Kendra Saunders (June 16, 1999) This Day In Comics

Kendra Saunders (June 16, 1999) JSA Secret Files #1 Kendra Saunders first appeared in JSA Secret Files and Origins #1 (June 16, 1999). She was a young woman who committed suicide. When Kendra’s soul left her body, that of her grandfather’s first cousin Shiera Hall, the Golden Age Hawkgirl entered it, making Kendra a walk-in. […]

Hugh Hazzard (June 16, 1939) This Day In Comics

Hugh Hazzard (June 16, 1939) This Day In Comics Hugh Hazzard is a man with connections to a large city police department. He is involved in the investigation of crimes committed by a mysterious robot. Hugh manages to temporarily deactivate the robot, and climbs inside its hollow chest to hitch a ride to the robot’s […]

Sandman (June 15, 1939) This Day In Comics

Wesley Dodds, the Sandman, first appeared in Adventure Comics #40 (June 15, 1939). One of the medium’s seminal “mystery men”, as referred to at the time, the Sandman straddled the pulp magazine detective tradition and the emerging superhero tradition by dint of his dual identity and his fanciful, masked attire and weapon: an exotic “gas […]

Nova (June 15, 1976) This Day In Comics

Nova (June 15, 1976) This Day In Comics When the last surviving member of the planet Xandar’s elite Nova Corps, Rhomann Dey, is dying, he selects New York high school student Richard Rider to replace him. Rider is given the uniform and powers of a Nova Centurion but little instruction on how to use them. […]

Doctor Eclipse (June 15, 1993) This Day In Comics

Doctor Eclipse (June 15, 1993) This Day In Comics Doctor Eclipse is a foe of Solar, Man of the Atom. He was originally Fred Bender, but after being defeated by Solar and left to die in the desert, he sought Master Darque and asked him to replenish his powers. Master Darque was himself a foe […]

Tim Drake (June 13, 1989) This Day In Comics

Tim Drake (June 13, 1989) This Day In Comics Tim Drake was named after Tim Burton, director of the then-upcoming 1989 film, and introduced in Batman #436 (June 13, 1989). Tim Drake is the son of Jack Drake and Janet Drake, coming from the same social class as Bruce Wayne. When he was a young […]

Amalgamax (June 13, 1967): Origin and Debut of Xan as Amalgamax

Amalgamax (June 13, 1967) This Day In Comics Xan was, at least in his original form, a human-looking being born on an as-yet-unnamed distant planet. His father, a being named Vyl, was an intergalactic criminal who was apprehended and imprisoned for his crimes following an encounter with the Earth heroes Superman and Batman, and who […]

Red Tornado (June 13, 1968) This Day In Comics

Red Tornado: This Day in Comics (June 13, 1968) Red Tornado’s unique origin story involves the fusion of two distinct entities: an android body, crafted by the notorious supervillain T. O. Morrow, and the Tornado Champion from Earth-One’s planet Rann. This intriguing character made his debut in Justice League of America #64, published on June […]

Flint Marko (June 11,1963) This Day In Comics

Flint Marko flees to a nuclear testing site on a beach near Savannah, Georgia where he comes into contact with sand that had been irradiated by an experimental reactor. His body and the radioactive sand bond, changing Marko’s molecular structure into sand. Impressed, he calls himself the Sandman after his new powers. Marko https://www.thecomicbookaddicts.com/2022/09/the-amazing-spider-man-1963-268/ with […]

Prime #1 (June 11, 1993) This Day In Comics

Prime #1 (June 11, 1993) This Day In Comics Prime is really a thirteen-year-old boy named Kevin Green with the power to transform into a super-powered adult. He debuted in Prime #1 (June 11, 1993) under Malibu Comics’ Ultraverse imprint. Kevin retains the thoughts, memories and consciousness of his thirteen-year-old self as Prime. Kevin transforms […]