On This Day: 17 Oct

Cheeky Weekly (IPC Magazines Ltd.) #01 (22 Oct 1977).
Wildcat preview comic in 2000 A.D. (Fleetway Publications) Prog 597 (22 Oct 1988).
White Trash (Atomeka / Tundra UK) #01 (1992).

Treasury of British Comics Scream & Misty Special

First Appearances:

Mustapha Million in Cheeky Weekly #01 (22 Oct 1977).
Joe Alien in Wildcat preview comic [1988].
Turbo Jones in Wildcat preview comic [1988].
Loner in Wildcat preview comic [1988].
Kitten Magee in Wildcat preview comic [1988].

Births:

Harry Guy Bartholomew (1884); Jerry Siegel (1914); Thomas Williams (1940); Mark Gatiss (1966); Henry Flint

Deaths:

Dave Follows (2003)

Notable Events:

Nicolas Bentley married Barbara Hastings in 1934.
Belinda newspaper strip ended in 1959.
In 1971, Members of the NUJ (National Union of Journalists) objected so strongly to a cartoon in The Daily Express (Father O'Brezhnev, Missionary to Ulster) by Michael Cummings that they stopped the presses, losing 350,000 copies of the paper.
Space Family Robinson two-page strip began in in Cheeky Weekly #01 (22 Oct 1977).
David Britton and Michael Butterworth interviewed by Detective Inspector Malcolm Wood at Greater Manchester Police Headquarters in 1989.
Gollancz launched a line of graphic novels in 1991.
Rebellion's Judge Dredd: Dredd Vs. Death computer game released in 2003.
Under Water Colours, a Jamie Hewlett exhibition sponsored by Oxfam, opened in Trueman Brewrey in East London in 2009.
The Lakes International Comic Art Festival began in the town of Kendal in 2014.