On This Day: 05 Jan

Avengers Assemble (Panini Publications) vol.? #01 (01 Feb 2012).

Births:

John Bernard "J.B." Handelsman (1922); Kev Crossley

Deaths:

Eric W. Pasold (1978); Peter Weston (2017)

Notable Events:

Jimpy newspaper strip began in The Daily Mirror in 1946.
The first episode of A Whole Scene Going On, presented by Barry Fantoni, broadcast on the BBC in 1966.
Miracle Comics' American Eagle original stage show began at The Old Red Lion, St. John Street, London in 1988.
The Dan Dare exhibition at Bourne Hall, in Ewell, ended in 2002.
The Ballad of Halo Jones returned to the stage for a brief run of the play, as part of Thought Bubble, in 2012.