June 8: Today in Comics History Index

• June 8, 1927: Criminal sentence expands to fill remaining space in panel (Crime Must Pay the Penalty #33/1)
• June 8, 1938: Not these guys again (Batman #72)
• June 8, 1954: Doomsday Clock #10:
  • #RestoreTheJacquesCut
  • Neither does the writer
  • More delays on the filming of the Hellblazer movie
  • Twenty-five years later, Columbo cracks the case in ninety minutes
• June 8, 1954: German man gazes wistfully into the window of "Sausages, Coils, Steins and Armadillos 'Я' Us" (Yellow Claw #1)
• June 8, 1984: Naked man holds swaddled baby (Doomsday Clock #12)
  
  
• June 8: A new record is set for the world's stupidest criminals (Batman #156)
• June 8: Defective glowing computer irradiates Cheryl Blossom, turns her into rage-filled red She-Hulk (Cheryl Blossom #24)
• June 8: Calendar Cat stares deeply into your very soul (Detective Comics #787)
• June 8: Go tell Aunt Grey Goose (Iron Man #599)
• June 8: The Three Stooges Blow Up the Planet, more like (The Three Stooges Meet Hercules)

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Industry birthdays:

• June 8, 1910: C.C. Beck
• June 8: Rita Smolinski
• June 8: Michael Higgins