July 14: Today in Comics History Index

• July 14, 1789: Bastille Day:
  • July 14, 1789: Now that's how you do a revolution (Real Fact Comics #11)
  • July 14, 1941: Cheese-Eating Resistance Guerillas ( V...- Comics #1)
    
    
  • July 14: Arkham Asylum's cafeteria mistakenly serves French toast to Calendar Man (Batman: Arkham Unhinged #44)
  • July 14: Il n'y a pas d'espoir dans Ruelle du Crime (Detective Comics Annual #2)
    
    
  • Bastille Day Special: 366 jours avec Alfred Pennyworth, spécial pour le 14 juillet: Jour cent quatre-vingt-seize ( Batman Poche #44)
  • Bastille Day Special: 'Appy...'ow you zay?...Bastille Day! (Captain America #303)
  • Bastille Day Special: Dizaines d'une sorte No. 57, spécial pour le 14 juillet: Ten Lords A-Leaping (Ten of a Kind: Batroc covers)
  • Bastille Day Special: But every day is Italian-American Day, right, Gina? (Dennis the Menace Bonus Magazine Series #151)
  • Bastille Day Special: Bastille Day Special: Dizaines d'une sorte No. 167, spécial pour le 14 juillet: Might as well leap! (Ten of a Kind: Eiffel Tower covers)
  • Bastille Day Special: Dizaines d'une sorte No. 223, spécial pour le 14 juillet: Ten French comics and not one Jerry Lewis (Ten of a Kind: French comics covers)
  • Bastille Day Special: That fatal kiss is all we need (A View to a Kill )
  • Bastille Day Special: A Wodehouse a Week #55: French Leave
  • Bastille Day Special: 365 Jours Avec Henri McCoy, spécial pour le 14 juillet: jour nombre 195 (X-Men: Endangered Species)
• July 14, 1933: Popeye pops up (Comic Book History of Animation #2)
• July 14, 1982: Batman Annual #8:
  • 5:35 AM: Ominous caption box looms over Shinn Corners
  • 5:36 AM: Let's hope they missed the bulls and cows
  • 8:15 AM: Batman takes tarp off Batplane so it can fly south for the winter
  • 10:00 AM: Trevor von Eeden misplaces his T-square
  • 11:00 AM: Batman preps for his one-man stage show "Bruce Wayne, Bruce Wayne, Bruce Wayne"
  • 1:25 PM: US Army enforces bath night
  • 2:00 PM: Bizarre page layout hampers my attempt to do only one post per minute
  • 2:10 PM: Mayor McCheese is implicated
  • 2:10 PM: Hmm, I wonder if that missing piece from the bottom right will have any significance later on?
  • 2:15 PM: Oh, stop it with the Red Hood reveals, Jason
  • 2:16 PM: Him!
  • 2:17 PM: Getting Robin and keeping him are not quite the same thing
  • 2:20 PM: Gggk
  • 2:22 PM: Batman fails his SAT twice; Thomas Wayne regrets wasting money on all those tutors
  • 2:30 PM: "No. Not plan D. Plan 4. 'Plan D' implies I only have 26."
• July 14, 1898: Marines hunt down a dolphin in the middle of the woods...?...look, I don't write these, I just read 'em (Real Life Comics #56)
• July 14, 1900: Firefighters prioritize saving gambling and whiskey (Bat Masterson #4)
• July 14, 2014: It's always Spider-Man Day, it's never Spider-Girl Day (The Amazing Spider-Man: Who Am I? #1)
  
  
• July 14: Bat-Family game night finally ends; Bruce wins "Operation" (The Brave and the Bold #100)
• July 14: Batman seems really eager to move on from having missed something (Legends of the Dark Knight #5)
• July 14: First recorded match of tennis played with a baseball (Young Lovers #14)

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Industry birthdays:

• July 14, 1927: Mike Esposito
• July 14, 1969: Colleen Coover