August 8: Today in Comics History Index

• August 8, 1949: Seriously, you guys, printing newspapers on silver nitrate paper is dangerous (Top 10: The Forty-Niners)
• August 8, 1951: Free — Free / A Trip to Mars / For 900 / Empty Jars / Burma-Shave (Weird Fantasy #14)
• August 8, 1961: The Atlas Monsters all go on unemployment (Marvel #4)
• August 8, 1961: Fantastic! (Fantastic Four #1 and more)
• August 8, 1967: Hippies surround Hippie Beatle ( Marvel Comics Super Special #2)
• August 8, 1985: Yay! It's Christmas! (Klaus and the Crisis in Xmasville #1)
• August 8, 1988: Awoooooooo, Werewolves of Wrigley (Strange Sports Stories #3)
• August 8, 2015: Suddenly Marty's his own grandpa (Back to the Future #4)
  
  
• August 8: Download downloaded and downled (Action Comics Weekly #628)
• August 8: Now the clouds above my prison / Move slowly across the sky / There's a new day dawnin' / And my dreams are full tonight (Batgirl #19)
• August 8: Well, okay: A rabbit hole is a tunnel excavated into the ground by a rabbit to construct a space suitable for habitation... (Young Justice #8)

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Celebrity birthdays:

• August 8, 1961: The Edge

Character birthdays:

• August 8: Angela Maria Lopez