August 6: Today in Comics History Index

• August 6, 1919: Bela Lugosi vows vengeance after vampire hunters drop a country-sized Soviet icon on him (Lugosi: The Rise and Fall of Hollywood's Dracula)
• August 6, 1945: So what d'you s'pose a story titled "The Sound of the Atom Splitting" by Grant Morrison is gonna be about...oh. (The Invisibles #7)
• August 6, 1951: Newspaper hits porch so hard it's seeing stars (Big Town #11)
• August 6, 1959: So this is the guy who thought he was going to get married to Miley Cyrus?!? (Ghosts #94)
  
  
• August 6: Second-person-voiced comic panel totally has my resumé all wrong ( Gang Busters #48)

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Industry birthdays:

• August 6, 1951: Ed Hannigan

Celebrity birthdays:

• August 6, 1809: Alfred, Lord Tennyson
• August 6, 1904: Henry Iba
• August 6, 1928: Andy Warhol

Character birthdays:

• August 6: J. Jonah Jameson