June 6: Today in Comics History Index

• June 6, 1916: Bat ears are installed on the original Wayne Manor (Sandman #1)
• June 6, 1924: Commissioner Gordon gets sheepskin; sheep is furious (World's Finest Comics #53)
• June 6, 1936: Indiana Jones enters Tibet, declares entire country should be in a museum (Indiana Jones and the Tomb of the Gods #1)
• June 6, 1936: Lucky Luciano plussed, too (Sensational Police Cases #2)
• June 6, 1944: D-Day
  • 365 Days of Defiance, Day 157: D-Day (Sgt. Fury Annual #2)
  • Hey, remember that film The Longest Day? Boy, they weren't kidding. (All-American Men at War #74)
  • Subtle, nuanced reflection on the D-Day Invasion somberly portrayed in comic books (Cosmic Ghost Rider Destroys Marvel History #4)
  • Nazis taunted (Fightin' Army #39)
  • Invasion enjoyed by some (Fightin' Navy #82)
  • Hitler plussed (It Really Happened #7)
  • First issue published of Sgt. Rock/Ed McMahon Team-Up "The Toughest Ticket" PSA)
  • Back then when they knew how to treat Nazis (Our Army at War #73)
  • Do or do not; there is no try (Two-Fisted Tales #27)
  • Exciting D-Day story baited-and-switched (Valor #2)
  • Innovative new fighter airplane can now fly across panel borders (War Is Hell #1)
  • Yogi Berra attacks Third Reich with baseball metaphors (Yogi Berra)
• June 6, 1952: "Peter de Diable? Of the Narragansett de Diables?" (Diary of Horror #1)
• June 6, 1961: Warren Ellis creates evil Fantastic Four, self-pronounces the idea "f***ing brilliant" (Planetary #6)
• June 6, 1962: The Beatles: The Crossing (Beatles with an A: Birth of a Band and others)
• June 6, 1970: Once again, Peter Parker doesn't get a byline for his photographs (Amazing Adventures #3)
• June 6, 1994: Tony Stark is really proud of his new floaty desk (Iron Man Annual #15)
• June 6, 1998: Guinness Book of World Records Award: Most times the phrase "Up and Atom!" has been said during a honeymoon (The Fall and Rise of Captain Atom #2-3)
• June 6, 2015: Black Cat steals Joan Jett's band (Spider-Gwen #5)
• June 6, 2019: Superman is missing? Why isn't Clark Kent reporting on this? (Doomsday Clock #8)
• June 6, 2021: A Great Metropolitan Newspaper, A Lousy Amateur Masthead (Infinite Frontier #3)
• June 6, 3333: Strawberry jam spilled (Bleed Them Dry #5)
  
  
• June 6: Black Baron gets pwned by Princess Peach (Adventure Comics #145)
• June 6: A good day for everyone except Raymond Sanders (Avengers #61)
• June 6: A T-Rex slowly, stealthily sneaks up on the Dynamic Duo (Batman #387)
• June 6: Black Mask rethinks his decision to buy two twin beds (Batman #387)
• June 6: Nancy still keeps receipts (Nancy)
• June 6: Superboy totally missed last night's A&E Biography of Bret "Hitman" Hart (Superman #10)
• June 6: First Rock Group on the Moon (Tintin: Explorers on the Moon)
• June 6: Tom Taylor sells out one-man show of him staring at his shoes for ninety minutes (The Unwritten #37)

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Industry birthdays:

• June 6, 1930: Jerry Dumas

Celebrity birthdays:

• June 6, 1885: Ring Lardner
• June 6, 1963: Jason Isaacs