August 11: Today in Comics History Index

• August 11, 1870 and 1911: Ripley's Believe It or Not! presents...a coincidence. Nothin' more. (Ripley's Believe It Or Not #11)
• August 11, 1907: Audiences mock the arrival of the new writer for the X-Men (Real Life Comics #4)
• August 11, 1925: H.P. Lovecraft gives the first negative TripAdvisor review (Providence #11)
• August 11, 1941: Comic adaptation of "I Carpooled with a Mad Bomber" (The Vain #1)
• August 11, 1945: Hack Dawes/Thor Team-Up #1 is published (Batman #72)
• August 11, 1973: Walkman remains not yet invented, Peter Quill's mom dies anyway (Marvel Preview #4)
• August 11, 1980: "I never thought it was such a bad little tree. It's not bad at all, really. Maybe it just needs a little love." (Secrets of Haunted House #43)
• August 11, 1984: John DeLorean, in dutch to the mob for five large, breathes a sigh of relief (Back to the Future #2)
• August 11, 1999: The Invisibles, volume 3:
  • Chris Cornell and Kim Thayil work out the lyrics to their next hit (#10)
  • Please don't hand me that knife (#10)
  • Mind you, I didn't like their second album (#10)
  • 🎶Are you ready for the summer 🎶 (#5)
  • King Mob lists all the regrettable Invisibles spin-off comics (#4)
  • 🎶 Somebody's gettin' married 🎶 (#4)
  • The following is a party political broadcast on behalf of the Conservative Party (#3)
  • "I am Boris Johnson and I endorse the message in this panel." (#3)
  • 11:08 PM: Well, there's something you don't see every day, Chauncey (#3)
  • 11:09 PM: I love it when a plan comes together (#3)
  • 11:11 PM: Round 'bout about then those Invisibles boys were in a mess o' trouble (#3)
  • 11:11 PM: Turn off your mind relax and float down stream / It is not dying / It is not dying (#2)
  • 11:59 PM: Well. That certainly was a how-do-ye-do, wasn't it? Now for some champers and a bacon sarny (#2)
• August 11, 2040: Gog travels to the year 2040; is still a terrible character (The Kingdom #1)
  
  
• August 11: Yankee Candle Company posts a record profit (Heartthrobs #3)
• August 11: Peg Bundy gets really violent with her Page-a-Day calendar (Picture Romance Library #313)

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Industry birthdays:

• August 11, 1897: Enid Blyton
• August 11, 1922: Lyle Stuart
• August 11, 1962: Brian Azzarello
• August 11, 1964: Pat Brosseau
• August 11, 1964: Jim Lee
• August 11, 1982 (?): Joe Quiñones

Celebrity birthdays:

• August 11, 1808: John Wise
• August 11, 1983: Chris Hemsworth

Character birthdays and deaths:

• August 11, 1911: Death of Marie Giscard
• August 11, 1912: Paul LeCourt
• August 11, 1973: Death of Meredith Quill
• August 11: Giselle Rodriguez