Daily Birthdays and Events in Sci-Fi, Comics and related areas

March 7, 2012

Gray Morrow, Classics Illustrated, Green Lantern: Mosaic, The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy, Warlock, Elseworlds, Westworld, Lost in Space, V.

Gray Morrow's birthday is today. Gray was one of those artists that I appreciated a lot especially when it came to the Classics Illustrated comics.


Enjoy !!!



Birthdays

Gray Morrow 1934, cartoonist, illustrator of the syndicated Tarzan, Buck Rogers, Flash Gordon and Prince Valiant comic strips, among others. Morrow was a feature cover and interior illustrator for many science fiction-genre magazines in the 1960s and 1970s. Examples of his work graced most of the covers of the American Perry Rhodan series. He also did the illustrations for the original Galaxy magazine publication of the Hugo-winning novella Soldier, Ask Not by Gordon R. Dickson. Morrow worked with Warren Publishing from 1964 to 1967 on the comic magazines Creepy, Eerie and Blazing Combat, doing both stories and covers. In the early 1960s, Morrow produced three complete titles for the Gilberton Company's Classics Illustrated series: No. 159, The Octopus by Frank Norris (November 1960); No. 163, Master of the World by Jules Verne (July 1961); No. 165, The Queen's Necklace by Alexandre Dumas (January 1962). In a letter to Classics historian William B. Jones, Jr., the artist stated that he penciled and inked The Queen's Necklace at a rate of "eight pages a day." Morrow also supplied drawings for chapters in one Classics Illustrated Special Issue -- No. 159A, Rockets, Jets and Missiles (December 1960) -- and in a substantial number of World Around Us issues: Prehistoric Animals (November 1959); Great Scientists (February 1960); The Jungle (March 1960); American Presidents (May 1960); Boating (June 1960); Great Explorers (July 1960); Ghosts (August 1960); Magic (September 1960); High Adventure (November 1960); Whaling (December 1960); The Vikings (January 1961); For Gold and Glory (April 1961); Famous Teens (May 1961).
Cully Hamner 1969, comic book artist, Since his 1991 debut on Green Lantern: Mosaic, Hamner has worked for nearly every major American comic book publisher, and is chiefly known for such titles as the aforementioned Green Lantern: Mosaic, Blue Beetle, and Red. He is also one of the original members of Atlanta's Gaijin Studios, from which he still works. Some of his work can be seen in Top Cow's 2005 Warren Ellis series Down and as the artist and designer of DC Comics' current Blue Beetle character. He was the regular artist for that character's monthly series in 2006 and 2007, leaving that title with its tenth issue, though he continued through the following year as the regular cover artist for that book. He later handled the art chores on Black Lightning: Year One,
Richard Vernon 1925, actor, Sir Gerald Walters - Journey to the Unknown (1 episode, "The Madison Equation", 1969), Pa Stone - UFO (1 episode, "The Sound of Silence", 1971), Slartibartfast - The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy (2 episodes, 1981).
Alan Weiss ????, comic book artist, known for his work on Warlock, Avengers, Captain America and Spider-Man. He is the creator, writer and artist of Steelgrip Starkey and the All-Purpose Power Tool for Marvel Comics' Epic Illustrated and also creator, co-writer and artist of War Dancer for Defiant Comics. Weiss has also worked on DC Comics' alternate universe series Elseworlds. Weiss' other works include Batman (Elseworlds), War Dancer, Tom Strong and many other publications.
Davis Roberts 1917, actor, Emissary - Tarzan's Peril (1951), Kanzuma - Tarzan (1 episode, "The Pride of the Lioness", 1967), Dr. Ozaba / Lewis - Star Trek (2 episodes, "The Devil in the Dark", "The Empath", 1967-1968), Supervisor - Westworld (1973), Mr. Jackson - Ark II (1 episode, "The Rule", 1976), The Amazing Spider-Man (1 episode, "Photo Finish",1979).
Donna Murphy 1959, actress, Anij - Star Trek: Insurrection (1998), Natalie Streck - The Astronaut's Wife (1999), Rosalie Octavius - Spider-Man 2 (2004).
Jonathan Del Arco 1966, actor, Third of Five / Hugh - Star Trek: The Next Generation (2 episodes, "I, Borg", "Descent: Part 2", 1992-1993), Fantome - Star Trek: Voyager (1 episode, 2001), Mr. Caviezel - Dollhouse (1 episode, "Meet Jane Doe", 2009).
Jennifer Hammon 1973, actor, Female N.D. - Star Trek: Voyager (1 episode, "Author, Author", 2001), ICU Nurse - The X Files (1 episode, "Empedocles", 2001).
Raymond Largay 1886, actor, Russell, the furrier - Dick Tracy's G-Men (1939) [Chs. 8-9],
Daniel J. Travanti 1940, Space Hippie - Lost in Space (1 episode, "Collision oif the Planets", 1967), Thornwell - The Outer Limits (1 episode, "The Voice of Reason", 1995).
Paul Preuss 1942, sci-fi author, Medusa Encounter, Starfire
Michael Eisner 1942, CEO, Walt Disney
John Heard 1945, actor, Paul Stein - The Outer Limits (1 episode, "Dark Matters", 1995), Commander Barry Garner - Battlestar Galactica (1 episode, "The Captain's Hand", 2006), Ace Morgan - Justice League: The New Frontier (2008) (V) (voice).
Richard Lawson 1947, actor, Barker - The Fantastic Journey (1 episode, "The Funhouse", 1977), Dr. Ben Taylor - V (1983) (TV), Mission Flight Director Maynard Nixon - Mars and Beyond (2000).
Donna Loren 1947, actress, Susie - Batman (2 episodes, "The Joker Goes to School", "He Meets His Match, the Grisly Ghoul", 1966).
Cameron Daddo 1965, actor, Rafe Valentine - Andromeda (1 episode, "The Ties That Bind", 2000), Jeff Marlowe - Earth: Final Conflict (1 episode, "Hearts and Minds", 2001).
Anne Kristen 1937, actress, Felina - Adam Adamant Lives! (1 episode, "Sing a Song of Murder", 1966), Bertha Fluss - Space Precinct (1 episode, "Deathwatch: Part 1", 1995).


Events

1955, Mary Martin in Peter Pan is televised.
1959, Tillie the Toiler daily strip ends
1969, Star Trek:TOS, "The Savage Curtain" airs.
1988, Probe airs on ABC.
2001, Star Trek:VOY, "Human Error" airs.

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