On This Day: 14 Feb

Valentine's Day

Shockwave (London Editions Magazines) #01 (1991)

Births:

Bernard Venables (1907); Anthony J. Bryant (1961); Roger Langridge (1967)

Deaths:

James Crighton (1962); Dennis Castle (1993)

Notable Events:

Tiger Tim made his first comic–book appearance in 1914 after starring in Victorian supplements.
Tik and Tok newspaper strip began in The Daily Mirror in 1925.
William Davis was a castaway on Desert Island Discs, on BBC Radio 4, in 1988.
The Hi-Ex comics convention began, at Eden Court, Bishop's Road, Inverness, in 2009.