#bob rozakis

[cantsayidont]

November 1976. The November calendar from the 1976 SUPER DC CALENDAR. (The main image, as the signatures indicate, is by Neal Adams and Dick Giordano.)

I think all the birthdates were probably selected by DC editor Bob Rozakis. They popped up occasionally in stories and in responses in his "Ask the Answer Man" column in DC books of the '70s and early '80s. As for the vignettes in the calendar itself, I can identify some of them, but not all. (For instance, the Robin vignette looks like Irv Novick, while I think Martha Kent's is by George Papp.)

[onlylonelylatino]

Ragman by Joe Kubert

[stateofconstantemotion]

wait wait...superbat joint monitor duty is canon??!

i thought it was just a fandom hc :')

World's Finest #277

"I have my wings and I must Fly"

written by Bob Rozakis

pencils by Alex Saviuk

inks by Rodin Rodriguez

colors by Jerry Serpe

letters by Milt Snapinn

[nerds-yearbook]

The New Teen Titans were introduced in the anthology DC Comics Presents 26#, cover date of October, 1980. The issue premiered Beast Boy/Changling, Cyborg, Raven, Starfire and Silas Stone who were created by Marv Wolfman and George Perez. ("Superman and Green Lantern: Between Friend and Foe", "New Teen Titans: Where Nightmares Begin", "Whatever Happened to Sargon the Sorcerer?", DC comic Event)

[comicarthistory]

Centurions #3 cover. 1987. Art by Don Heck and Al Vey

[brevoorthistoryofcomics]

BHOC: THE FLASH #267

My regular 7-11 still wasn’t getting copies of THE FLASH, so I wound up keeping up with the title by running across them in other further-off locations, during family shopping trips and the like. And so, I came across this particular issue at a distant 7-11 that was across the street from the fast food restaurant at which we had lunch that day. I want to say that it was a Jack In The Box, but I’m…

[ufonaut]

Yes, the Comicmobile, the fabled vehicle of comics history that many have heard of but few have seen (and even fewer have actually purchased anything from). For those of you who are unfamiliar with it: it was Sol’s idea that if kids living in the suburbs couldn’t get to the old “mom and pop stores” that sold comics, we should bring the comics to them. So he leased a big blue van, had “The DC Comicmobile” painted on it, with plastered superhero stickers. Then he stocked it with leftover comics from the DC library and, at the start of the Memorial Day weekend, sent Michael Uslan (much later the executive producer of the Batman and Swamp Thing movies, among lots of other things) out on the streets of New Jersey to sell them.

Bob Rozakis on his summer of hawking comics from the official DC Comicmobile in ‘73, from Back Issue #100.

[comfortfoodcontent]

1985 'Mazing Man DC Comics House Ad

[cryptocollectibles]

DC Comics Presents #84 (August 1985) by DC Comics

Written by Bob Rozakis, drawn by Jack Kirby, Alex Toth & Greg Theakston.

[all-action-all-picture]

1985 ad for Superman: The Secret Years from DC by Bob Rozakis, Curt Swan and Kurt Schaffenberger. Each issue also featured a cover by Frank Miller but they're not among his best work (in my opinion).

[misterdtour]

The Superheroes vs. Supervillains Baseball Game

Baseball season has begun, just a couple weeks old now, so I figured it would be a good time to look back at a baseball-themed comic. (more…) “”

[cantsayidont]

March 1981. One of the recurring contrivances of the Superboy feature was that Superboy inevitably met almost every other DC character, either via time travel (e.g., Robin) or in a BEFORE THEY WERE STARS encounter with them in their youth (e.g., Oliver Queen, Bruce Wayne, Barbara Gordon). Arguably the strangest of those meetings is the backup story in THE NEW ADVENTURES OF SUPERBOY #15–16, by Bob Rozakis, John Calnan, and Tex Blaisdell, where Superboy is thrown back in time to meet the young Clark Kent of Earth-2 and ends up training the other Clark in the use of his powers. You're obviously not supposed to think about it too hard, but if you know anything about Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster's first legal battle with National-DC over the rights to Superman, the assertion that the Golden Age Clark Kent was never Superboy takes on a vaguely malicious aura. (The central question of that lawsuit was whether Superboy, who first appeared in MORE FUN COMICS #101 in 1945, was a new character or, as National contended at the time, simply a variation on Superman, too minor to justify a distinct copyright or separate rights agreement.)

[onlylonelylatino]

Air Wave I & II by Alex Saviuk

[smashedpages]

Happy birthday to Bob Rozakis!

[nerds-yearbook]

The limited series Hero Hotline ended with issue 6# with the cover date of September, 1989. The issue introduced Batmyte created by Bob Rozakis and Stephen DeStefano. (Hero Hotline 6#, DC Comic Event)

[comicarthistory]

Page from Detective Comics #468. 1977. Art by Marshall Rogers and Terry Austin.