The Mega Marvel Calendar & Marvel Anniversary Appreciation

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Today appears to be the birthday for inkers. I remember Bob Almond mostly for his inks on Chris Priests Black Panther. He also runs the Inkwell Awards, honoring inkers.

Chic Stone had inked tons of Silver Age books, and I remember him inking lots of Jack Kirby.

I'll try to get up some images up later.

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From Wikipedia, some info on Chic Stone.

Shortly thereafter, Stone, began inking industry legend Jack Kirby's pencils on Fantastic Four (issues #28-38, Annual #2). He also inked Kirby on early issues of X-Men and the feature "The Mighty Thor" in Journey into Mystery, and the two artists collaborated on covers across the spectrum of Marvel's comics.[4][8]

Of his pairing with Kirby, Stone recalled in a 1997 interview,

Just before 1964 I was pounding the pavement, going from one publisher to another, picking up jobs at random. At the time I was penciling Batman, and inking Superman covers for [editor] Mort Weisinger at DC. I happened to walk into the Marvel offices at the time [editor-in-chief] Stan Lee was editing a Kirby pencil job. Looking over his shoulder I was totally awestruck by the magnificent penciling. Stan looked at me and asked, 'Chic, would you like to ink this?' My knees turned to Jell-o; all I could murmur was, 'You're kidding?' ... [After I turned in the assignment,] Stan was exceedingly pleased with my rendition of Jack's work, and from that time on I would finish one job to have another waiting. There were times I'd be working on three stories at once; working 12 to 16 hours a day was not unusual. The page rate for inking was not that great, but being able to work on Jack's pencils was a substantial bonus.[9]

Cartoonist Fred Hembeck, describing Stone as "my favorite Kirby inker", said that "beyond the bold and expressive line Stone's varied brushwork brought to Jack's power-packed pencils, the sheer fact that, by year's end, he was inking the King on Fantastic Four, Avengers, X-Men, and the Thor and Captain America features in their respective home titles gave the entire line a warm and homey sense of visual cohesiveness that it's never quite managed to achieve since."

Great insight from Hembeck here.

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Here's today's list of creators. Some famous folks (Happy B'day to Miyazaki!), but again, I don't think most have done any Marvel work.


January 5

Andrzej Mleczko b.1949
Foxo Reardon (Francis Xavier Reardon) b.1905
George Reeves b.1914
Hayao Miyazaki b.1941
Jack Hannah b.1913
Jérôme Renéaume b.1975
Lino Jeva born 1923
Mark Tatulli b.1963
Philippe Bercovici b.1963
Russ Manning b.1929
Sandy Hausler b.1959

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I'm a little behind, so here's today's and tomorrow's anniversaries.

January 6

Angelo Stano b.1953
Artie Simek b.1916
Bruce Douglas Patterson b.1953
Giacomo Pueroni b.1964
Javier Reynag b.1941
Kay Reynolds b.1951
Loro (Jean-Marc Laureau) b.1943
Martin Filchock b.1912
Matthew Manning b.1979
Wayne Barlowe b.1958

Marvel's Monster of Frankstein debuts!

Have to do a shout out for Artie Simek. According to Wikipedia, he and Sam Rosen did almost all the lettering of the Silver Age, as well as logo design. Artie Simek was the letter on FF #1!

Most the rest, I'm not familiar with. I really need to do some research. But here's a few names I recognize.


January 7

Aaron Lopresti b.1964
Alain d'Orange b.1923
Bob Wiacek b.1953
Charles Addams b.1912
Giuseppe Franzella b.1972
Jay Lynch b.1945
Jim McCann b.1974
Karl Kesel b.1959
Kevin Dooley b.1953
Liz Berube b.1943
Pierre Frisano b.1934
Susan Butcher b.1959
Werner Wejp-Olsen b.1938


Baby Blues debuts 1990
Buck Rogers debuts 1929
Charles Addams b.1912
Flash Gordon debuts 1934
Foxy Grandpa debuts 1900
Jungle Jim debuts 1934
Tarzan debuts 1929

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Here's today's list of creators. Happy B'day to Boris Vallejo! I loved the cards he did, which I think were reproduced in a book. Will have to dig that out.


