On This Day: 12 Oct

Gerry Anderson's New Captain Scarlet (GE Magazines) #01 (2005).
Beano Christmas Special 2016 (D.C. Thomson & Co., Ltd.; 2016].

Zero (Dennis Publishing Ltd. / Felden Productions) #1 (Nov 1989) magazine

Durham Red: The Unquiet Grave by Peter J. Evans (Black Flame; Sep 2004) ISBN-10: 1 84416 159 5

Births:

Dan Abnett (1965); Luke Pearson (1987)

Deaths:

Charles Henry Ross (1897)

Notable Events:

Patti newspaper strip began in The Daily Mirror in 1959.
The world première of the feature film documentary For No Good Reason, about Ralph Steadman, took place at the 2012 London Film Festival.