On This Day: 30 Nov

Sexton Blake Annual 1942 replica (Bear Alley Books; 2012) ISBN-13: 9781907081651.

Judge Dredd: Crime Chronicles - Blood Will Tell by James Swallow (Big Finish Productions; 2009)

First Appearances:

Brassneck in The Dandy (D.C. Thomson & Co., Ltd.) #1202 (05 Dec 1964).
The Freedom Flyers in Warlord (D.C. Thomson & Co., Ltd.) #167 (03 Dec 1977).
Trask (Trash) in 2000 A.D. (Fleetway Publications) Prog 760 (07 Dec 1991).

Births:

Mark Lemon (1809); Norman Yendell Ward (1906); Gary Lineker (1960)

Deaths:

Compton Mackenzie (1972)

Notable Events:

The Mekons' first album, The Quality of Mercy Is Not Strnen, released by Virgin Records in 1979.
Paul 'Gamma' Gamble's funeral and wake - at The Abbey Tavern - took place in 2010. Forbidden Planet and Titan Distributor staff were in attendance.
A restored version of The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp was shown in London in 2011.
Jim Barker won the Rotsler Award, sponsored by the Southern California Institute for Fan Interests, in 2012.
An article in The Independent outlined the history of the speech balloon in comics in 2013.