On This Day: 15 Oct

DC Super Heroes: The Flash (Titan Comics) #01 (2015)

The Amazing Remarkable Monsieur Leotard by Dan Best & Eddie Campbell. (First Second; 2008) ISBN-13: 978-1596433014.
Fiends of the Eastern Front by Gerry-Finley Day, David Bishop, Dan Abnett, Carlos Ezquerra & Colin MacNeil (Rebellion; 2010)
Zombo: Can I Eat You, Please? by Al Ewing & Henry Flint. (Rebellion; 2010) ISBN-13: 978-1-907519-25-3.
Sexton Blake Annual 1941 [replica] (Bear Alley Books; 2012) ISBN-13: 9781907081644.

First Appearances:

The Iron Three in The Victor (D.C. Thomson & Co., Ltd.) #77 (20 Oct 1962).
Mark Tyme [1] in Valiant (Fleetway Publications Ltd.) #3 (20 Oct 1962).
Trace (Time Flies) in 2000 A.D. (Fleetway Publications) Prog 701 (20 Oct 1990).

Births:

Edwin Charles Tubb (1919); Tony Hart (1925); Cam Kennedy (1944); Patrick Brown (1969); Chris Cunningham (1970)

Deaths:

Gilbert Arthur à Beckett (1891); Geoffrey Wheeler (1995); Eddie Jones (1999); Manny Curtis (2007)

Notable Events:

Funny Cuts began running the first full front–page strip in 1890.
The Adventures of Pip, Squeak and Wilfred newspaper pull–out section began in The Daily Mirror in 1921.
Tuppence Coloured revue began, at the Globe Theatre, London, in 1947. Part of the show was an adaptation of Rowland Emett's cartoons.
International Times launched at The Roundhouse at an "All Night Rave" in 1966.
Mel Croucher's Mercy Dash (as portrayed by Helen Rothschild) and Superman (as portrayed by a piece of cardboard) entertained attendees of the PC Show at the Earls Court Centre in 1988. A life-size Spitting Image puppet of Margaret Thatcher was also in attendance.
Fat Slags feature film released in the UK – to terrible reviews – in 2004.
Ethel and Ernest animated feature given première at the London Film Festival in 2016.
The Heath Robinson Museum officially opened, by poet and novelist Michael Rosen, in 2016.