On This Day: 22 Feb

Vulcan (IPC Magazines Ltd.) vol.1 #01
Topper 89 (D.C. Thomson & Co., Ltd.) #?? (25 Feb 1989).

Births:

Harold McCready (1897); John Bertram Musgrave-Wood (Emmwood; 1915); Andy Diggle (1971)

Deaths:

James H. Thorpe (1949); Victor Weisz (Vicky; 1966); Ernest Shaw (1986); Steve Whitaker (2008); John Cooper (2015)

Notable Events:

Gwilym Lloyd George, the Home Secretary, appeared at the dispatch box for the second reading of the Children and Young Persons (Harmful Publications) Act 1955 with a copy of Tales From The Crypt he had borrowed for the occasion.
Andy Capp television series began broadcast of its first – and only – series on ITV in 1988.
Denis Gifford and Bob Monkhouse looked back at British comics in A Hundred Laughs for a Ha'penny, broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in 1998.
The Perishers newspaper strip reprints began in The Daily Mirror in 2010.