On This Day: 05 Mar

Battle Picture Weekly (IPC Magazines Ltd.) #01 (08 Mar 1975).
Dark Souls: Tales of Ember (Titan Comics) #01 (2017).
Doctor Who Ghost Stories (Titan Comics) #01 (2017).
Penny Dreadful (Titan Comics) #01 (2017).
World War Tank Girl (Titan Comics) #01 (2017).

First Appearances:

Red Star Roberts, Gang Buster in The Victor (D.C. Thomson & Co., Ltd.) #55 (10 Mar 1962).
Dave 'Lofty' Banks (Lofty's One-Man Luftwaffe) in Battle Picture Weekly #01 (08 Mar 1975).
Sergeant Bill Battle (The Monsters of No-Man's-Land) in Warlord (D.C. Thomson & Co., Ltd.) #24 (08 Mar 1975).
Danny Budd (The Bootneck Boy) in Battle Picture Weekly #01 (08 Mar 1975).
Sgt. Steve Dawson (D-Day Dawson) in Battle Picture Weekly #01 (08 Mar 1975).
The Flight of the Golden Hinde in Battle Picture Weekly #01 (08 Mar 1975).
Mike Nelson (Day of the Eagle) in Battle Picture Weekly #01 (08 Mar 1975).
The Rat Pack in Battle Picture Weekly #01 (08 Mar 1975).
The Terror Behind the Bamboo Curtain in Battle Picture Weekly #01 (08 Mar 1975).
Luke Clegg (H.M.S. Smokey Joe) in Warlord (D.C. Thomson & Co., Ltd.) #282 (16 Feb 1980).

Births:

Molly Brett (1902); Jose Rafael Fonteriz (1961)

Deaths:

Peter Fraser (1950); Eric Burgin (1966); Ruggero Giovannini (1983); Martin Edmond (2004); George Worsley Adamson (2005)

Notable Events:

Philip Zec's controversial cartoon depicting a seaman adrift after the sinking of his ship was published in 1942.