On This Day: 20 Apr

Space Aces! Comic Book Heroes from the Forties and Fifties! by Denis Gifford (1992)
Super Duper Supermen! Comic Book Heroes from the Forties and Fifties! by Denis Gifford (1992)

Births:

Rudolph Ackermann (1764); Herbert Foxwell (1890); Giorgio Olivetti (1908); Terry Maloney (1917); John McNamara (1918); Carole E. Barrowman (1959); Igor Goldkind (1960); Asia Alfasi (1984)

Deaths:

Robert Seymour (1836); Will Spencer (2002)

Notable Events:

The fourth Shrewsbury International Cartoon Festival began in 2007.
The BBC 4 radio series The Reunion, broadcast in 2008, celebrated D.C. Thomson & Co., Ltd. comics by asking editors, writers and artists to talk about their work. Contributors included Walter Fearn, Jim Petrie, Bill Ritchie and Dave Torrie, with archive recordings of Leo Baxenedale, Tony Robinson, Michael Rosen, A.N. Wilson and Jacqueline Wilson, among others.

On This Day: 15 Dec

First Appearances:

Sergeant Joe Bannon (Death Wish) in Valiant (IPC Magazines Ltd.) #[???] (20 Dec 1975).
Det. Jack McBane, One-Eyed Jack in Valiant (IPC Magazines Ltd.) #[???] (20 Dec 1975).
Al Bestardi (Al's Baby) in Judge Dredd The Megazine (Fleetway Publications) vol.1 #4 (Jan 1991).

Births:

Kody Chamberlain (1972)

Notable Events:

The Who Sell Out record released in 1967, with a cover by Roger Law.
A sneak-preview of the Batman computer game was featured on the cover-mounted cassette with Crash #60 (Jan 1989).
The Non–Savvy, Non–Commuter by Asia Alfasi displayed in Piccadilly Circus Underground station in 2006, as part of the "Think Cities" project which celebrated 100 years of the Piccadilly Line.
Bananaman musical began a limited run at the Southwark Playhouse, Newington Causeway, London, in 2017.