On This Day: 21 Apr

Buster (Fleetway Publications) # (21 Apr 1990). [relaunch]

First Appearances:

Mike Morgan (A Case of Death) in Warlord (D.C. Thomson & Co., Ltd.) #83 (24 Apr 1976).
Judge Hershey in 2000 A.D. (IPC Magazines Ltd.) Prog 162 (26 Apr 1980).

Births:

Len Fullerton (1909); Jim Bambra (1956)

Deaths:

Thomas Rowlandson (1827); Thomas Tegg (1845); Sir Francis Cowley Burnand (1917); Bernard Venables (2001)

Notable Events:

Lee Sullivan and John Tomlinson attended an Absolom Daak-Dalek Killer signing at Forbidden Planet, 168 Buchannan Street, Glasgow, in 1990.
Bristow radio series, based on the newspaper strip, began on BBC Radio 4 in 1999.
Rebellion's Rogue Trooper computer game for PS2, Xbox and Windows released in 2006.
Rick Brookes' cartoon of Prof. Stephen Hawking in The Metro received complaints in 2009.
The Spring Comica Comiket comic fair began at Bishopgate Institute in London in 2012.

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.