July 17: Today in Comics History Index

• July 17-18, 1898: Santiago surrenders control but will not surrender his ridiculous comic accent (Picture Stories from American History #4)
• July 17, 1911: Edwardian society forcibly maroons Captain Picard cosplayer (The Flash #37)
• July 17, 1941: Joe DiMaggio bitten by radioactive spider (Baseball Thrills #3)
• July 17, 1959: Rest in Peace, Billie Holiday (Billie Holiday)
• July 17, 1959: Man's watch debuts on television, DuMont Network orders pilot and 13 episodes of The Watch (Billie Holiday)
• July 17, 2001: S.H.I.E.L.D. agent sees that Jennifer Garner movie; kills Elektra in revenge (Elektra #2)
  
  
• July 17: Ah, remember the good old days when we'd go to a record store to buy music? (Billie Holiday)
• July 17: Law and Order premieres "thunk-thunk" sound effect (Punisher: The Trial of the Punisher #1)
• July 17: Celebrity falls apart when confronted by title of a song by The Who (The Unwritten #37)

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Industry birthdays:

• July 17, 1913: Marc Swayze
• July 17, 1952: Mike Tiefenbacher
• July 17, 1954: J. Michael Straczynski
• July 17: Jadzia Axelrod
• July 17: Jim James