Phoenix (June 19, 1979) – This Day In Comics
Phoenix (June 19, 1979) – This Day In Comics – Uncanny X-Men #125 In an attempt to save her fellow X-Men by piloting their damaged shuttle back to earth, Jean was exposed to fatal levels of radiation. Dying but determined to save Scott and her friends, Jean’s love pushed her to reach her full potential […]
Gambit (June 19, 1990) – This Day In Comics
Gambit (June 19, 1990) – This Day In Comics – Uncanny X-Men #266 Remy Etienne LeBeau was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. He was kidnapped from the hospital where he was born, then raised by the LeBeau Clan Thieves’ Guild, and given to the Antiquary as a tribute. Remy’s bio-kinetic charging abilities manifested early in […]
Titanium Man (June 18, 1965) This Day In Comics
Titanium Man (June 18, 1965) – This Day In Comics Boris Bullski was born in Makeyevka, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union. He was a KGB-member when he was a young man. An ambitious official of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Boris Bullski was demoted after displeasing his superiors. While working as an administrator of […]
Nitro (June 18, 1974) This Day In Comics
Nitro (June 18, 1974) This Day In Comics Robert Hunter was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania. He was an electrical engineer. Due to genetic alteration carried out on him by the Kree Lunatic Legion, Robert gained the ability to explode and reform himself at will and became a professional criminal. Some time later, he exposed Captain […]
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. […]
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 […]