On June 23, 1989, Tim Burton’s noir spin on the well-known story of the DC Comics hero Batman was released in theaters.
Michael Keaton starred in the film as the multimillionaire Bruce Wayne, who has transformed himself into the crime-fighting Batman with Jack Nicholson as his archenemyThe Joker.
J. Wellington Wimpy (above), generally referred to as Wimpy, is one of the characters in the comic stripPopeye, by E. C. Segar and originally called Thimble Theatre, and in the Popeye cartoons based upon the strip. Wimpy debuted in the strip in 1931 and was one of the dominant characters in the newspaper strip, but when Popeye was adapted as an animated cartoon series by Fleischer Studios, Wimpy became a minor character.
His parents were Robert North Bradbury and the former Nieta Quinn. Hehad a twin brother, Bill, also an actor.
After years of touring, the family settled in Hollywood in the late 1910s, where his father soon found work in the movies, first as an actor, later as a director.
Steele’s career began to take off in 1927, when he was hired by production company Film Booking Offices of America to star in a series of Westerns. Renamed Bob Steele, he soon made a name for himself, and in the late 1920s, 1930s and 1940s starred in B-Westerns for almost every minor film studio,
Steele is said to have been the inspiration for the character "Cowboy Bob" in the Dennis The Menace comic strip.
NEW YORK (AP) — A rare copy of a Superman #1 comic book
that sold on newsstands for a dime in 1939 was purchased for
$2.6 million in an auction.
The comic showing Superman leaping over tall buildings on
the cover was sold Thursday night to a buyer who wishes to
maintain a secret identity, according toComicConnect.com,
an online auction and consignment company.
The seller, Mark Michaelson, bought the comic in 1979 from its original
owner and kept it in a temperature-controlled safe.
Michaelson, now semi-retired and living in Houston, paid his way through college by buying and selling comics.
Brace Beemer, center, with The Lone Ranger cast in the WXYZ radio studios.
"The Lone Ranger" was aired on radio for the first time on this day in 1933. The show ran for 2,956 episodes and ended in 1955. The title character was played by George Seaton, Earle Graser, and Brace Beemer. Tonto was played by, among others, John Todd and Roland Parker.
Francis Hamilton "Fran" Striker (August 19, 1903 – September 4, 1962).
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (January 30, 1882 – April 12, 1945) (Last photograph of Roosevelt, taken the day before his death)
Franklin Roosevelt, often referred to by his initials FDR, served as the 32nd president of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945. A member of the Democratic Party, he won a record four presidential elections and became a central figure in world events during the first half of the 20th century.