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.

On This Day: 06 Oct

Captain Britain (Marvel Comics Ltd.) vol.1 #01 (13 Oct 1976).
The Ren & Stimpy Show (Marvel Comics) #01 (19 Oct 1994).

Doctor Who: The Age of Chaos (Marvel Comics; 1994)
Rick Random: Space Detective: 10 Classic Interplanetary Comic Book Adventures edited by Steve Holland. (Prion Books; 2008)
Arena (Bear Alley Books; Oct 2014) ISBN-13: 9781907081750
Wallace and Gromit: The Complete Newspaper Comic Strips Collection Vol.4 (Titan Comics; 2015) ISBN-10: 1782762051.
The Daily Dredds Vol.2: 1986-1989 by John Wagner & Alan Grant, Ian Gibson, Barry Kitson, Steve Dillon and Mike Collins. (Rebellion; Oct 2016) ISBN 978-1781-08459-5
Mega-City Undercover Vol.3 by Rob Williams, Andy Diggle, D'Israeli and Ben Willsher. (Rebellion; Oct 2016) ISBN 978-1781-08458-8

First Appearances:

Captain Britain (Brian Braddock) in Captain Britain vol.1 #01 (13 Oct 1976).
Harrier Squadron in Warlord (D.C. Thomson & Co., Ltd.) #419 (09 Oct 1982).
The Keeper (Timespell) in Eagle (IPC Magazines Ltd.) #238 (11 Oct 1986).
Hewligan's Haircut in 2000 A.D. (Fleetway Publications) Prog 700 (13 Oct 1990).
Bertie Sharp (Time Flies) in 2000 A.D. (Fleetway Publications) Prog 700 (13 Oct 1990).

Births:

Hugh Stanley White (1904); Clifford Meadway (1921); Ron Embleton (1930); Tony Greig (1946)

Deaths:

Leonard Cottrell (1974); James Austin Sillavan (JAS; 2013); Mike Tomkies (2016)

Notable Events:

Philip Pullman was a castaway on Desert Island Discs, on BBC Radio 4, in 2002.