On This Day: 18 Mar

Games Gazette (Games Gazette) #01 (1983)

First Appearances:

Sgt. Walter Waggers (Waggers' Winter War) in Warlord (D.C. Thomson & Co., Ltd.) #339 (21 Mar 1981).

Births:

Shea Anton Pensa (1968)

Deaths:

Michael Attwell (Zoke; 2006); Arthur C. Clarke (2008); Bernie Wrightson (2017)

Notable Events:

IPC Magazines purchased the Once Upon a Time title from City Magazines in 1972.
Comics 101, the first British convention dedicated to homegrown material, began in 1976.
The Daily Mirror reported, in 2000, that Neil Gaiman accused J.K. Rowling of ripping off his Books of Magic character for her Harry Potter series. Naturally, there was no basis in fact for the "journalism," and Gaiman has strenuously denied any connection between the characters.
Barry Humphries announced that he was retiring his Dame Edna Everage character in 2012. He later changed his mind.
The Canny Comic Con began, at Newcastle City Library, in 2017.

On This Day: 24 Nov

Hammer Horror Collector's Special (Marvel Comics UK Ltd.) #01 (1994).
The Flash: Rebirth (Titan) #01 (2016).

Births:

Dudley Pout (1908); Walter Goetz (1911); Horacio Altuna (1941); Vic Neill (1941); Ian Botham (1955)

Notable Events:

The Bystander magazine published Bruce Bairnsfather's original "Better 'Ole" cartoon in 1915.
Richard Ingrams married his first wife, Mary Morgan, in 1962.
A Michael Cummings cartoon attacking trade unions, published in The Daily Express in 1971, brought a complaint from the printing union.
Barry Humphries was a castaway on Desert Island Discs, on BBC Radio 4, in 1973.