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Saturday, October 20, 2018

On This Day: 20 Oct

MASK preview comic in Eagle (IPC Magazines Ltd.) #240 (25 Oct 1986).
TV21 #243 (2014).
The Mighty World of Marvel (Panini Comics) vol.6 #01 (2016)

Judge Dredd: Future Crime (Fleetway Publications) Definitive Edition [1990]

First Appearances:

Major Jim Slayer (Slayer and the War of the Robots) in Warlord (D.C. Thomson & Co., Ltd.) #422 (23 Oct 1982).

Births:

Fred Robinson (1912); Luis Arcas (1934)

Deaths:

Roy Ullyett (Berryman; 2001); Les Barton (2008); Ken Hunter (2008)

Notable Events:

Stan Lee appeared at Camden's Roundhouse in 1975, where he talked about Marvel history and answered questions.
A statue of Frank Sidebottom, sculpted by Colin Spofforth, was unveiled (at 11:37 no less) in Timperley, in 2013.
Supermarionation Blu-Ray box-set released, as a Network exclusive, in 2014. Included in the feelies was an updated and expanded edition of Stephen La Riviere’s book, an exclusive edition of TV21, published especially for the set, as well as a wallet of postcards.
Mr. Men and Little Miss stamps released by the Post Office in 2016.

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