September 29: Today in Comics History Index

• September 29, 1918: Commander Skywalker's Prussian chicken collection finally pays off (Real Heroes #5)
• September 29, 1918: War gets the day off for parent/general conferences (The Stretcher Bearers)
• September 29, 1930: Bob Hope writes a headline (Famous Stars #2)
• September 29, 1949: For some reason Irving Thalberg gets hoisted up by the Brooklyn Dodgers (Don Newcombe one-shot)
• September 29, 1993: Sure, it's perfectly sensible to let an incarcerated terrorist have fertilizer and solvent in his cell (Warrior #11 and V for Vendetta #3)
• September 29, 1997: Yeah, that sort of thing was always happening in 1997 (Back to the Future #17)
  
  
• September 29: Somebody's parents are killed; Batman watches it on TV (Batman and Robin Eternal #18)

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Industry birthdays:

• September 29, 1926: Russ Heath
• September 29, 1959: Patric Verrone

Celebrity birthdays:

• September 29, 1904: Greer Garson
• September 29, 1913: Trevor Howard
• September 29, 1931: Anita Ekberg
• September 29, 1942: Madeline Kahn