On This Day: 15 Jan

Bunty (D.C. Thomson & Co., Ltd.) #01 (1958).
Sparky (D.C. Thomson & Co., Ltd.) #01 (1965).
Joe 90 (City Magazines) #01 (18 Jan 1969).
Look and Learn (Fleetway Publications Ltd.) #01.
Blue Jeans (D.C. Thomson & Co., Ltd.) #01.
The Astonishing Spider-Man (Panini UK) vol.5 #01 (28 Jan 2015)

Greatest Hits #01 (1981)
LM (Newsfield) #01 (1987)

Births:

Ian Dickson (1905); Robert Geary (1931); Michael Daley (1944)

Deaths:

Alfred Edmeades Bestall (1986); Andrew Hutton (2015)

Notable Events:

A cutting of a Ronald Niebour Daily Mail cartoon, published in 1944, was found in the ruins of Hitler's Chancellery.
Look and Learn went on sale in 1961, amid the most thorough promotional launch given to such a title.
The Beano–Dandy Story, the third episode of the 11th season of documentary series Arena, was broadcast in 1988.
The lawsuit between Fox and Warner Bros. was resolved in 2009, allowing the Watchmen film adaptation to be released.
The first episode of original television series Utopia broadcast on Channel 4 in 2013. The series owed a great deal to comics in both its' narrative and visual style.
Revolutionary War: Dark Angel (Marvel) #01 (Jan 2014) released in the US in 2014.

On This Day: 14 Dec

2000 A.D. (Rebellion) Prog 2006 (2005).
The X-Files Special Edition (Manga Publishing Ltd.) magazine (1995).

St. Trinian's 2: The Legend of Fritton's Gold Original Soundtrack (2009)

First Appearances:

Sgt. Bob Grant (Guerilla Grant) in Warlord (D.C. Thomson & Co., Ltd.) #482 (17 Dec 1983).

Births:

Alfred Edmeades Bestall (1892); Jack Prout (1900); Ruth Adam (1907); Harry Hanan (1916); Anthony Masters (1940)

Deaths:

Dick Ericson (1988)

Notable Events:

Douglas Bader crashed at Woodley Airfield, while attempting low-flying manouvers, in 1931. His surgeon, J. Leonard Joyce, would amputate his legs (one above, and one below the knee) in the emergency surgery required to save his life.
Judge Dredd made an appearance at the Strange Days Comic Shop, 9A The Parade, Northgate, Croydon, in 1991.
Girl Chat newspaper strip began in The Daily Mirror in 1992.
John Brown questioned in 1989 by Anti–Terrorist Branch about a Top Tip printed in Viz #38.