On This Day: 12 Apr

First Appearances:

Paco - Trained to Kill in Valiant and Vulcan (IPC Magazines Ltd.)

Births:

Dick Ericson (1916); Oliver Postgate (1925); Víctor de la Fuente (1927); Bambos Georgiou (1959); Frazer Diamond (Toonhound; 1968); Fehed Said (1979); Peter Cooper (1985)

Deaths:

Robert Bateman (1973); Leslie Bell (1995)

Notable Events:

Rowland Emett married Elsie May "Mary" Evans in 1941.
The Tiffany Jones feature film, based on the newspaper strip, released in 1973.
Eaglecon, a convention dedicated to the Eagle comic, began in 1980.
Sid's Snake appeared on the cover of Dave Gorman vs. the Rest of the World, an Ebury Press paperback re-release.
Dekko Comics hosted an event in Glasgow, in association with Dyslexia Scotland, to celebrate the launch of monthly subscriptions.