August 14: Today in Comics History Index

• August 14, 1756: Blue Man Group conquers upstate New York (Comic Cavalcade #10)
• August 14, 1893: Excuse me, I have a little dust in my eye (Back to the Future #11)
• August 14, 1938: Dr. Schrödinger gives the best or the worst birthday present (Before Watchmen: Dr. Manhattan #2)
• August 14, 1942: "Dear Elliott. How are you? I am fine." (True Aviation Comics Digest #1)
• August 14, 1945: V.E. Day
  • "Better place" not available in Asia, Africa, Eastern Europe, Central and South America, or American South (DC: Mech #1)
  • Small voice from the East: "I don't like it very much!" (Real Life Comics #29)
  • When Cliff Comes Rocketeering Home (Rocketeer Adventures #1)
  • First mass production of the Rubik's Cube (Son of Hitler)
• August 14, 1949: Oh no! (Top 10: the Forty-Niners)
• August 14, 1951: Either that baseball has shrunk down from 18 feet tall or Willie Mays is now 70 feet tall (The Amazing Willie Mays)
• August 14, 19?6: Newspapers evolve sideburns (Big Town #39)
• August 14, 1962: Ringo thinks big, dreams high (The Beatles in Comics!)
• August 14, 1990: Spectacular Spider-Man #170:
  • 12:38 AM: Pink skies at night, everything's not all right
  • 1:06 AM: Pink Phantom in Avengers Mansion, the team is in expansion
  • 1:36 AM: So judging from this image, a quinjet is about ten automobiles wide?
  • 2:30: Everybody powers up and yells at lot
• August 14, 2003: Harvey Pekar sits in the dark for ten pages; Mark Zingarelli makes the easiest money in comics (American Splendor: Our Movie Year)
• August 14, 2010: And I bring you 🎵 ENERGY 🎵 (Doctor Solar, Man of the Atom/Magnus, Robot Fighter FCBD 2010 one-shot)
  
  
• August 14: Joker steals the second "H" from Daryl Hannah's name (Detective Comics #546)
• August 14: Young Justice #9-10:
  • 12:32 AM: Obviously Ms. Martian has never seen M*A*S*H Goes to Vietnam
  • 12:38 AM: Young Justice battles Ginsu Knife
  • 1:06 AM: Higgins is worried about these strange visitors to the King Kamehameha Club
  • 1:45 AM: Those darn kids with the pierced I-dunno-what, the roller-skates and the 23 Skidoos and the listening to the Becks...
  • 3:18 AM: And Robin said bottle rockets weren't big enough to do the job
  • 5:26 AM: Even Young Justice thinks these time references have gone on long enough this morning
  • 11:57 AM: ...The Armageddon 2001 crossover, that is
  • 3:16 PM: Brunch transitions easily into Booze

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Industry birthdays:

• August 14, 1961: Jimmy Palmiotti

Celebrity birthdays:

• August 14, 1917: Cardew Robinson
• August 14, 1945: Steve Martin

Character birthdays:

• August 14, 1919: Catherine Prosper