On This Day: 05 Nov

Remember, remember, the fifth of November,
Gunpowder Treason and Plot.
I know of no reason why the Gunpowder treason
Should ever be forgot!

Wallace & Gromit: Anoraknophobia by Tristan Davies & Nick Newman (Hodder &Stoughton; 1998).
Captain Britain vol.IV: The Siege of Camelot (Panini Books; 2009).
The Beatles Story (ROK Mobile Comics) #01 (2012).
Britain's Best Political Cartoons 2015 edited by Tim Benson. (Random House Books; 2015) ISBN-13: 978-1847947635

First Appearances:

Robo Machines in Eagle and Scream! (IPC Magazines Ltd.) vol.20? #138 (10 Nov 1984).

Births:

Edmund Xavier Kapp (1890); Bud Neill (1911)

Deaths:

Percy Fearon (Poy; 1948); Mabel Lucie Attwell (1964); René Goscinny (1977); Robert Maxwell (1991); Ron Bennett (2006)

Notable Events:

Robert Maxwell decided to go for a swim in the Atlantic in 1991.
Pedigree Books incorporated in 1996.
Spider-Man made a personal appearance at Nightingales in Chorley in 1984.
Ian Botham was a castaway on Desert Island Discs, on BBC Radio 4, in 1989.
Dan Dare: Pilot Of The Future CGI television series began in 2002.
Procon 1 took place at the Ramada Hotel, Bristol, in 2004.
Alan Moore's single The Decline of English Murder released in 2012.
Leeds Comic Con, part of Thought Bubble, the Leeds Comic Art Festival, began in 2016.