On This Day: 27 Oct

Tiger and Speed (IPC Magazines Ltd.) #[??] (01 Nov 1980).
Battle Action Force (IPC Magazines Ltd.) #[440] (29 Oct 1983).
The Dandy (D.C. Thomson & Co., Ltd.) #3508 (30 Oct 2010).
The Thrill Electric (Channel 4) webcomic

It's Ghastly! (Hibernia; Oct 2016)

Births:

Florence Anderson (1893); Leo Baxendale (1930); Patrick Woodroffe (1940); Bernie Wrightson (1948)

Notable Events:

Spider-Man made a personal appearance on Central ITV's Saturday Starship magazine show in 1984. He also made personal appearances at Tesco in Gateshead and Birmingham, as well as Carrefour at Boroughbridge.
The Revolver Hallowe'en Tour descended on SF Bookshop, 42 West Crosscauseway, Edinburgh, in 1990, before making headway to Forbidden Planet, 168 Buchannon Street, Glasgow.
The Comic pull-out section began in The Guardian in 2007, with Robotgirl by John Aggs taking the front cover.
The first episode of Dead Set, written by former Oink! contributor Charlie Brooker, broadcast on Channel 4 in 2008.
The Dandy was relaunched in 2010, after the hybrid Dandy Xtreme experiment. Nigel Parkinson drew caricatures of the hosts of ITV chat show Loose Women, which appeared during that show's discussion of the news. With 18 new strips included in the line-up of the title, various other TV and radio shows made note of the developments, the most controversial of which was Harry Hill's prominent place on the cover.
Wallace and Gromit newspaper strip ended in 2013.
The official Beano YouTube channel launched in 2014 with the Dennis And Gnasher - Stink Bomb Prank short.