On This Day: 16 Feb

Nikki (D.C. Thomson & Co., Ltd.) #01 (23 Feb 1985).
Comic Relief Comic (Fleetway Publications; 1991).

Judge Dredd: Wetworks by Dave Stone. (Virgin Publishing; Feb 1995) ISBN-10: 0352329750.

First Appearances:

Sergeant Mike Mason (Hit and Run!) in Warlord (D.C. Thomson & Co., Ltd.) #126 (19 Feb 1977).
Fludd (The Dead) in 2000 A.D. (IPC Magazines Ltd.) Prog 510 (21 Feb 1987).

Births:

John Worsley (1919); Carol Baker (1938); Warren Ellis (1968); Ron Wilson

Deaths:

Norman Pett (1960); Alfred Mazure (1974); Sheridan Morley (2007); Brett Ewins (2015); Mick O'Connor (2015)

Notable Events:

Ernest Howard Shepard was made an acting captain in the Royal Garrison Artillery, while second-in-command of a siege battery, in 1917.
Liquidators were appointed for The Cardal Publishing Company Limited in 1951.
The Comic Relief Comic went on sale in 1991. Uniting characters from a number of companies (from television as well as comics), for the first (and, predictably, last) time in the name of charity. Things didn't exactly go to plan, and a hoped-for second printing wasn't made available for Comic Relief's big day.
The Commando website was officially launched in 2011, with information on the hardware featured in each issue along with other interactive elements.
Facebook suspended the official Viz page in 2016, only to reinstate it later in the day with a halfhearted apology.

On This Day: 05 Dec

First Appearances:

Jane Gay in newspaper strip.

Births:

Betty Larom (1920); Sheridan Morley (1941); Gary Smith (1963)

Deaths:

Jack Trevor Story (1991)

Notable Events:

Jane's Journal - The Diary of a Bright Young Thing newspaper strip began in The Daily Mirror in 1932.
Sebastian Melmoth II, the author of Do What the F**k I Say, was revealed to be Felix Dennis in 2013.