June 14: Today in Comics History Index

• June 14: Flag Day
  • June 14: Happy Flag Day! (Marvel Age #90)
  • June 14, 1777: Ben Franklin...Plagiarist! (Marvel Treasury Special Featuring Captain America's Bicentennial Battles)
  • June 14, 1777: The Founding Fathers skin and display Captain America (Real Life Comics #4)
  • June 14, 1920: Underwhelming superhero with world's stupidest birthmark is born (Our Flag Comics #2)
  • June 14: Flag Day Bonus: This Totally Am Not Flag Day (Adventure Comics #285)
  • June 14: Flag Day Bonus: Batman: Fightin' Mad About Flags (Batman #44)
  • June 14: Flag Day Bonus: Betsy Ross sues Superboy for trademark theft (Superboy #2)
  • June 14: Flag Day Bonus: Betsy Ross murders George Washington (Wimmen's Comix #6)
  • June 14: Flag Day Bonus: You'll put your eye out with that thing, Bucky (Young Allies #8)
  • June 14: Flag Day Bonus: Son quickly learns to stop asking his dad questions (PSA from DC Comics cover-dated November 1959)
  • June 14: Flag Day Special: Correct and Incorrect Flag Display Etiquette in a Comic Book Universe
• June 14, 1821: Poor Fred Hembeck (Carnage #11)
• June 14, 1835: Miniature ship sails past narrator (Men of War #24)
• June 14, 1933: Captain Scott arrives at the South Pole slightly off schedule (Doc Savage #5)
• June 14, 1940: The Germans wore grey, this guy wore blue (Real Heroes #7)
• June 14, 1961: Earth-2 is introduced; fanboys immediately begin arguing over its canon (The Flash #123)
• June 14, 1965: John, George, and Ringo swear off scrambled eggs forever (The Beatles in Comics)
• June 14, 19XX: We all knew that already, Moira (X-Men: Deadly Genesis #1)
• June 14, 2004: Greg Rucka's Renee Montoya/Crispus Allen slash fiction has a fundamental flaw at the heart of its premise (Gotham Central #24)
• June 14, 2013: Motion picture premieres adapting Milton Bradley's "Operation" (Black Market #1)
• June 14, 2021: Enforced group activities: a sure way to drive me away screaming from the event (The Nice House on the Lake #1-2)
  
  
• June 14: Giant duck turns himself in to police (Gang Busters #62)
• June 14: Check is bursting with delicious fruit flavor (Marvel Mystery Comics #32)
• June 14: There's text, and there's subtext, and then there's supertext (Tomorrow Stories Special #1)

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Industry birthdays:

• June 14, 1915: George Klein
• June 14, 1917: Bob Wood
• June 14, 1930: Sam Grainger
• June 14, 1944: Jordi Bernet
• June 14, 1955: Paul Kupperberg

Character birthdays:

• June 14, 1988: Ragged Robin