On This Day: 04 Oct

Victor and Warlord (D.C. Thomson & Co., Ltd.) #1338 (11 Oct 1986).

Births:

Sidney Edward Paget (1860); Basil Hone (1926)

Deaths:

Dino Battaglia (1983); Mike Butterworth (1986); Josè Maria Jorge (2010); Brian Williams (2010)

Notable Events:

Camille and her Boss newspaper strip began in The Daily Mirror in 1937.
The Crisis tour ended in SF Bookshop in Edinburgh in 1988, with Jim Baikie, Carlos Ezquerra, Igor Goldkind, Steve MacManus, Pat Mills and John Smith signing autographs.
Birmingham International Comics Show began in Birmingham in 2008.
Locomotive 57302, owned by Direct Rail Services, was renamed Chad Varah in 2012.