August 27: Today in Comics History Index

• August 27, 1776: No, wait, you still can't look at the picture yet (Picture Stories from American History #2)
• August 27, 1910: The message was "Guess where I'm texting you from?" (All-American Comics #22)
• August 27, 1917: Sure, they were great in WWI, but in WWII that one guy spent the whole war yakkin' on the telephone (Our Fighting Forces #90)
• August 27, 1965: A Grand Day Out (The Beatles in Comics!)
• August 27, 1966: Sean Connery warned Doc Savage Jr. to wear his earmuffs (Doc Savage #2)
  
  
• August 27: Sometimes flickering sometimes bright / Sometimes burning up the night / Hair today and gone tomorrow (Adventure Comics #271 and others)
• August 27: It is not Scott Pilgrim's birthday (#1 of 364 in a series) (Scott Pilgrim Gets It Together)
• August 27: Young Justice #12-13:
  • 12:00 AM: All right, Batman! (#12)
  • 4:49 AM: Believe it or not, these identical minutes appear in the same issue (#12)
  • 4:50 AM: I'm sure nothing happens in the very sixty seconds OH COME ON NOW YOUNG JUSTICE (#13)
  • 5:38 AM: Apparently everyone in the DC Universe needs a shower (#13)
  • 5:40 AM: Bruce does not actually have a plan (#13)
  • 6:07 AM: Superboy still hasn't gotten the hang of playing hide and seek (#13)
  • 6:10 AM: Four out of five Martian dentists recommend (#13)
  • 6:13 AM: What are the odds? They both knew his middle name! (#13)
  • 6:16 AM: Aqualad fails his perception roll (#13)
  • 7:59 AM: Batman sugarcoats it, as usual (#13)
  • 10:54 AM: Orange is the new bat (#13)
  • 11:33 AM: Ponytail billows dramatically in rooftop breeze (#13)

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Industry birthdays:

• August 27, 1922: Kelly Freas
• August 27, 1929: Don Perlin
• August 27, 1947: Ilya Salkind
• August 27, 1957: Richard Kadrey

Celebrity birthdays and deaths:

• August 27, 1967: Death of Brian Epstein