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. […]