September 14: Today in Comics History Index

• September 14, 1752: Ray Palmer invents a entire historical excuse for him being blackout drunk for eleven days (The Atom #21)
• September 14, 1763: Someone has clearly Mickey Finned young Johnny (American Graphics #2)
• September 14, 1801: Practical joke "snipe hunt" turns deadly (Manifest Destiny #19)
• September 14, 1814: Comic books would like to remind you that today's the anniversary of the writing of "The Star Spangled Banner," our traditional, unsingable, racist national anthem (Magic Comics #36 and others)
• September 14, 1836: Aaron Burr goes out the way we were all taught he did...singing! (Real Life Comics #4)
• September 14, 1911: Gruesome man in green hat paws at your mail (All-American Comics #22)
• September 14, 1918: Guns don't kill balloons; planes kill balloons (Real Heroes #5)
• September 14, 1923: Jack Dempsey cruelly punches a defenseless, innocent bull (Real Fact Comics #6)
• September 14, 1940: Project: Kill Captain America is widely unpopular (Captain America Annual #8)
• September 14, 1955: Phillip learns to spit on fires (newuniversal: 1959 #1)
• September 14, 1985: Epistolary comic book story also includes logos (Secret Origins #16)
• September 14, 1986: President Reagan declares that bombing of this comic book will begin in five minutes (Hot Valley Days and Cocaine Nights #2)
• September 14, 1988: The World's Most Interesting Man seizes control of this comic book (Hot Valley Days and Cocaine Nights #2)
• September 14, 1989: Step to me it's third degree / You're all committing perjury (Doctor Fate #14)
• September 14, 2000: Lex Luthor orchestrates the death of seventeen men just to trick Talia into his service (Secret Files: President Luthor #1)
• September 14, 2001: America reacts to 9/11 by enacting the Kirby Protocols (Kirby: Genesis: Silver Star #1)
• September 14, 2011: Roy Thomas is needlessly cruel to Cameron Chase (Infinite Frontier #6)
  
  
• September 14: Guy Gardner's health insurance runs out (JLA: Classified #6)
• September 14: "Three: Bobby Drake, Scott Summers, and Vera Cantor (inactive)." (X-Men: Manifest Destiny #1)

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Industry birthdays:

• September 14, 1955: Jim Novak
• September 14, 1984: Donny Cates

Celebrity birthdays:

• September 14, 1934: Kate Millett