#85YearsAgoToday #TheJester debuted in #QualityComics #SmashComics #22 when #rookieCop #ChuckLane discovers he’s a #directDescendant of a #MedievalCourtJester & decides to moonlight #fightingCrime as a #costumedAdventurer with a #maniacalManner of striking fear into the hearts of evildoers

#85YearsAgoToday #SargonTheSorcerer debuted in @dc.com #AllAmericanComics #26 #JohnSargent cameToPossess #TheRubyOfLife #gainsControlOfAnythingHeTouches #foughtCrime & evil under #StageMagician persona #toDisguiseHisTruePower movesTo #SensationComics til 1948 returns in 1969 #FlashComics anAdversary

#85YearsAgoToday #Starman debuted in @dc.com #AdventureComics #61 when FBI Agent Allen calls #astronomer #TedKnight to investigate #mysteriousElectricalCharges & he discovers #ProfessorDavis whoCreatedHis #GravityRod rescuesHimFrom #DoctorDoog #GardnerFox #JackBurnley but #originNotRevealedUntil1984

#85YearsAgoToday #Magnificus #Sivana debuted in #FawcettPublications #WhizComics #15 #readyToRumble w #TheOriginalCaptainMarvel inATaleOpening w #BillyBatson #honored for #mostOutstandingRadioWorkOfTheYear #CaptainMarvelInATuxOnADateWithBeautia & #DrSivana in disguise as #ChinatownMobBoss #DrFootuYu

#85YearsAgoToday #DrMidNite debuted in @dc.com #AllAmericanComics #25 #surgeon #DrCharlesMcNider #blindedByAMobstersBombWhileOperatingOnATrialWitness later #anOwlCrashesThruHisWindow & #whenHisBandagesAreRemoved finds that #heCanSeeInDark & crafts #BlackOutBombs #toTurnTheOperatingTablesOnCrime

#85YearsAgoToday @dc.com #WorldsBestComics #1 debuted with #Zatara #CrimsonAvenger & #1stComicToFeatureBothSupermanAndBatman tho they don’t begin to #teamUp until #71 title changes to #WorldsFinestComics with issue #2 switches to a #SupermanTeamUpTitle #withOtherHeroes from 1970-72 canceled in 1985

#85yearsagotoday, "The Philadelphia Story" premiered in New York. Starring Katherine Hepburn, the film was based on the life of Helen Hope Montgomery Scott, a Philadelphia socialite. The film won 2 Oscars and was selected for preservation in the US National Film Registry in 1995.
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Richard Franklin Lennox Thomas Pryor was born #85yearsagotoday in IL. Pryor moved to New York in 1963 and began performing. Pryor regularly appeared on TV, did a Vegas act, and wrote for TV before his big breakthrough. He appeared in nearly 50 films and recorded over 20 comedy albums
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#85YearsAgoToday #TheJusticeSocietyOfAmerica debuted in #AllStarComics #3 #SuperHeroComicsFirstSuperTeam individual @dc.com feature #heroesFightCrimeTogether #forADecade until 1950’s #finalIssue return in 1963 #SilverAge #FlashComics revealed toExist on #EarthTwo #annual #JLA #teamUpsBeginThatSummer

#85YearsAgoToday #MacysDepartmentStore debuted their #Superman balloon/float at its annual #NewYorkCity #ThanksgivingDayParade .. the 2-year old @dc.com #NumberOneSellingSuperHeroComicBookStar came to #inflated life after having been crafted by #Goodyear in #AkronOhio

#85YearsAgoToday #Midnight debuted in #QualityComics #SmashComics #18 #JackCole-created #backUp #justInCase #WillEisner’s #TheSpirit were to depart #thePublishingHouse introduces #BigCityRadioShowActor #DaveClark as #TheManCalledMidnight & #investigatingBuildersOfABuildingColapse as #aRealMysteryMan

#85yearsagotoday, the Nazis closed off the Warsaw Ghetto. The Ghetto, which was constructed between April and October, housed as many as 400,000 Jewish people when it first opened. The Ghetto was liquidated in 1943 and became the site of a concentration camp.
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The Queens-Midtown Tunnel opened to traffic #85yearsagotoday. Construction of the tunnel, designed by Ole Singstad, a civil engineer, began in 1936. The tunnel connects Manhattan with Long Island City in Queens. The tunnel is used by about 90,000 motor vehicles daily.
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#85yearsagotoday, Franklin Delano Roosevelt defeated Wendell Willkie, a New York business man, in the Election of 1940. Roosevelt won resoundingly, winning 449 Electoral College votes. Roosevelt consequently became the only person to be elected to a third term as President.
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#85YearsAgoToday #MaHunkel debuted as #TheRedTornado in @dc.com #AllAmericanComics #20 after #DinkyAndSisty are kidnapped & it’s mentioned that #GreenLanternCouldFindThemInNoTime so this #Scribbly support cast #HardscrabbleNYCHousewife dons a #stewpotHelmetAndLongJohns & #getsTheJobDone

