August 4: Today in Comics History Index

• August 4, 1911: Incels and comicsgaters immediately write a million hate rants (Wonder Woman #46)
• August 4, 1914: Norman Whitfield and Barrett Strong have a really rough start writing the song "War" (Real Life Comics #5)
• August 4, 1914: Great Britain vows with all its might to protect those delicious waffles (Tolkien: Lighting Up the Darkness)
• August 4, 1941: Captain America battles his most lethal enemy: Lorem Ipsum (The Adventures of Captain America #2)
• August 4, 1941: He is the very model of a wartime Major General (Real Life Comics #29)
• August 4, 1952: Plan Eight from Outer Space is unsuccessful (Weird Science-Fantasy #26)
• August 4, 1959: Gus Kahn has a really rough start writing the lyrcs to "It Had to Be You" (Jupiter's Circle #1)
• August 4, 1964: Spy Hunter needs to get this truck filled with Captain Atoms from Texarkana to Atlanta in 28 hours (Spy Hunter & Paper Boy #2)
• August 4, 1986: John Fogerty has a really rough start writing the song "Fortunate Son"...oh, geez, that's enough of this joke. (D.P.7 #26)
• August 4, 1988: Bucky Barnes totally misses the new Fall season of Must-See-TV (Captain America #11)
• August 4, 2026: Good to know that even after the apocalypse four years from now, our Alexas still work (Weird Fantasy #17)
  
  
• August 4: Two-Face screws up another knock-knock joke (Batman: Dark Victory #12)
• August 4: Back in the fifties, paneling the living room was more complicated than you think (Crime SuspenStories #18)
• August 4: U-boat commander continues to solve every problem by shooting it in the face (Weird war Tales #1)

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Industry birthdays:

• August 4, 1950: Mike Gold
• August 4, 1954: Martin Pasko
• August 4, 1966: Charlie Adlard
• August 4, 1966: Alan Martin

Celebrity birthdays:

• August 4, 1901: Louis Armstrong

Character birthdays and deaths:

• August 4: Mr. Featherstone
• August 4: Death of Jasper Wentworth’s aunt