September 8: Today in Comics History Index

• September 8, 1565: But actually, no one should concern themselves with this situation except the Turks (Real Life Comics #8)
• September 8, 1900: It's so hot his inkwell has dried completely up (Real Fact Comics #14)
• September 8, 1931: Bridge on the River I...rony (Ghosts #97)
• September 8, 1939: American Bureaucracy: The Comic Book (All-Star Squadron #61)
• September 8, 1960: Child sent off to have her bottom teeth surgically inserted (Fantastic Four #1/694)
• September 8, 1966: New sci-fi television show eventually leads to everybody getting Tuvixed this week (George's Run: A Writer's Journey through the Twilight Zone)
• September 8, 1990: Superman makes his first appearance, apparently (Superman: Secret Identity #1)
• September 8, 1998: America refuses to learn from yet another pandemic (advertisement for Spyro)

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Celebrity birthdays:

• September 8, 1799: José María Córdova
• September 8, 1921: Harry Secombe
• September 8, 1925: Peter Sellers