On This Day: 10 Nov

Starburst (Marvel Comics Ltd.) #4 (Nov 1978)

First Appearances:

"Slugger" Shaw (I Don't Wanna Be a Corporal) in Warlord (D.C. Thomson & Co., Ltd.) #112 (13 Nov 1976).

Births:

William Hogarth (1697); David Haldane (1954); Neil Gaiman (1960)

Deaths:

Patrick Gordon Campbell, 3rd Baron Glenavy (1980); Alberto Breccia (1993)

Notable Events:

Comic artist Roy Wilson was drafted in 1918 – the day before the Armistice.
The first issue of Starburst to be published by Marvel went on sale in 1978.
Bryan Talbot made an appearance at the Cheshunt Library in 2008.
Comica Comiket Independent Comics Fair began, at The Great Hall, Bishopgate, London, in 2012. Guests included Alison Bechdel and Bryan Talbot.