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Tuesday, December 18, 2018

On This Day: 18 Dec

First Appearances:

Ticker Turner in The Victor (D.C. Thomson & Co., Ltd.) #44 (23 Dec 1961).

Births:

Charles Robinson Sykes (Jacques d ‘Or; Rilette; 1875); Michael Moorcock (1939); Ken Reid (1919); Luke Walsh (1964)

Deaths:

Ewen Bain (1989); Geoff Campion (1997)

Notable Events:

Terror Keep newspaper strip began in The Daily Mirror in 1936.
A Christmas tea for Eagle readers, with Marcus Morris, Frank Hampson, and Charles Chilton, took place in Leeds in 1951.
Michael Moorcock's 60th birthday was celebrated by the publication of moorcock@60.com in 1999. The volume had sixty contributors, and was instigated by his 'Nomads of the Time Streams' fan club. The great man's birthday party was in Texas.
St. Trinian's 2: The Legend of Fritton's Gold feature film released in the UK in 2009.

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