As of late in Comics History, January 30: Happy birthday, Phil Collins!

Born on lately: Millie “The Model” Collins’s cousin Phil Collins*!








from “When Guests Plunge Out!” in Millie the Model #176 (Shock, November 1969), script by Stan Lee, pencils by Stan Goldberg, inks by John Verpoorten (?), letters by Artie Simek


Tranquil, there might maybe be gotta now not lower than be one perfect declare about Phil Collins, proper?








Other things Phil turned famed for: as a singer, drummer, songwriter, chronicle producer and actor. And, in response to MAD journal, for one joke and one joke most effective:








from “Hot Albums of the 1990’s…A Ask Abet” in MAD #282 (October 1988), script by Russ Cooper, pencils and inks by Rick Tulka


Is now not that proper, MAD?








from “If truth be told Appropriate Sponsors for Rock Excursions” in MAD #286 (April 1989), script by Charlie Kadau


Anyway, Happy birthday, Phil Collins, and sussudio to you, too! Here, I sold ya a comic e book e book. I absorb you should maybe likely genuinely appreciate it.








quilt of The Myth of the Alamo: An Illustrated History of the Siege and Plunge of the Alamo (Frederic Ray, 1955), artist uncredited and unknown


*There might maybe be not any such thing as a genuinely proof within the story that this shadowy man’s last title genuinely is Collins**, nevertheless hi there, the leisure for a joke, huh?



**Sure, I genuinely submitted a correction to the “characters” list on Comics.org for this.