#85YearsAgoToday #DailyPlanet #newspaper #EditorInChief #PerryWhite known for his #cigars & #GreatCaesarsGhost! catchphrase debuted in #SupermanComics #7 #alzheimers #lungCancer awareness #multiCulturalFamily advocate #JackieCooper #EdAsner #LawrenceFishburn #WendellPierce

#85YearsAgoToday #Quicksilver debuted in #NationalComics #5 #GoldenAgeQualityComicsSpeedster acquired by @dc.com & makes #DCComics debut in 1972 #FlashComics #100PageSuperSpectacular #reprint fleshed out in #The90s by #MarkWaid as #MaxMercury since @marvelcomics.bsky.social had since swiped the name

#85YearsAgoToday in #DetectiveComics #44 @dc.com #TheCrimsonAvenger switched from his original #TheShadow-inspired #CloakAndFedora costume into the #RedAndYellowSpandex look of most other #comicBookHeroes in an adventure where a #villain sets #aGorillaALionAndANestOfSnakes against #OurHero (!)

#85YearsAgoToday #Kulak debuted in @dc.com #AllStarComics #2 when #ACloudOfBlackSmoke from #anAncientInscriptionOnAParchment releases #TheHighPriestOfBrztal who challenges #TheSpectre85 on #AnAstralPlane leaving #JimCorrigan inanimate for #TheWhisperingDeath #ACurseOfHateOnAllHumanity vs #RingOfLife

Bugs Bunny was introduced to the world #85yearsagotoday. The character appeared in an eight-minute animated short called "A Wild Hare."
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#85YearsAgoToday #TheOriginalGreenLantern85 #AlanScott #firstSpokeHisOath of #TheGreenLantern in @dc.com #AllAmericanComics #18 #his3rdComicAppearance #scriptedBy #coCreator #BillFinger & #3YearsLater it’s modified to the version later adopted by #TheSIlverAgeGreenLantern #DCCOMICS90 #GREENLANTERN85

#85YearsAgoToday #TheRay debuted in #QualityComics #SmashComics #14 #reporter #RayTerrill on #upperStratosphere #experimentalBalloonRide #struckByACosmicStorm & transforming him as a #beingOfLight #ableToEmitEnergyFromHisBody debuted @dc.com in 1973 on #EarthX with #TheFreedomFighters

At the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Franklin Delano Roosevelt was nominated for president for a third time #85yearsagotoday. Roosevelt went onto win the election, becoming the only US president to serve more than two terms.
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#85YearsAgoToday in @dc.com #Superman #comics #6 #TheManOfSteel appeared to #flyForTheFirstTimeInComics & his #microscopicVision was introduced while #ClarkKent investigated a #Metropolis builder suspected of using inferior materials #SupermanCanFly85 #DCCOMIC90 @jamesgunn.bsky.social

#85YearsAgoToday in @dc.com #AdventureComics #53 #TheHourman’s city of operation was revealed as #AppletonCity & #TheMinutemenOfAmerica debuted when #TheManOfTheHour met #RadioEnthusiast #BillyMartin after his brother’s death as a #childLaborer & he #connectsOtherBoysAroundTheCountry #toReportCrime

#85YearsAgoToday #GreenLantern debuted in #AllAmericanComics #16 #engineer #AlanScott fashions #aPowerfulEmeraldRing from #aMagicLamp by #The80s has #wife #Harlequin #twoSuperKids #Jade #Obsidian rewritten as #GayAndSingle in 2012 but no #MollyMayne resolve + 2019 #DoomsdayClock #GoldenAge #lynchpin

#85YearsAgoToday #Clayface debuted in #DetectiveComics #40 @dc.com #TheOriginalStarOfDreadCastle #formerActor #makeUpArtist #BasilKarlo is #revealedTheKiller when #ArgusPictures cast #BruceWayne’s #fiancee #JulieMadison in #TheHorrorFilm #remake & #folksStartTurningUpDeadAroundTheSoundstage 🎥 💀

#85YearsAgoToday #Bulletman debuted in #NickelComics #1 #ballisticsExpert #JimBarr hoping to solve his #policeman father’s murder #appliesForTheForce but #doesntPassThePhysical #improvesHisFormAndStrength via his #crimeCureSerum & devises #ABulletShapedGravityDefyingHelmet #toFightCrime

#85YearsAgoToday #CongoBill debuted in #MoreFunComics #56 #JungleExplorer traveling w #ProfessorKent along #AfricanRiver confronted by #TheSkull orderedToLocate #lostTreasure & #escapesWithTheLoot 1948 #ColumbiaPictures #filmSerial stars #DonMcGuire #getsHisOwnComicSeries 1954 turns #Congorilla 1958

#85YearsAgoToday #Catwoman debuted in #BatmanComics #1 as #TheCat #SelinaKyle #BobKane's jet #JeanHarlow #jewelThiefAtSea #disguisedAsAnOldWoman before being exposed #clawsAndLibedosWereAlsoBared but #Batman #letHerGetAway #BatmanWeddingThatWasnt & #NineLiveActionLives to date #fromNewmarToKravitz