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Sunday, April 21, 2019

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.

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