DC 75: Knight and Squire

The Squire first appeared in Batman#62 and created by Win Mortimer and Ira Schnapp. Became the Knight in Batman #62 in 1951

DC 75: 1948

Merry Pemberton appeared in Star Spangled Comics #81, created by Otto Binder and Win Mortimer

DC 75 - 1947

Black Canary - Created by writer Robert Kanigher and artist Carmine Infantino, the character first appeared in Flash Comics #86 (August 1947).

DC 75 - 1946

Crazy Quilt, first appeared in Boy Commandos #15 and created by Jack Kirby

DC 75 - 1945

Superboy, first appeared in More Fun Comics #101, although drawn by Joe Shuster, Jerry Siegel had no imput in this version, his first appearance was written by Don Cameron, hence the current legal problems

DC75 - 1944 bonus

Couldn't resist this one...



Terrific Whatzit - DC's first funny animal superhero, the Terrific Whatzit first appeared in Funny Stuff #1 (Summer 1944), and was created by Martin Naydel.

DC75 - 1944

Solomon Grundy, first appeared in All-American Comics #61, created by Alfred Bester and
Paul Reinman

DC75 - 1943

Alfred Beagle, Batman's original Alfred, created by Bob Kane and Jerry Robinson in Batman#16

DC75 - 1942

Womder Woman created by Charles Moulton(William Moulton Marston)and H. G. Peter in All Star Comics#8


Kid Eternity created by Otto Binder and Sheldon Moldoff in Hit Comics # 25

DC75 - 1941

Starman, created by Gardner Fox and Jack Burnley in Adventure Comics #1

DC 75 - 1940

Captain Marvel, first appearance in Whiz Comics #1 in February. Created by CC Beck and Bill Parker



Hawkman, created by Gardner Fox and first appeared in Flash Comics #1 in January that year.

DC 75 - 1939

1939 saw the birth of another enduring superhero, the Batman, created by Bob Kane and Bill Finger in Detective Comics 27.


One of my more favourite characters, Wesley Dodds, The Sandman, created by Gardner Fox and Bert Christman in World's Fair Comics #1

DC 75 - 1938

Action Comics #1, June 1938 where DC really started kicking into its stride

Superman and Zatara both appeared but of course Superman changed the world of US comics

DC 75 - 1935

Doctor Occult, created by Siegel & Shuster and one of the ones that really started it off!

75

DC Comics is 75 this year so I have decided to do 75 DC characters...

I'm going to try and do a character per year (where appropriate) but there appears to be huge chronological gaps so sometimes I will do two per year.

I will also use characters that DC later bought into their company such as Cpatain Marvel.

Group illos

I helped out a local church's Youth group with some illustrations recently. They chose the names and I did the pics for them

Catwoman

Yeah I know, been a while.

Here's a Catwoman pencil sketch I did for someone

Little Red Riding Hood

Yeah, been a while but hopefully am getting my mojo back...

Here's Lil' red