On This Day: 25 Feb

Battle (IPC Magazines Ltd.) #[356] (27 Feb 1982) *new look*

Megaton (Skyjack Publishing) #01 (2010) *magazine*

First Appearances:

The Fists of Jimmy Chang in Battle #[356] (27 Feb 1982).
The Hunters S16 in Battle #[356] (27 Feb 1982).
Truck Turpin in Battle #[356] (27 Feb 1982).

Births:

Antonio Canale (1915); Frederic Mullally (1918); Clifford Makins (1924); Cyril Alfred Jacob (Chic; 1926); Colin Whittock (1940); Arthur Wyatt

Deaths:

Sir John Tenniel (1914); Virgilio Muzzi (2010)

Notable Events:

Victorian thief Charlie Peace was hung from the neck until dead in 1879. His fictional adventures would later be serialised in Buster.
Jimmy Gimmicks newspaper strip began in The Daily Sketch in 1957.
Forbidden Planet opened a store at 36 Dawson Street, in Dublin, in 1989.
London Super Comic Con began at the ExCel Centre, London in 2012.

On This Day: 26 Oct

Sláine: The Horned God (Fleetway Publications; 1989].
The Chronicles of Genghis Grimtoad (Marvel) nn (1990).

Births:

Lionel Hale (1909); Francisco Solano López (1928); Les Gibbard (1945)

Deaths:

William Hogarth (1764); Albert George Morrow (1927); Lawson Wood (1957); C.L. Doughty (1985); Malcolm Douglas (2009)

Notable Events:

The Revolver Hallowe'en Tour descended on Odyssey 7, University Shopping Centre, Oxford Road, Manchester, in 1990.
Private Eye at 45 exhibition began, at the Cartoon Museum, London, in 2006.
Charlie Peace: His Amazing Life and Astounding Legend stage show premiere, at the Belgrade Theatre, in 2013. Eddie Campbell had a hand in the stage design, though the production wasn't connected to the long-running Buster strip.