On This Day: 15 Mar

Big K (IPC Magazines Ltd.) #01 (Apr 1984).
Beyond #01 (1995)

King Solomon's Mines (Bear Alley Books; 2013) ISBN-13: 9781907081699.
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson; w: Mike Butterworth, a: John Millar Watt. (Bear Alley Books; Mar 2013) ISBN-13: 9781907081682

Births:

Sir Hildebrand Aubrey Harmsworth, 1st Baronet (1872); Eugenio Juan Zoppi (1923); Mervyn Haisman (1928); John Coulthart (1962)

Deaths:

Mary Tourtel (1948); Joseph Lee (1975); Nadir Quinto (1994)

Notable Events:

Keyboard Skills one-panel cartoon gags, by Tony Benyon, began in Big K magazine in 1984.
The BBC Schools television block broadcast a feature on "new wave" comics (including Crisis) in 1989.
UKCAC began at the Institute of Education, London, in 1997.
London Super Comic Convention began at ExCel Centre, London, in 2014.