July 26: Today in Comics History Index

• July 26, 1779: Marines arrive really early on Omaha Beach, just to be sure (Semper Fi #6)
• July 26, 1909: Tales of the Perfectly Explainable Coincidences (Tales of the Unexpected #96)
• July 26, 1918: J.R.R. Tolkien eagerly awaits for his order of bologna to arrive (Tolkien: Lighting Up the Darkness)
• July 26, 1941: I suppose he said "I shall return" or some such cliché like that (General Douglas MacArthur)
• July 26, 1943: Moving from Bedrock to Manhattan proves profitable for financier (Hit Comics #30)
• July 26, 1944: It's Raining Men (Fables: Werewolves of the Heartland)
• July 26, 1968: That man is outstanding in his field (Semper Fi #2)
• July 26, 1976: Reed Richards can read newspapers and tell the date (Fantastic Four #176)
• July 26, 1985: Mystère de Grand Saint Anne (Traditional); Swamp Thing refuses to go skinny dipping (Swamp Thing #41)
  
  
• July 26: Earth is embarrassed to go to the prom after it gets a big pimple (Children of the Vault #1)
• July 26: Archie writes the word "sugar" 75,000 times (Riverdale One-Shot)
• July 26: The day before Daniel is trained to ask "Would you like fries with that?" ( The Unwritten #35.5)
• July 26: The killer plants slowly strangle Betty while Bert pushes her into their clutches (Young Lovers #17)

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Industry birthdays:

• July 26, 1962: Harry Candelario

Celebrity birthdays:

• July 26, 1945: Helen Mirren
• July 26, 1964: Sandra Bullock

Character birthdays:

• July 26: The Penguin