September 23: Today in Comics History Index

• September 23, 1779: Led Zeppelin declares war on the Rolling Stones (The World Around Us #11)
• September 23, 1804: It's Creature-Fest '04 at Red Lobster (Manifest Destiny #19)
• September 23, 1942: Exactingly planned secret night mission takes place under brilliant full moon (Semper Fi #9)
• September 23, 1959: Ozymandias invents the Dutch angle (Before Watchmen: Ozymandias #3)
• September 23, 1971: Metamorpho gets cranky when he's woken up early (The Brave and the Bold #101)
• September 23, 1996: Linda Park tells Rob his fly is open (Flash #119)
• September 23, 1999: Stan Lee sneaks into J. Jonah Jameson's office and remakes the front page (Marvel house ad, December 1999)
• September 23, 2020: NYPD promises new subway robots will be approachable and friendly (Machine Man #1)
  
  
• September 23: Batman punches out Michael Vick (Batman Annual #1)
• September 23: Captain Marvel declares Indian food "too hot" and asks for a glass of milk (Young Justice #18)

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Industry birthdays:

• September 23, 1949: Paul Ryan

Celebrity birthdays:

• September 23, 63 BC: Augustus Caesar
• September 23, 1917: El Santo
• September 23, 1926: John Coltrane
• September 23, 1978: Anthony Mackie