Misty Knight (October 24,1974) This Day In Comics
Misty Knight was a rising star with the NYPD when she was seriously injured preventing a bomb attack that forced the amputation of her right arm. Rather than take a desk job, she resigned from the police force, though she remained good friends with her long-time partner on the force Rafael Scarfe. Tony Stark provided […]
Skaar (October 24, 2007) This Day In Comics
Skaar is the son of the Hulk and Caiera the Oldstrong. He was conceived during the Hulk’s time on Caiera’s home planet of Sakaar. Following the Hulk’s departure from the planet, Skaar emerged from a cocoon with the appearance and age equivalency of a human preteen. He matured rapidly, achieving a teenage appearance in just […]
Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars #3 (1984) Covers
Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars #3 – The Crisis Within released by Marvel on July 1984 TEMPEST WITHOUT, CRISIS WITHIN Doctor Doom creates two new villains Called Volcana and Titania to take the heroes down! Meanwhile, Spider-Man battles the X-Men! Magneto releases the Wasp from his magnetic cage. She tracks him down and he proposes […]
Elektra (October 7, 1980) This Day In Comics
Elektra (October 7, 1980) This Day In Comics Elektra was born on a Greek island near the Aegean Sea. She first appeared in Daredevil #168 (October 7, 1980). Her mother gives premature birth to Elektra just before dying. When a nine-year-old Elektra was assaulted by kidnappers, the men were all killed by Orestez, who had […]
Irredeemable Ant-Man (October 4, 2006) This Day In Comics
Irredeemable Ant-Man (October 4, 1950) This Day In Comics Eric O’Grady is a low-level agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. who stumbles upon Dr. Henry “Hank” Pym’s latest incarnation of the Ant-Man suit in the S.H.I.E.L.D. headquarters. A man of very few morals and willingness to lie, cheat, steal and manipulate in order to get ahead in life, […]
Radioactive Man (Marvel Comics)
Radioactive Man (Marvel Comics) Dr. Chen Lu, Ph.D, (Chinese:陈露) aka Radioactive Man (Chinese:放射性人) was a Chinese Nuclear Physicist working for the Communist Party of the People’s Republic of China.He was exposed to high levels of radiation and mutated into a superhuman with the ability to control and emit deadly forms of radiation. Now a Chinese […]
Dontrell “Cockroach” Hamilton (September 16, 1975) This Day In Comics
Dontrell “Cockroach” Hamilton (September 16, 1975) This Day In Comics First appearing in Power Man #28 (September 16, 1975), Dontrell “Cockroach” Hamilton Dontrell Hamilton grew up in Harlem. As a child, Dontrell was frightened by the night’s noise and would gradually become accustomed to them and the cockroaches that infested his home. Since then, he […]
Deborah Fields (September 14, 2005) This Day In Comics
Deborah Fields (September 14, 2005) This Day In Comics Debrii was introduced by the New Warriors’ TV producer, Ashley, and so was the only member of Night Thrasher’s revised team to have not been hand-picked by him. The TV company’s board of directors felt that there was no “friction” in the current team – they […]
Howard the Duck (September 11, 1973) This Day In Comics
Howard the Duck first appeared in Adventure into Fear #19 (September 11, 1973) and several subsequent series have chronicled the misadventures of the ill-tempered, anthropomorphic, “funny animal” trapped on human-dominated Earth. Howard is abducted from his home planet and is dropped into the Florida Everglades by the demonic Thog the Overmaster of the realm Sominus. […]
Agamotto (September 10) This Day In Comics
Agamotto (September 10, 1963) This Day In Comics Agamotto is one of three vastly powerful benevolent beings who are collectively known as the Vishanti. It first appeared in Strange Tales #115 (September 10, 1963). Agamotto, a powerful mystic being and one of Doctor Strange’s three Vishanti, is said to have used the Eye during his time […]