July 12: Today in Comics History Index

• July 12, 1690: Garth Ennis creates new gay rights anthem using time travel (Dicks: To the End of Time, Like #2)
• July 12, 1885: Flatt and Scruggs song inelegantly shoved into Western comics (Two-Gun Kid: Sunset Riders #2)
• July 12, 1911: History Channel documentary specifically designed to torment that one guy (Adventures into the Unknown #132)
• July 12, 1936: Jimmy Carter and Manuel Noriega become time travelers, apparently (Doc Savage Annual #1)
• July 12, 1944: When you comin' home, son? / I don't know when, but we'll get together then, Dad (It Really Happened #7)
• July 12, 1947: Time keeps on slippin', slippin', slippin' Into the future (Fantastic Four #1/694)
• July 12, 1949: Kodak finally develops photography in black and white at the same time (Don Newcombe one-shot)
• July 12, 1949: Comics assert that radio is your best entertainment value (Jackie Robinson #1)
• July 12, 1956: Newspaper hires Jack Kirby as layout designer, wins Pulitzer Prize for Awesomeness (Yellow Claw #3)
• July 12, 1984: Tesla Tararova writes My Little Pony fan fiction (Winter Soldier #18)
• July 12, 1985: Today in Crisis History: Thank Zod it's Friday (Crisis on Infinite Earths #2)
• July 12, 1993: Coroner pops the hood on Patel to troubleshoot his transmission (Warrior #11 and V for Vendetta #3)
• July 12, 2004: Luthor is pleased the heat is off him for stealing those 40 cakes (Lex Luthor: Man of Steel #3)
• July 12, 2017: They lost on Final Jeopardy (The Vision #2 Director's Cut)
• July 12, 3797: Axle and wheel technology has improved by lightyears (Trillium #1)
  
  
• July 12: Lex gets a big delight in every bite of Hostess Moon Pies (Action Comics Special #1)
• July 12: The Brave and the Bold #100:
  • 1:00 PM: Robin fails Feminism 101
  • 5:00 PM: The Collapse of Batman
• July 12: In Russia, atoms split scientists (Weird Fantasy #16)

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Industry birthdays:

• July 12, 1970: Phil Jimenez

Celebrity birthdays:

• July 12, 44 BCE: Julius Caesar
• July 12, 1882?: Louis B. Mayer
• July 12, 1895: Buckminster Fuller
• July 12, 1908: Milton Berle
• July 12, 1943: Christine McVie