On This Day: 03 Mar

Tottering-by-Gently: In the Garden with the Totterings (Frances Lincoln; 2011) ISBN-13: 978-0711231856

Births:

Sir Edward Hulton, 1st Baronet (1869); Raymond Sheppard (1913); Ronald Searle (1920); Dino Leonetti (1937); Charlie Brooker (1971); David Fickling

Notable Events:

Crisis #39 (03 Mar 1990-16 Mar 1990) was published in conjunction with Amnesty International in 1990.
Leo Baxendale delivered his final I Love You, Baby Basil newspaper strip to The Guardian in 1992.
Neil Gaiman's adaptation of his and Dave McKean's The Tragical Comedy or Comical Tragedy of Mr. Punch was broadcast on BBC Radio 3 in 2005.
Mirrormask released in the UK in 2006.
The third Gorillaz studio album, Plastic Beach, was released in the UK in 2010.
Comic Empire event began at the Royal National Hotel, Bedford Way, London, in 2013.
Bryan and Mary Talbot signing at Inky Fingers, Cowley Road, Oxford, in 2018.

Crisis

2000 A.D. Presents

18 Sep 1988 - Oct 1991 (63 issues)
Fleetway Publications.

Edited by Steve McManus [#01 - #49]
Edited by Steve McManus & Michael W. Bennent [#50 - #52]
Edited by Michael W. Bennent [#53 - #63]

01 (17 Sep 1988 - 30 Sep 1988; cover price 65p) Third World War and New Statesmen strips begin.

02 (01 Oct 1988 - 14 Oct 1988)

03 (15 Oct 1998 - 28 Oct 1988)

04 (29 Oct 1998 - 11 Nov 1988)

05 (12 Nov 1988 - 25 Nov 1988)

06 (26 Nov 1988 - 09 Dec 1988)

07 (10 Dec 1988 - 23 Dec 1988)

08 (24 Dec 1988 - 06 Jan 1989)

09 (07 Jan 1989 - 20 Jan 1989)

10 (21 Jan 1989 - 03 Feb 1989)

11 (04 Feb 1989 - 17 Feb 1989)

12 (18 Feb 1989 - 03 Mar 1989)

13 (04 Feb 1989 - 17 Mar 1989)

14 (18 Mar 1989 - 31 Mar 1989)

15 (01 Apr 1989 - 14 Apr 1989) Free stickers. Sticky Fingers and Troubled Souls begin. Artoon full-color pin-ups begin.

16 (15 Apr 1989 - 28 Apr 1989) Free stickers.

17 (29 Apr 1989 - 12 May 1989) Free stickers.

18 (13 May 1989 - 26 May 1989)

19 (27 May 1989 - 09 Jun 1989)

20 (10 Jun 1989 - 23 Jun 1989) To Serve and Protect complete strip.

21 (24 Jun 1989 - 07 Jul 1989) The Geek complete strip.

22 (08 Jul 1989 - 21 Jul 1989)

23 (22 Jul 1989 - 04 Aug 1989)

24 (05 Aug 1989 - 18 Aug 1989)

25 (19 Aug 1989 - 01 Sep 1989)

26 (02 Sep 1989 - 15 Sep 1989)

27 (16 Sep 1989 - 29 Sep 1989)

28 (30 Sep 1989 - 13 Oct 1989; cover price becomes 75p) The Crooked Mile begins. The Student Konstabel and Angels Amongst Us complete strips.

29 (14 Oct 1989 - 27 Oct 1989)

30 (28 Oct 1989 - 10 Nov 1989)

31 (11 Nov 1989 - 24 Nov 1989) Her Parents complete strip.

32 (25 Nov 1989 - 08 Dec 1989)

33 (09 Dec 1989 - 22 Dec 1989)

34 (23 Dec 1989 - 05 Jan 1990) Squirrels in Carroll Street complete strip.

35 (06 Jan 1990 - 19 Jan 1990)

36 (20 Jan 1990 - 02 Feb 1990)

37 (03 Feb 1990 - 16 Feb 1990) Banged Up complete strip.

38 (17 Feb 1990 - 02 Mar 1990)

39 (03 Mar 1990 - 16 Mar 1990; cover price becomes £1.00) The Death Factory, A Kind of Madness and A Day in the Life complete strips.

40 (17 Mar 1990 - 30 Mar 1990) Reflexions strip begins. Murky Waters complete strip.

41 (31 Mar 1990 - 13 Apr 1990) Brighton Gas and C-Rap complete strips.

42 (14 Apr 1990 - 27 Apr 1990) China in Crisis begins. Passion and Fire and Faceless complete strips.

43 (28 Apr 1990 - 11 May 1990) The Ballad of Andrew Brown complete strip.

44 (12 May 1990 - 26 May 1990) Try a Little Tenderness, Masters of Disguise and The Farmer and the Soldier complete strips.

45 (26 May 1990 - 08 Jun 1990)

46 (09 Jun 1990 - 22 Jun 1990) The New Adventures of Hitler begins.

47 (23 Jun 1990 - 06 Jul 1990) Felicity complete strip.

48 (07 Jul 1990 - 20 Jul 1990)

49 (21 Jul 1990 - 31 Jul 1990)

50 (Sep 1990; cover price £1.75) Monthly schedule begins. No Messing with Rupert and Straightgate complete strips.

51 (Oct 1990)

52 (Nov 1990) Vroom and Sinner begin.

53 (Dec 1990) The School complete strip.

54 (Jan 1991) Insiders begins.

55 (Feb 1991)

56 (Mar 1991) The Real Robin Hood, Bible John: a Forensic Meditation and Happenstance and Kismet begin. Dare conclusion from the cancelled Revolver.

57 (Apr 1991) Russia: The Tragedy and the Farce text feature by Tony Allan.

58 (May 1991)

59 (Jun 1991)

60 (Jul 1991)

61 (Aug 1991)

62 (Sep 1991)

63 (Oct 1991)

On This Day: 04 Oct

Victor and Warlord (D.C. Thomson & Co., Ltd.) #1338 (11 Oct 1986).

Births:

Sidney Edward Paget (1860); Basil Hone (1926)

Deaths:

Dino Battaglia (1983); Mike Butterworth (1986); Josè Maria Jorge (2010); Brian Williams (2010)

Notable Events:

Camille and her Boss newspaper strip began in The Daily Mirror in 1937.
The Crisis tour ended in SF Bookshop in Edinburgh in 1988, with Jim Baikie, Carlos Ezquerra, Igor Goldkind, Steve MacManus, Pat Mills and John Smith signing autographs.
Birmingham International Comics Show began in Birmingham in 2008.
Locomotive 57302, owned by Direct Rail Services, was renamed Chad Varah in 2012.