On This Day: 27 Jan

Jester (1912)
Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles Adventures (Fleetway Publications) #01 (1990)

Births:

Flo Lancaster (1881); Pete Williams (1937); Steven Appleby (1956); Richard Starkings (1958); Sean Phillips (1965); Lee Carter

Deaths:

Arthur Marshall (1989)

Notable Events:

The final appearance of Captain Marvel and Captain Marvel, Jr, in their own titles – #24 of each – published by L. Miller & Son, Ltd. (1954).
Marvelman #335 became the last weekly issue of the title, and the last regular comic to feature original adventures of Marvelman, in 1960.
Woolworths Group plc entered administration in 2008, bringing an end to their presence on the high street. The Sign of the Scarlet Ladybird obviously didn't help the company...
A Gerald Scarfe cartoon in The Sunday Times in 2013, depicting Benjamin Netanyahu trapping Palestinians in a wall with blood for mortar, was criticised for supposed anti-Semitic content by Board of Deputies of British Jews.