps best known as the 'ghost artist' for television character, Seth Cohen on the former Fox TV series The OC and is the creator of 'Atomic County'. For the HBO TV show Six Feet Under he created the fake vintage comic "Blue Twister". Wight was also an animator, working with Warner Bros. during the heyday of their animated output, working on such cartoons as Superman: The Animated Series, Batman Beyond, and others.

Donald Pickering 1933, actor, TV Announcer - Fahrenheit 451 (1966), Kenneth Dennistoun - Out of the Unknown (1 episode, "Second Childhood", 1966), Captain Blade / Beyus - Doctor Who (12 episodes, 1964-1987).

Herbert Rawlinson 1885, actor, Dr. Frohmann - Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe (1940)[Chs. 1, 4], Mr. Judson, Bank President - Blondie in Society (1941), Dr. Arnold Graham - Superman (1948)[Chs. 3, 9-11, 13-15].

Jack Ingram 1902, actor, Khan's Guardsman - Undersea Kingdom (1936)[Chs. 9-10], Reporter - Dick Tracy (1937/I)[Ch. 4], Slasher Stark - Dick Tracy Returns (1938), Flint, chief thug - The Shadow (1940), Stanton, thug leader - Terry and the Pirates (1940), Henchman Klein - Batman (1943)[Chs. 5-14], Kruger - Brenda Starr, Reporter (1945), Detective Lt. at Kennerly's - The Phantom Speaks (1945), Albers - Brick Bradford (1947), Henchman Anton - Superman (1948), Foster (dapper henchman) - Atom Man vs. Superman (1950), Henchman Aker - Captain Video, Master of the Stratosphere (1951)[Chs. 1, 7, 10-14].

Events

1907, A. Mutt by Bud Fisher appears on sports page of San Francisco Chronicle. Jeff is introduced to strip in 1908.

1937, Lil Abner comic strip creates Sadie Hawkins Day which becomes a pseudo-holiday.

1956, Lil Abner, the broadway musical, began at the St. James Theatre and ran for 693 performances.

1968, Star Trek:TOS, "The Tholian Web" airs.

1980, Fred and Barney Meet the Schmoo ends on NBC.

1993, Star Trek:TNG, "Force of Nature" airs.

1995, Star Trek:DS9, "Little Green Men" airs.

2000, Star Trek:Voyager, "Body and Soul" airs.

2002, Firefly, "Ariel" airs.

2006, Day Break airs on ABC.