I'm doing research for my volume three of Comic Book Trivia Facts and was wondering if you know of any websites that list the actual Birthday's of Superheroes? .
DC Comics 1976 Calendar does llst many, but Mavel Heroes are not to be found anywhere, except Captain America (July 4th). Any ideas?
I actually contacted Marvel.com with no resonse back, so I'm kind of at a crossroads.
Any help would be appreciated!!
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Hi, Joseph, welcome aboard! After you posted about this, I went looking, but I didn't find much except this FB page that has a few, but more DC ones. Marvel never seemed quite as determined to designate those as DC did (and neither did much to celebrate birthdays in any event).
And, as always with web "facts," there's no annotations for where the dates come from, so who knows how authoritative the information is? I hate places that don't annotate.
Of course, those DC ones you've found no doubt relate to Earth-1 heroes, when DC was bigger on giving each hero an identifiable birthday and had its calendar. By now, six+ reboots later, it's hard to say if those guys were still born on those days.
Good luck!
-- MSA
The Facebook page that Mr Silver Age mentions shows Superman's birthday as February 28th. I may be wrong, but I seem to remember that the date given by Mort Weisinger in a letter column somewhere was February 29th. This lead to the joke that Superman had managed to remain so young-looking after many decades by having only one birthday every four years.
Yes, February 29th was the date--it was easy to remember as a result. We talked about it in 2017 here. And Superman has probably celebrated his birthday more often than any other character, if only because he's had so many stories in so many titles and is a fairly sociable guy.
It's possible the FB list thought it was a typo, not realizing that there occasionally is a Feb. 29th. That's why I like to get annotations for these "facts."
I would imagine most birthdays selected have some connection to the writer or some other historical fact for the character rather than being random.
-- MSA
Thanks to you both for replying!
I did indeed find Clark Kent/Superman's Birthday listed as Feb. 28th...and also Billy Batson/Captain Marvel/Shazam as Feb. 29th!
Just to keep you in the Superhero flow, tomorrow, Feb. 9th,
is Rex Mason'/Metamorpho's Birthday (per the DC source)!!
a Metamorpho.jpg
For all your help, Here's what I put in my Volume Two: The only one's a can't 100% prove, naturally, would be the Marvel Characters. The one's I listed were shown on some Fan blog's or websites. Marvel has confirmed that Peter Parker/Spider-Man is a Virgo, but nothing concrete. and I swear I read somewhere that Nick Fury's Birthday was Jan. 19th!! At any rate, for your fun and perusal, enjoy! I also seem to think that Reed Richards/Mr. Fantastic Bithrday is in May...Have a great weekend! Joseph
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!
Here are the Birthdays of your favorite Characters! Many of these were found, believe it or not, in the DC Comics 1976 Calendar. Marvel is not so forthcoming…I looked in a dozen places and had trouble finding any of their Heroes Birthdays besides the few listed here!
JANUARY
3 - Jim Corrigan - The Spectre
5 - Police Commissioner James Gordon
13 – Gorilla Grodd
16 – Wally West - The Flash
17 – Kent Nelson – Doctor Fate
19 – Nick Fury – Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D.
29 – Arthur Curry – Aquaman
31 – Mera – Aquaman’s Queen
FEBRUARY
9 – Rex Mason – Metamorpho
19 – Bruce Wayne – Batman (also listed as April 7th)
20 – Hal Jordan – Earth’s Green Lantern
28 – Clark Kent – Superman
29 – Billy Batson – Shazam
MARCH
12 – Perry White – Superman’s Editor
14 - Selina Kyle – Catwoman
19 – Barry Allen – The Flash
20 – Dick Grayson – Nightwing
21 – Ralph Dibney – Elongated Man
22 – Diana Prince – Wonder Woman
27 – Lar Grand – Mon-El
30 – Carter Hall (Katar Hol) – Hawkman
APRIL
3 – Jay Garrick – Golden Age Flash
10 – Dinah Lance – Black Canary
11 - Linda Danvers – Supergirl (also listed as May 18th)
24 – J’ohnn J’ohnzz – Martian Manhunter
26 – Donna Troy – Wonder Girl
MAY
7 – Freddie Freeman – Shazam junior
8 – Jack Ryder – The Creeper
20 – Zatanna – Magician
JUNE
9 – Captain Johnny Cloud – The Losers
19 – Shayera Hall – Hawkgirl
26 – Kirk Langstrom – Man-Bat
JULY
4 – Uncle Sam – Freedom Fighters
4 – Steve Rogers – Captain America
9 – Ray Palmer – The Atom
26 – Oswald Cobblepot – The Penguin
31 – Frank Rock – Sgt. Rock of Easy Company
AUGUST
10 – Boston Brand – Deadman
16 – Jason Todd – Deceased Robin
17 – Lois Lane – Superman’s Wife
29 – Eel O’Brian – Plastic Man
SEPTEMBER
7 - Helena Wayne – The Huntress
12 – Ted Grant – Wildcat
23 – Barbara Gordon – Batgirl/Oracle
28 – Lex Luthor – Archenemy Supreme
OCTOBER
2 – Alan Scott – Golden Age Green Lantern
8 – Peter Parker – Spider-Man
17 – John Stewart – Green Lantern
28 – Janos Prohaska – Blackhawk
NOVEMBER
1 – Roy Harper – Speedy/Arsenal
11 – Stephen Strange – Doctor Strange
16 – Doctor Jonathan Crane – The Scarecrow
19 – Franklin Richards – Fantastic Four
21 – Kamandi – Last Boy on Earth
25 – Storm – X-Men
29 - James Bartholomew Olsen – Superman’s Pal
DECEMBER
3 – Adam Strange – Adam Strange
7 – Harvey Dent – Two-Face
9 – Oliver Queen – Green Arrow
23 – Bulldozer – Easy Company
If Peter Parker is a Virgo, that means his birthday isn't October 8, unfortunately. I say unfortunately because it's my birthday...and I'm a Libra! Virgo runs from August 23 – September 23.
Very good point, which I missed!
Rob Staeger (Grodd Mod) said:
Peter Wrexham said:
I recall reading on the Super DC 1976 Calendar that Superman's birthday is Feb. 29, but Clark Kent's birthday is June 18, the anniversary of the day Kal-El landed on Earth. That's pre-Crisis, because post-Crisis --
-- Jonathan and Martha Kent found the babe in November, just before a massive snowstorm hit and kept them stranded on the farm for five months. When they were able to get out, they passed off baby Kal-El as their natural-born son.
Hi, Joseph!
I don't know if you've come across this site: The Five Earths Project. It lists the dates from the Super DC 1976 Calendar and adds whatever post-Crisis --
-- dates could be found. It also notes discrepancies, like two different birthdays for Bruce Wayne (so one is ascribed to Earth-1 and the other to Earth-2, naturally).
I ran across this site: Exclusive Infographics: Fictional Character Birthday Calendars. It has birthdays for various characters from comics, TV shows, sitcoms, movies, kid shows on PBS, novels, comic strips, genre fiction and soap operas. It is not annotated, so who knows where the information on these pages comes from.
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