January 8

Alex Turk b.1975
Aristophane b.1967
Boris Vallejo b.1941
Jacques Géron b.1950
James Pruett b.1966
Joe Pruett b.1966
John Wellington born
Ken Steacy b.1955
Lee J. Ames b.1921
Pasquale Frisenda b.1970
Peter Arno b.1904

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I'd forgotten that Boris had done some of those great 70s, black and white, mags for Marvel







And here's that book of his Marvel superheroes.

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Here are some of the cards from the Boris 1996 Marvel Masterpieces set.

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According to my Marvel Calendar, January 8 is when MARVEL TWO IN ONE #1 debuted! I loved this series. Ben Grimm was always a lot of fun, and you got to meet the rest of the Marvel Universe.




Also discovered Joe Pruett did work for Marvel. According to Wikipedia:

In 1998 He left Caliber to become a freelance writer and became a regular contributor to Marvel's X-Men books. In particular he wrote Cable during the storylines "Apocalypse: The Twelve" and "Ages of Apocalypse".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Pruett

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Here's today's list of creators. Again, none of them seem familiar to me as Marvel creators.


January 9

Adolphe Barreaux b.1899
Chic Young b.1901
Daniel Wilson b.1957
Domingo Garcia Rodriguez b.1928
Frank Margerin b.1952
Fred Burke b.1965
Gilles Mezzomo b.1958
Gwen (Gwénaël de Bonneval) b.1973
Henry Yoshitaka Kiyama b.1885
Il Vittorioso debuts 1937
Mark Moran b.1953
MJ Cullumber born
Ralston Jones b.1927

Also the Skrulls debut back in FF #2, 1962.

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Here's today's list of creators. We've got two that I think did Marvel work. I'll have to look up what Bob Lubbers did, as I don't remember any of his work. Happy B'day to Khary Randolph!

January 10

Arend van Dam b.1945
Bob Lubbers b.1922
Ernest Edwards b.1967
Fransisco Coria b.1948
Jacob Burck b.1907
Khary Randolph b.19??
Little Annie Rooney debuts 1927
Tintin debuts 1929
Éric Puech b.1963

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Some Marvel art by Khary Randolph.

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Here's January 11 list of creators. Happy B'day to Adi Granov and Bob Harras and Sam Kieth!

January 11

Adi Granov b.1977
Bernard Hislaire b.1957
Bill DuBay b.1948
Bob Harras b.1959
Brad Joyce born
Curd Ridel b.1963
Guglielmo Letteri b.1926
Luc Morjaeu b.1960
Luigi Bernardi b.1953
Miyako Matsuda Graham b.1960
Oskar Andersson b.1877
Sam Kieth b.1963
Terry Beatty b.1958
Tetsuya Chiba b.1939
Trevor Tamlin b.1968

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Here's today's list of creators. Happy B'day to Joe Quesada!

January 12

CW Kahles b.1878
Dick Kulpa b.????
Franchesco b.1965
Francisco Darnis b.1910
Fuentes Man b.1929
Joe Quesada b.1962
John Jackson Miller b.1968
Jérôme Lereculey b.1970
Louis Cance b.1939
Raeburn Van Buren b.1891
Richard Pace b.????
Scott Nickel b.19??
Takehiko Inoue b.1967
Woon Soo-yoon b.1961

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Some lovely Adi Granov Marvel art.

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Here's today's list of creators. Some interesting anniversaries today, though not much Marvel related.


January 13

Anina Bennett b.1965
Cabu b.1938
Dave Elliott b.????
Emilio Giralt Ferrando b.1921
Erik Juszezak b.1959
Jerry Acerno b.1961
Jijé (Joseph Gillain) b.1914
Mickey Mouse comic strip debuts 1930
Ron Goulart b.1933
Serge Carrère b.1958
Steve Canyon debuts 1947