On This Day: 16 Jan

Fleetway Super Library: Fantastic Series (Fleetway) #01 (1967).
Fleetway Super Library: Fantastic Series (Fleetway) #02 (1967).
Fleetway Super Library: Front Line Series (Fleetway) #01 (1967).
Fleetway Super Library: Front Line Series (Fleetway) #02 (1967).
Fleetway Super Library: Secret Agent Series (Fleetway) #01 (1967).
Fleetway Super Library: Secret Agent Series (Fleetway) #02 (1967).
June and Pixie (IPC Magazines Ltd.) #[???] (20 Jan 1973).
Star Wars Weekly (Marvel Comics Ltd.) #100 (23 Jan 1980).

First Appearances:

Maddock's Marauders in Fleetway Super Library: Front Line Series
Johnny Nero in Fleetway Super Library: Secret Agent Series
Top-Sergeant Ironside in Fleetway Super Library: Front Line Series

Births:

Albert Edgar Beard (1902); George Thomson (1921); Michael Attwell (Zoke; 1943); Al Davison (1960); Garth Ennis (1970)

Deaths:

Kaye Webb (1996); Kenneth McDonough (2002); Barbara Wace (2003); Alan Hemus (2009)

Notable Events:

The final Bruce Bairnsfather cartoon was published in both Birmingham Weekly Post and Midland Pictorial in 1959.
The Marvel Revolution PHASE 8 (overseen by Dez Skinn) began in 1980: Star Wars celebrated 100 issues, while Incredible Hulk Weekly saw the Beast solo-strip reprints begin, as well as new features added to fill the eight new pages the title acquired.
Fleetway Editions were formally taken over by the Danish publisher Gutenberghus Press in 1992.
Thelwell exhibition began at Mottisfont Abbey in Hampshire in 2016. The first large exhibition near his former home, the exhibition ran until April.