August 12: Today in Comics History Index

• August 12, 1400: Flying horse avoids mid-air collision with giant calendar page during time journey (Adventure Comics #145)
• August 12, 1779: Milton Bradley's first attempt at a life-size version of Battleship proves costly and deadly (Semper Fi #8)
• August 12, 1897: Invention of the ironic use of the word "safe" (Bram Stoker's Dracula #3)
• August 12, 1922: Letters to throw away instantly, Exhibit "A" (Providence #11)
• August 12, 1944: Trooper advances through mans (Our Army at War #73)
• August 12, 1951: Batter finds it hard to miss 18-foot tall baseball (Baseball Thrills #3)
• August 12, 1966: We now pause this blog for a smoke break (The 'Nam #8)
• August 12, 1970: Nothing supernatural about this one, folks; he just burned down the house (Ghosts #89)
• August 12, 1978: Origin of the very first Coward of the County (Spider-Woman #8)
• August 12, 1989: "Over New York? No. I don't think I'll ever get over New York." (Jenny Sparks: The Secret History of the Authority #2)
• August 12, 2007: Are Brie Larson and Brendan Fraser an item? (Ms. Marvel #18)
• August 12, 2010: But that trick never works (Doctor Solar, Man of the Atom #5)
• August 12, 2010: Why don't you kiss her instead of talking her to death? (Doctor Solar, Man of the Atom #7)
  
  
• August 12: Calendar Man incurs the wrath of the Penguin (Batman: Arkham Unleashed #53)
• August 12: Mummy Come Home (Captain America Comics #20)
• August 12: Well, that'll happen (Fearless Dawn #3)
• August 12: A cautionary tale, but obviously only applicable in the 1950s, not now (Weird Fantasy #13)

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Celebrity birthdays (and my pals!):

• August 12, 1910: Jane Wyatt
• August 12: Chris Sims (and here, too!)