July 15: Today in Comics History Index

• July 15, 1588: They failed miserably, proving no one should promote a duck to the admiralty (Real Life Comics #2)
• July 15, 1868: For an EC text story, I expected more ghosts (MD #1)
• July 15, 1918: Shouldn't you have the guy with the bayonet in the front of the charge? (Battlefield Action #21)
• July 15, 1942: John Byrne subtlely plugs his new crossover (Speed Force and Wonder Woman #130)
• July 15, 1950: We now return to Mike Sterling's "THEN...KOREA," already in progress (The 'Nam #45)
• July 15, 1958: Rest in Peace, Julia Lennon (Beatles with an A)
• July 15, 1978: Justice League of America are destroyed; never appear again (Justice League of America #159)
• July 15, 1982: Batman Annual #8:
  • 1:00 AM: Batman dallies
  • 2:30 AM: BATMAAAAAAANNNNN INNNNNNNNNN SPAAAAAAAAAAAAAACE!
  • 2:45 AM: Talia dumps old boyfriend
  • 4:00 AM: Just another ordinary day in Gotham City
  • 4:07 AM: General Carter wonders if his hat makes him look like a cool pirate
  • 4:30 AM: Origin of the phrase "I'll be in my bunk"
  • 4:35 AM: Robin assures Talia that they'll find her labradoodle
  • 4:40 AM: You can go out to the lobby and get popcorn now, folks, the next hour is pretty much just Batman and Rā's al Ghūl punchin' each other
  • 5:35 AM: Hey Talia, what's your favorite Stevie Nicks song?
  • 5:37 AM: From here on in it's just pretty much just the end of Moonraker
  • End: It doesn't actually have a time attached to it, but we've invested so much in this story, I just wanted to let you know Batman and Robin are A-OK
• July 15, 1992: Random tech words slung together in a letter on a comic book's intro page don't really have to make any sense at all because I'm betting no one has ever read them (Digitek #2)
• July 15, 2023: Do you want Identity Crisis? Because that's how you get Identity Crisis. (Weird Fantasy #13)
  
  
• July 15: Louise is clearly not marrying Rob for his brains (Breakfast After Noon #1)
• July 15: St. Swithin's Day: If the Prime minister is a jerk on St. Swithin's Day, he'll be a jerk for forty succeeding days (and probably more) (Real Fact Comics #19)
• July 15: Rest in Peace, John and Mary Grayson...hey, wait a minute! (Super DC Calendar 1976)

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Industry birthdays:

• July 15, 1927: Jack Abel
• July 15, 1970: Kelly Sue DeConnick
• July 15: Johnny Greene

Character birthdays and events:

• July 15: Deaths of John and Mary Grayson (Pre-Crisis?)