#75YearsAgoToday @dc.com kicked off one of it’s most #bananas yet #successfulSalesGimmicks when #theCover of #StrangeAdventures #comics #8 featured an #IntelligentApe #ThePublisher soon realized #salesImproved on individual issues of #comicCovers that starred #wellSpokenSimians begat #GorillaGrodd
"The Caine Mutiny" was published #75yearsagotoday. Written by Herman Wouk, a Naval Reserve veteran, the novel won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1952. Wouk adapted the work into a stage play. The book was then eventually adapted into a film starring Humphrey Bogart.
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#75YearsAgoToday @dc.com #AllStarWestern #comics #58 saw #Comics1stSuperTeam #TheJusticeSocietyOfAmerica bumped from the #renamed #AllStarComics series to introduce #TheTriggerTwins #DonCaballero #RovingRanger & #StrongBow the series later features & stars #JohnnyThunder II until the 1961 series end
#75YearsAgoToday in #DetectiveComics #168 #10YearsAfterHisDebutInBatmanComics @dc.com gifted #TheJoker an #origin when #Batman instructed a #StateUniversityCriminologyCourse & #TheUnsolvedCaseOfTheRedHood reveals how a #MonarchPlayingCardCompany thief became #TheClownPrinceOfCrime #TheJoker85 #DC90
#75YearsAgoToday @dc.com #AllStarComics #57 #TheJusticeSocietyOfAmerica85 ended their decadeLong run of #GoldenAge adventures by tangling with #TheKey & don’t return until 1963 #FlashComics #137 then #theyTeamUpEachSummer with #TheJusticeLeague & #50YearsAgo in #AllStarComics #58 #beginNewAdventures
#75YearsAgoToday #KillerMoth debuted in @DC.com #Batman #comics #63 #prisoner234046 #readsAboutTheBatCaveInANewspaper & decides to begin a career as #TheCriminalsBatman #helpingFellowFelonsEvadeTheLaw with a #MothCave & #MothMobile #almostAGenerationLater #responsibleFor #MillionDollarDebutOfBatgirl
#75YearsAgoToday based on 1937-1952 #radioShow that spawned #4FeatureFilms & a #TVSeries from 1950-1952 #BigTown #comics #1 debuted @dc.com features #TheIllustratedPress #ManagingEditor #SteveWilson & #hisReporter #Lorelei diving into adventure #SeriesRuns for 50 issues til 1958
#75YearsAgoToday in @dc.com #WonderWoman #comics #45 #OriginalWonderWomanArtist #HGPeter & #RobertKanigher recount #TheWonderWomanStory to #femaleReporter #MaryEllenLane omits #herBirthFromClay reveals why #menArentAllowed on #ParadiseIsland & #Giganta ID’d #herTopCompetitor in contest to #MansWorld
#75yearsagotoday, Puerto Rican nationalists tried to assassinate Harry Truman. One of the men, Griselio Torresola, fatally injured a police officer and wounded 2 more before being killed. The other, Oscar Collazo, later received a commutation of a life sentence from Jimmy Carter.
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#75YearsAgoToday in @dc.com #Batman #comics #62 it’s revealed that #Earth2 #SelinaKyle #turnedToCrime as #TheCatwoman85 #afterReceivingAHeadInjuryInAPlaneCrash she recalls this after #anotherBlowRestoresHerMemory of #herFormerCareer as a #stewardess & #sheChoosesToGoStraight & open a #petShop 🐈⬛
#75YearsAgoToday #LoisLane #swooned over #PerryComo in #Superman #comics #67 entering a #singingContest forAChanceToWarble w the #crooner & wins when #sheCatchesACold that #improvesHerSingingVoice but #TheManOfSteel
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#75yearsagotoday, Edith Sampson, a Chicago-based lawyer, became the first African-American to represent the US at the United Nations. Serving as an alternate delegate until 1953, Sampson became the first Black US representative to NATO in 1961.
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"Sunset Boulevard" was released #75yearsagotoday. Starring William Holden and Gloria Swanson, the film grossed $5 million on a $2 million budget. Widely considered to be one of the best films ever made, "Sunset Boulevard" was nominated for eleven Oscars and won three.
