On This Day: 04 Mar

Whoopee! (IPC Magazines Ltd.) #01 (09 Mar 1974).

First Appearances:

Ad Lad in Whoopee! #01 (09 Mar 1974).
The Bumpkin Billionaires in Whoopee! #01 (09 Mar 1974).
Daisy Jones' Locket in Whoopee! #01 (09 Mar 1974).
Ernie Learner in Whoopee! #01 (09 Mar 1974).
Little Miss Muffit in Whoopee! #01 (09 Mar 1974).
Lunchin' Vulture in Whoopee! #01 (09 Mar 1974).
Snap Happy in Whoopee! #01 (09 Mar 1974).
Stoker-Ship's Cat in Whoopee! #01 (09 Mar 1974).
Toy Boy in Whoopee! #01 (09 Mar 1974).
The Wolf Pack in Whoopee! #01 (09 Mar 1974).

Births:

Thomas Tegg (1776); John Ryan (1921); Peter Jackson (1922); Glen Baxter (1944); Simon Bisley (1962)

Deaths:

Sidney Conrad Strube (1956); Salvatore Deidda (1990); Camillo Zuffi (2002)

Notable Events:

The Universe and Eye: of Man and New Science by Timothy Ferris & Ingram Pinn published by Pavilion Books in 1993.
Dennis the Menace paid a visit to The One Show, to celebrate Comic Relief, in 2011.
An episode of What Do Artists Do All Day?, featuring Frank Quitely, was broadcast on BBC2 in 2014.

On This Day: 02 Jan

Batman: Arkham (Titan Comics) #01 (2014)

Births:

Salvatore Deidda (1953)

Deaths:

H.O. Batho (1932); Edmund George Valpy Knox (Evoe; 1971); Charles Chilton (2013)

Notable Events:

Patsy... newspaper strip ended in 1953.
Sir Osbert Lancaster married Anne Scott-James in 1967.
Studs newspaper strip ended in 1982.
Bryan and Mary Talbot won the Costa Biography Award for Dotter of Her Father's Eyes in 2013, the first graphic novel to win the award.