On This Day: 15 Jan

Bunty (D.C. Thomson & Co., Ltd.) #01 (1958).
Sparky (D.C. Thomson & Co., Ltd.) #01 (1965).
Joe 90 (City Magazines) #01 (18 Jan 1969).
Look and Learn (Fleetway Publications Ltd.) #01.
Blue Jeans (D.C. Thomson & Co., Ltd.) #01.
The Astonishing Spider-Man (Panini UK) vol.5 #01 (28 Jan 2015)

Greatest Hits #01 (1981)
LM (Newsfield) #01 (1987)

Births:

Ian Dickson (1905); Robert Geary (1931); Michael Daley (1944)

Deaths:

Alfred Edmeades Bestall (1986); Andrew Hutton (2015)

Notable Events:

A cutting of a Ronald Niebour Daily Mail cartoon, published in 1944, was found in the ruins of Hitler's Chancellery.
Look and Learn went on sale in 1961, amid the most thorough promotional launch given to such a title.
The Beano–Dandy Story, the third episode of the 11th season of documentary series Arena, was broadcast in 1988.
The lawsuit between Fox and Warner Bros. was resolved in 2009, allowing the Watchmen film adaptation to be released.
The first episode of original television series Utopia broadcast on Channel 4 in 2013. The series owed a great deal to comics in both its' narrative and visual style.
Revolutionary War: Dark Angel (Marvel) #01 (Jan 2014) released in the US in 2014.