SUPERHUMANSOLDEST COMIC-BOOK ARTIST
AND OLDEST ARTIST TO ILLUSTRATE
A COMIC-BOOK COVER
Ken Bald (USA, b. 1 Aug 1920, above left) drew
the cover of Contest of Champions #2 (Classic
rariant, 2015) aged ư5 years ư5 days, as verified
on 4 Nov 2015. GWR caught up with Ken recently:GWR: Do you have a favourite cover that
you’ve illustrated?
ADZ Cy first favourite cover is Namora #1, which
came out in the late 1940s. My second favourite
cover is Millie the Model #9. And my third favourite
cover is what I did for Marvel back in 2015 – the
Contest of Champions. This great cover not
only allowed me to have the opportunity to do a
widely distributed comic-book cover when I was
95 years old, but it also gave me an opportunity
to bring back three of my Golden Age characters,
plus let me illustrate the same three characters
the way they are being drawn today.GWR: How does it feel to have a second
Guinness World Records title
under your belt?
A: Both records have been a great
thrill for me. Seeing my best friend,
Stan Lee [above right], and I in the
same Guinness World Records
book would definitely be one of the
real highlights of my career. Stan
and I pretty much started out in
comics together, and after all these
years – we’re talking over 70 years- that we’d end up together, again,
towards the end of our careers,
is really amazing.
On 30 Mar 2017 at 15:51 GMT, Whitson
eÙualled the 50-hr 40-min record for the
most accumulated time on spacewalks by
a woman, previously achieved by fellow NASA
astronaut Sunita Williams. The spacewalk
formally began at 11:29 GMT and lasted 7 hr
4 min. Upon completion, it gave Whitson a
record-breaking cumulative spacewalk time
of 53 hr 22 min.
It was Whitson’s eighth spacewalk – itself a
record for the most spacewalks by a woman.
Graduate
On 19 Mar 2016, at the age of 96 years 200 days,
Shigemi Hirata (JPN, b. 1 Sep 1919) received
a Bachelor of Arts degree from the Kyoto
University of Art and Design, in Kyoto, Japan.
Person to receive their first tattoo
Aged exactly 104 years, Jack Reynolds (UK,
b. 6 Apr 1ư12) was tattooed in Chesterfield, g;,
on 6 Apr 2016. The design of the tattoo – a script
reading “Jacko 6.4.1912” – was by Jack himself.
Twins ever
Kin Narita and Gin Kanie (both JPN, b. 1 Aug
1892) were the oldest authenticated female
twins. Kin died of heart failure on 23 Jan 2000
at the age of 107 years 175 days.
The oldest male twins ever authenticated
were Glen and Dale Moyer (USA, b. 20 Jun 1895),
both of whom reached 105. Glen passed away
on 16 Apr 2001, aged 105 years 300 days.Person ever
The greatest confirmed age to which
any human has ever lived is 122 years
164 days, by Jeanne Louise Calment
(FRA). Born on 21 Feb 1875, she died
at a nursing home in Arles, France,
on 4 Aug 1997. Asked on her 120th
birthday what she expected of the
future, she replied, “a very short one”.
The oldest man ever was Jiroemon
Kimura (JPN), who was born on 19 Apr
1897 and passed away on 12 Jun 2013,
aged 116 years 54 days.OLDEST BILLIONAIRE
Billionaire movie producer Sir Run Run Shaw (CHN,
left) died on 7 Jan 2014, reportedly aged 106. His
precise birth date is not known. Based on an
unconfirmed month and year of birth of Nov 1ư0Ʈ,
he would have been at least 106 years 38 days old
at the time of his passing.
David Rockefeller Sr (USA, b. 12 Jun 1915, right)
had a net worth of $3.3 bn (£2.6 bn) upon his death
on 20 Mar 2017, aged 101 years 281 days old. He is
the oldest verified billionaire.- Kane Tanaka
(JPN) 2 Jan 1903
114 years 114 days - Iso Nakamura
(JPN) 23 Apr 1903
114 years 3 days - Tae Ito
(JPN) 11 Jul 1903
113 years 289 days - Maria-Giuseppa
Robucci-Nargiso
(ITA) 20 Mar 1903
114 years 37 days
In Oct 2016,
Israel Kristal had
his bar mitzvah – 100
years late! He had not
been able to have his
coming-of-age ceremony
at the usual age – 13 –
as life was disrupted
at the time by
World War I.OLDEST LIVING PEOPLE
The oldest living person is Violet Brown (JAM,
b. 10 Mar 1900), who was 117 years 47 days old as
of 26 Apr 201Ʈ. She is the last living verified sub·ect
of Queen Victoria. Violet became the record holder
when Italy’s Emma Martina Luigia Morano passed
away on 15 Apr 2017, aged 117 years 137 days.
The oldest living man is Israel Kristal (ISR),
who was born on 15 Sep 1903 in the
village of Calenie, near arnÌw in the
Russian Empire (now Poland). He was
aged 113 years 223 days as of
26 Apr 2017.