On This Day: 22 Jan

First Appearances:

Drake of E-Boat Alley in Warlord (D.C. Thomson & Co., Ltd.) #18 (25 Jan 1975).
The Stuarts of Stalingrad in Warlord (D.C. Thomson & Co., Ltd.) #18 (25 Jan 1975).
Gunner Kite The Soldier and the Samurai! in Warlord (D.C. Thomson & Co., Ltd.) #179 (25 Jan 1978).
Lieutenant Moto The Soldier and the Samurai! in Warlord (D.C. Thomson & Co., Ltd.) #179 (25 Jan 1978).
Storm Force in Battle (IPC Magazines Ltd.) #?? (?? Jan 1987).
Bix Barton, Master of the Rum and Uncanny in 2000 A.D Prog 663 (27 Jan 1990).

Births:

Walter Bell (1893); Kimon Evan Marengo (KEM; 1904)

Deaths:

Carlo Pellegrini (Ape; 1889); Patten Wilson (1934)

Notable Events:

Romeo Brown newspaper strip ended in 1962.
The first episode of the original television series Stan Lee's Lucky Man broadcast on Sky 1 in 2016.

On This Day: 04 Nov

Batman/Judge Dredd: Die Laughing (Egmont Fleetway Limited) Book Two (1998)

Births:

Sydney J. Bounds (1920)

Deaths:

Kimon Evan Marengo (KEM; 1988); John Gillatt (2016)

Notable Events:

Stanley Franklin celebrated becoming editorial cartoonist at The Sun, in 1974, by depicting himself bombing the Houses of Parliament.
Thirty Years of Viz exhibition began in the Cartoon Museum, London in 2009.
The Unknown Terry Challis exhibition began in Watford Museum’s Space2 Gallery in 2010.