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#75YearsAgoToday #LanaLang debuted in @dc.com #Superboy #comics #10 #ClarkKent’s hometown #Barbie via #BillFinger #JohnSikela later #LegionOfSuperHeroes #InsectQueen #reservist #60sLoisLaneComicsRival #New52 #electricalEngineer turn #DCRebirth #SuperWoman & recently married #JohnHenryIrons
#75YearsAgoToday #ChrisKL99 debuted in #StrangeAdventures #comics #1 #21stCenturySpaceExplorer named for #ChristopherColumbus & his rep for #discoveringNewWorlds irks #criminal #JanVarden who tricks him into breaking passage to #NebulaWorld so he can follow him there & #stealLargeQuantitiesOfRadium
#75YearsAgoToday #StrangeAdventures #comics #1 #scienceFiction series debuted initiates @dc.com #talkingGorillaCovers craze & introduced #CaptainComet #AtomicKnights #AnimalMan #TheEnchantress #Deadman & finally features #AdamStrange #reprints late in the series run before cancelled in 1973
#75YearsAgoToday #Superman transitioned as #MissLovelorn in #ActionComics #147 when #ClarkKent ducks out on #LoisLane while they’re pursuing a story for #TheDailyPlanet because #TheManOfSteel wants to capture #TheBlackoutBandits & #PerryWhite punishes Clark by #assigningHimTheColumn #PrideMonth
June Deniece Chandler was born #75yearsagotoday in IN. Adopting her first husband's last name and going by her middle name, Deniece Williams has recorded 17 albums and has won 4 Grammys. Best known for "Let's Hear It For The Boy," Williams also sang the theme song for "Family Ties."
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#75YearsAgoToday #TheGlobeTravelingSpy #KingFaraday debuted in #DangerTrail #comics #1 & runsTil bumpedOutBy #JohnnyPeril in last issue #5 then in 1953 #WorldsFinestComics & #notSeenAgainInComicsUntil1964 #Showcase #reprints with new #AndersonAndInfantino #covers #4pageFramingSequence & #ISpy banner
#75YearsAgoToday #UBan #Kizo & #Mala debuted in #Superman #comics #65 #3Brothers #membersOfKryptonsRulingCouncil with nefarious intentions who upon discovery by #JorEl are #shotIntoSpace in a #SuspendedAnimationBubble but when #KryptonExploded #TheSphereWasDamaged & #theyFellToEarth
#75YearsAgoToday #Deadshot debuted in #Batman #comics #59 #FloydLawton shootsFor #MaskedDefenderOfGothamCity while Batman’s OOT #BatmanReturns & investigates #hisArmedCompetitor & #deducesHisTrueCriminalIntent #LawtonTakesAim tho #BatsHadAlteredHisSights #SpandexedInThe70s 80s #SuicideSquad stalwart
Ethel Egbert (1884–1976) retired #75YearsAgoToday (Mar. 31, 1950) after 18 years as the Law Society of Alberta's chief librarian. Daughter of former Alberta Lt.-Gov. William Egbert; served on the Calgary SPCA & Calgary Golf & Country Club executives. Photo: @ucalgary.bsky.social Libraries
"Just One Obstacle"—Roy Justus' cartoon in the Minneapolis Star, reprinted in the Albertan #75YearsAgoToday. #tariffs #tariffsimpact #politicalcartoons
#75YearsAgoToday in #yyc: Sketch of new #CalgaryStampede entrance gate published in the Albertan newspaper. The new gate at 17 Av SE & Macleod Tr evokes the palisade at Fort Calgary; built in recognition of the fort's 75th anniversary. The gate replaces the original sandstone arch built in 1907.
#75YearsAgoToday #Superbaby debuted in #Superboy #comics #8 when #TheBoyOfSteel sees #TheKentFamily #photoAlbum #MaKent recountsMaking #his1stSuperPlaySuit #howTheyDiscoveredHisSuperPowersAsAnInfant & #his1stActOfSuperCrimeFighting when #someCrooksTriedToKidnapHim #Superbaby75 @jamesgunn.bsky.social
Today I visited the grave of Ephraim James Brown (1870–1950) within sight of Union Cemetery's iconic stone entrance gate. Brown was staff artist for the Calgary Municipal Railway, now #CalgaryTransit. He retired in 1935 as the street railway's foreman painter. Brown died #75YearsAgoToday in #yyc.
#75YearsAgoToday: Edgar Rice Burroughs, creator of Tarzan, dies in Encino, California, reportedly while reading the Sunday comics. Headline from the Albertan (now @calgarysun.com).
#75YearsAgoToday #ThePenguin committed #TheStateBirdCrimes in #Batman #comics #58 when upon parole he gets laughed out of #TheBirdloversSociety after #nominatingHisNamesake as a state bird & proceeds to rob the members with crimes themed to #eachMembersHomeStatesWingedRepresentative
Gloria Naylor was born #75yearsagotoday in New York City. In 1982, Naylor published "The Women of Brewster Place". The book was adapted into a television miniseries in 1989 and a 2007 musical.
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