July 9: Today in Comics History Index

• July 9, 1850: President beheaded by two American flags (True Comics #79)
• July 9, 1878: Bad Job Markets of the Olllllllld West (Outlaws of the West #81)
• July 9, 1922: A Balm in Gilead (Vault of Horror #15)
• July 9, 1936: It's a mistake to buy a used jacket from Dick Tracy (Crime Cases Comics #27)
• July 9, 1982: Through the Night with Miracleman (Miracleman #3)
  • 2:39 AM: Harrods opens its annual Two-for-One Skeleton Sale
  • 3:10 AM: The invention of the giant circular television is not a success
  • 3:10 AM: WDNA goes on the air
  • 3:22 AM: Mr. Cream really really gets into playing "Flappy Bird"
  • 3:35 AM: Big Ben is annoyed to discover his View-Master no longer works
  • 3:40 AM: Sir Dennis Archer chooses the wrong vacation spot again
  • 3:42 AM: Sad Big Ben is sad
  • 3:43 AM: The History Channel keeps playing episodes out of order
  • 3:46 AM: Sad Big Ben is still sad
  • 3:48 AM: Alan Moore's exposition gland explodes
  • 3:56 AM: The One Ronnie television show is a ratings failure
  • 3:56 AM: Dr. Gargunza isn't kind; doesn't rewind
  • 3:56 AM: Miracleman goes mad trying to reproduce the brokeback pose
  • 4:10 AM: Really huge lightsaber ignited
  • 4:38 AM: British remake of "Smokey and the Bandit" is not commercially successful
• July 9, 2031: The All-Superman 3D Movie Projector is invented (The Kingdom #1)
  
  
• July 9: Action Comics Weekly #622-624 (Secret Six)
  • 1:05 AM: Jenny from the Block is working undercover (Action Comics Weekly #622)
  • 3:05 AM: "What was that? I forgot who you were." (Action Comics Weekly #622)
  • 3:16 AM: The packing containers move in on our heroes (Action Comics Weekly #623)
  • 3:55 AM: Realistic-looking robot man still unable to express human love (Action Comics Weekly #624)
• July 9: A g-r-r-r-r-r-reat crime is committed (Tiger Lawyer #1)
• July 9: Young Justice:
  • 1:28 PM: Most common method of picking a superhero team member discovered (Young Justice #3)
  • 7:54 PM: Go home, it's Friday night (Young Justice #3)
  • 10:22 PM: What's Young Justice doin'? Just hangin' around. (Young Justice #3)

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Industry birthdays:

• July 9, 1931: Virginia Romita
• July 9: Craig Anderson

Celebrity birthdays:

• July 9, 1978: Linda Park

Character birthdays:

• July 9, 1917: Captain America (?)
• July 9, 1922: William Balm
• July 9, 2129: Hoshi Sato
• July 9: Atom II
• July 9: Captain Tootsie