Here’s the latest installment of Maggie Thompson’s ongoing look at important beginnings, middles and ends, this time for June 23-29, 2017...

100 years ago June 25, 1917 Novelist, screenwriter, and columnist William Woolfolk is born. The Golden Age comics writer of characters including Fawcett’s Captain Marvel and Quality’s Blackhawk creates Captain Marvel’s “Holy moley!” catchphrase.

95 years ago June 27, 1922 Golden Age artist and writer Ruben Moreira is born. He co-creates Roy Raymond and (with Jack Miller) Rip Hunter.

70 years ago June 26, 1947 Italian editor and Bonelli writer Alfredo Castelli is born. He founds the first Italian comics fanzine, Comics Club 104, and creates Martin Mystère.

70 years ago June 29, 1947 Norman Maurer marries Joan Howard, daughter of Moe.

65 years ago June 23, 1952 The comic strip Dragnet begins.

55 years ago June 23, 1962 Comic Art co-editors Don Thompson and Maggie Curtis marry.

50 years ago June 24, 1967 Samurai Penguin artist and film model maker Mark Christopher Buck is born.

50 years ago June 27, 1967 ComicBase founder Peter Bickford is born.

10 years ago June 28, 2007 Howie Schneider dies at age 77 of complications from heart-bypass surgery. He was an award-winning cartoonist, editorial cartoonist, children’s book author, and sculptor and writer-artist of Eek & Meek and The Sunshine Club.