July 18: Today in Comics History Index

• July 18, 1744: Burial spot of treasure marked with X proportionately fifty miles long (Detective Comics #215)
• July 18, 1876: The End, that is, for this dumb jerk (Crime Must Pay the Penalty #7)
• July 18, 1921: Just another ordinary corpse-buryin' day for Professor Hardin (Young All-Stars #10)
• July 18, 1950: We now return to Shaft in Korea, already in progress (The 'Nam #45)
• July 18, 1997: Whoops, sorry 'bout that, William Rouse (Warrior #10 and V for Vendetta #3)
• July 18, 1998: She's coming to get you, Barbra (The Invisibles #17)
  
  
• July 18: Sunfire needs a datebook (Avengers West Coast #71)
• July 18: Manhattan Criminal Courtroom 3 is ankle-deep in drool (Punisher: The Trial of the Punisher #1)

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Industry birthdays:

• July 18: Jean Thomas

Celebrity birthdays:

• July 18, 1921: John Glenn
• July 18, 1929: Screamin' Jay Hawkins
• July 18, 1939: Dion

Character birthdays and deaths:

• July 18, 1997: Death of William Rouse