On This Day: 11 Dec

First Appearances:

Keepers of the Sun Stone in The Victor (D.C. Thomson & Co., Ltd.) #43 (16 Dec 1961).
The Secret Quest of Tiger Shaw in The Victor (D.C. Thomson & Co., Ltd.) #43 (16 Dec 1961).

Births:

René Bull (1872); John Buscema (1927); Peter Firmin (1928); David William Boutland (1938)

Deaths:

F.H. Townsend (1920); Willie Rushton (1996)

Notable Events:

The Daily Mirror demonstrated their fact-checking skills by calling Judge Dredd an American comic-book character in a 1991 article.
The first episode of Black Mirror, co-written by Charlie Brooker, was broadcast on Channel 4 in 2011.
The short film Nothing to Declare, written by Frank Quitely, was funded through IndieGoGo in 2016.