On This Day: 22 Jan

First Appearances:

Drake of E-Boat Alley in Warlord (D.C. Thomson & Co., Ltd.) #18 (25 Jan 1975).
The Stuarts of Stalingrad in Warlord (D.C. Thomson & Co., Ltd.) #18 (25 Jan 1975).
Gunner Kite The Soldier and the Samurai! in Warlord (D.C. Thomson & Co., Ltd.) #179 (25 Jan 1978).
Lieutenant Moto The Soldier and the Samurai! in Warlord (D.C. Thomson & Co., Ltd.) #179 (25 Jan 1978).
Storm Force in Battle (IPC Magazines Ltd.) #?? (?? Jan 1987).
Bix Barton, Master of the Rum and Uncanny in 2000 A.D Prog 663 (27 Jan 1990).

Births:

Walter Bell (1893); Kimon Evan Marengo (KEM; 1904)

Deaths:

Carlo Pellegrini (Ape; 1889); Patten Wilson (1934)

Notable Events:

Romeo Brown newspaper strip ended in 1962.
The first episode of the original television series Stan Lee's Lucky Man broadcast on Sky 1 in 2016.