A Century of Mormon Comics
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48-49_timeline:a_chandler_kafka 9/15/2010 7:19 PM Page 48 A Century of 1992 First issues of Madman (Mike Allred) and Starchild (James A. Owen), and the first appearance of Cypher (Brad Mormon Teare) in Heavy Metal magazine (curiously, this is also the year Jake Parker invented Missile Mouse who wouldn’t get his Comics own book until 2009) 1 987 Before becoming the most recognizable artist of safe Mormon cartoonery, Val Chadwick Bagley published the unfairly unpopular 1925 John Held, Jr.’s First appearance 976 with a small syndicate based work first appears in 1 1947 John Philip Dalby’s Powergirl in Canada Goblin the New Yorker of the Ric Estrada “Stories of the Book of co-created 1990 Brian Crane’s Mormon” begins appearing newspaper strip Pickles in the Deseret News enters syndication 1929 Floyd 1910 Gottfredson begins 1980 his 40-year career 1988 Sal Velluto gets his first pro- 1 Dr. Deseret, drawing Mickey fessional gig drawing Marvel’s 199 Mouse comic strips 1947 Henry Power Pack; because he once put a drug-addicted Anderson publishes 1975 Captain Canuck, one the heroes’ father in a BYU sweat- Mormon warrior, the first Mormon of the world’s few alleged shirt, rumors exist to this day that makes her debut comic book. The LDS superheroes, first the Power Pack is LDS in Captain . First Americans, with appears in print (though it’s Confederacy Herald Publishing not clear if he was Mormon House during that first appearance) 48-49_timeline:a_chandler_kafka 9/15/2010 7:19 PM Page 49 A Century of 1992 First issues of Madman (Mike Allred) and Starchild (James A. Owen), and the first appearance of Cypher (Brad Mormon Teare) in Heavy Metal magazine (curiously, this is also the year Jake Parker invented Missile Mouse who wouldn’t get his Comics own book until 2009) 1994 Ethan Van Sciver publishes the hypervio- lent Cyberfrog; he will go team up with Nathan Hale on to become one of the (no relation) most significant artists of DC’s current era, with 2008 notable runs on Green Shannon and Lantern, Flash, and others Invincible Dean Hale 3 Ryan Ottley 00 1990 Brian Crane’s 2 newspaper strip Pickles takes over and immediately enters syndication to release becomes a fan- Rapunzel’s favorite artist Revenge 2000 2006 Amy Reeder Hadley publishes 2009 Elna Baker publishes a 2010 Dr. Deseret, 1991 2000 Howard Fool’s Gold, her high-school manga, memoir that incudes images a drug-addicted Tayler’s Schlock which eventually leads to an exclusive of her sweet cartoon self; Mormon warrior, Mercenary contract with DC working on projects cartoonistas know all this makes her debut begins like Madame Xanadu and Batwoman; prose is just a dry run for her in Captain . appearing she still hasn't published the third upcoming autobiographical Confederacy online. It has and final volume of Fool’s Gold comic to be published by debuted new Scholastic material every day since.