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: 23 Nov

First Appearances:

Dagger Man in Warlord (D.C. Thomson & Co., Ltd.) #166 (26 Nov 1977).

Births:

Neville Main (1913); Charles Grigg (1916); Harley Lawrence Schwadron (1942); Sandra Marrs (1973)

Deaths:

Graham Laidler (Pont; 1940); Dorothy Craigie (1971); Dennis Mallet (1988); Lilli Ursula Barbara Victoria Davidson (Victoria; 1999)

Notable Events:

Eve newspaper strip began in The Daily Sketch in 1953.
Juvenile Publications were moved from 161–166 Fleet Street to the old Daily Herald building at 96 Longacre in 1963.
Alan McKenzie, Mark Millar, Grant Morrison, Sean Philips, John Smith and Steve Yeowell attended a joint 2000 A.D. / Judge Dredd The Megazine signing at Mike Conroy's The Edge of Forever, 82B Broadway, Bexley Heath, Kent, in 1991. Judge Dredd was also in attendance.
Alan Moore's Outbreaks of Violets, a set of 24 cards with art by a variety of European artists, was given away at the 1995 MTV Europe Music Awards.
Thought Bubble Comic Con, the Leeds Sequential Art Festival, began at Clarence Dock, Leeds, in 2013.
Peter Firmin received a special lifetime honour at the BAFTA Children's Awards in 2014.
Dan Dare: A Brief History video uploaded to YouTube in 2016 to celebrate the launch of the B7 Media / Big Finish audio adventures.