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Showing posts with label Peter Weston. Show all posts
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Wednesday, January 23, 2019

On This Day: 23 Jan

World of Knowledge (IPC Magazines Ltd.) #01 (1980)

Births:

Gerald Swan (1902)

Deaths:

Robert Peacock (2009)

Notable Events:

The InnerCity 125 locomotive named David Austin - Cartoonist was unveiled in 2007.
The funeral for Peter Weston was held in 2017.

Saturday, January 5, 2019

On This Day: 05 Jan

Avengers Assemble (Panini Publications) vol.? #01 (01 Feb 2012).

Births:

John Bernard "J.B." Handelsman (1922); Kev Crossley

Deaths:

Eric W. Pasold (1978); Peter Weston (2017)

Notable Events:

Jimpy newspaper strip began in The Daily Mirror in 1946.
The first episode of A Whole Scene Going On, presented by Barry Fantoni, broadcast on the BBC in 1966.
Miracle Comics' American Eagle original stage show began at The Old Red Lion, St. John Street, London in 1988.
The Dan Dare exhibition at Bourne Hall, in Ewell, ended in 2002.
The Ballad of Halo Jones returned to the stage for a brief run of the play, as part of Thought Bubble, in 2012.

Friday, October 19, 2018

On This Day: 19 Oct

Victor and Champ (D.C. Thomson & Co., Ltd.) #1288 (26 Oct 1985).
Doctor Who Magazine Tenth Anniversary Special (Marvel Comics Ltd.; 1989).
Star Trek V: The Final Frontier: The Official Movie Magazine (Marvel Comics Ltd.; 1989).
Thunderbirds the Comic (Fleetway Publications) #01 (19 Oct 1991 - 01 Nov 1991).

Births:

Tom Taylor (1817); Tom Frame (1931); Peter Weston (1943); Philip Pullman (1946)

Deaths:

Alejandro Blasco (1988)

Notable Events:

The Perishers newspaper strip began in the London edition of The Daily Mirror in 1959.
Stan Lee began a series of British television radio and television appearances to promote Marvel UK in 1975.
Michael Ffolkes was a castaway on Desert Island Discs, on BBC Radio 4, in 1984.
Preston Speculative Fiction Group’s Bash Street 40th Birthday Bash held in 1993. John Coulthart filmed the event.
Hannah Berry, Paul Grist, Paul Gravett and Bryan Talbot attended a comic panel at the Manchester Literature Festival, which took place at the Whitworth Art Gallery, in 2008.