On This Day: 01 Feb

Smash! (Odhams Press Ltd.) #01 (05 Feb 1966).
Tammy (IPC Magazines, Ltd.) #01 (06 Feb 1971).
Star Wars Weekly (Marvel Comics International Inc.) #01 (08 Feb 1978).

Judge Dredd: The Final Cut by Matthew Smith. (Black Flame; Feb 2005) ISBN-10: 1844161358.

First Appearances:

Bad Penny in Smash! (Odhams) #01 (05 Feb 1966).

Births:

Keith Watson (1935)

Deaths:

George Cruikshank (1878); L. Bruce Mayne (1968); Godfrey Douglas Giles (1941); Harry Parlett (1971); Bill Holroyd (2000); Ernest Dudley (2006); Shirley Bellwood (2016)

Notable Events:

Peter Fluck and Roger Law were castaways on Desert Island Discs, on BBC Radio 4, in 1987.
The Royal Mail released Greeting Stamps - Messages, a set of ten first class stamps bearing the likeness of Dan Dare, Rupert Bear and Biggles among others, in 1994. Released alongside the stamps were envelope stickers with comic-book iconography.
A statue of newspaper strip character GI Bride (from Lobey Dosser), sculpted by Ranald MacColl, was unveiled in Glasgow in 2011.