July 2: Today in Comics History Index

• July 2, 1881: Lovable lasagna-eating cat is assassinated (Picture Stories from American History #4)
• July 2, 1937: Amelia Earhart disappears:
  • Amelia Earhart successfully circumnavigates the Universal Studios logo (It Really Happened #5)
  • It's years since you've been there / Now you've disappeared somewhere / Like outer space / You've found some better place (Ripley's Believe It or Not! #1)
  • Amelia Earhart leaves aviation job for a lucrative new career in speculative history (Time Lincoln: Apocalypse Mao)
• July 2, 1947: Well, that'll happen (The Invisibles #4 and 18)
• July 2, 1950: Can you dig it? (Vault of Horror #15)
• July 2, 1978: Spider-Woman #7:
  • 2:30 PM: Dr. Strange, Spider-Woman, and Santa Claus visit the zoo
  • 4:08 PM: Stark International develops up-to-the-minute computers that run on punchcards
  • 8:15 PM: Criminal boss pounds table, spills water, seals his inevitable doom
• July 2, 1983: This is either the beginning of the "Physical" video or a late night Cinemax movie (Hot Valley Days and Cocaine Nights #2)
• July 2, 2025: DC promises us cool comics...in, uh, three years or so (Doomsday Clock #12)
  
  
• July 2: The Pork Knight Returns (Action Comics Weekly #612)

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Celebrity birthdays:

• July 2, 1877: Hermann Hesse
• July 2, 1941: Chris Noel

Character birthdays:

• July 2: Joe Hallen