August 15: Today in Comics History Index

• August 15, 1804: America's Got Talent is invented (Manifest Destiny #13)
• August 15, 1812: No, guy, Black Sabbath warned you there'd be problems. And you can't understand a word Ozzy says! (Real Life Comics #8)
• August 15, 1894: Kylie Minogue helps Lucien get some (The Dreaming #41)
• August 15, 1899: "...Also, anti-Semitism." (True Comics #65)
• August 15, 1933: Map company outsources to abstract artist (Image! 30th Anniversary Anthology #6)
• August 15, 1935: Will Rogers never met a man he didn't like, except, possibly, the President of South America (Real Fact Comics #14)
• August 15, 1939: Everybody rushes to see Hollywood's favorite star of 1939: Rin Tin Tin (Rocketeer Adventures #2)
• August 15, 1958: Sam Beckett buys cheap beer with his new fake ID (Quantum Leap #4)
• August 15, 1962: Peter Parker goes back in time to score copies of Amazing Fantasy #15 (Spidey Sunday Spectacular! #1 and The Amazing Spider-Man & Silk: Spider(Fly) Effect Infinite Comic #2)
• August 15, 1965: The Beatles are paid $160,000 to let 55,000 teenagers scream at them for half an hour (Marvel Comics Super Special #4 and others)
• August 15, 1968: This is the nicest posting to the 'Nam I've ever seen (Semper Fi #2)
• August 15, 1972: They'll both be missed, in their own small way (Marvel Feature #6)
• August 15, 1982: Broadcast of America's greatest TV show ever (Flaming Carrot Comics #26)
• August 15, 2003: Harvey Pekar sits around and mopes for once (American Splendor: Our Movie Year)
• August 15, 2010: A police report not involving touching fentanyl? That is unusual! (Doctor Solar, Man of the Atom/Magnus, Robot Fighter FCBD 2010 one-shot)
• August 15, 2042: Rip Hunter begins to regret not carrying a paper and pencil (Time Warp #1)
  
  
• August 15: Clayface spends some quality time with his new girlfriends (Heartthrobs #3)
• August 15: Dick Grayson falls to his death (Nightwing #12)
• August 15: Everybody thinks it's funny to not tell Matt Murdock that he's walked into the completely wrong courtroom (Punisher: The Trial of the Punisher #2)
• August 15: Everybody wants to kill Peter Parker, but nobody ever does anything about it (Spectacular Spider-Man #149)
• August 15: Happy India Independence Day! (White Tigress: On the Great Helmsman's Secret Service)
• August 15: Pentagon bathed in eerie shade of blue (Young Justice #10)

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Character birthdays and deaths:

• August 15, 1999: Death of Jorge Sans
• August 15: Chlorophyll Kid
• August 15: Kingpin