On This Day: 29 Jan

Beeb (Polystyle) #01 (29 Jan 1985-04 Feb 1985)

First Appearances:

Dumpy Dan, the Sauce Pan Man in The Victor (D.C. Thomson & Co., Ltd.) #50 (03 Feb 1962).
Sub-Lieutenant Ken Kennedy (Convoy Pilot) in Warlord (D.C. Thomson & Co., Ltd.) #19 (01 Feb 1975).

Births:

Ted Holmes (1916)

Deaths:

Joshua Charles Armitage (Ionicus; 1998)

Notable Events:

Bruce Bairnsfather gave a lecture entitled "Old Bill and Me," at the Queen's Hall, London, in 1919.
Wes Slade newspaper strip began in The Sunday Express in 1961.
Steve Bell appeared on The Today Programme on BBC Radio 4 in 2013.
Revolutionary War: Knights of Pendragon (Marvel) #01 (Jan 2014) released in the US in 2014.
Kingsman: The Secret Service feature film released in the UK in 2015.