On This Day: 08 Dec

Frontline UK (Bear Alley Books) GN (Dec 2014) ISBN-13: 9781907081767

First Appearances:

Lt. Dave Wilson (The Bombhunters) in Warlord (D.C. Thomson & Co., Ltd.) #116 (11 Dec 1976).
Mike Hobson (Hobson's Quest) in Warlord (D.C. Thomson & Co., Ltd.) #429 (11 Dec 1982).
Bad Company in 2000 A.D. (IPC Magazines Ltd.) Prog 500 (13 Dec 1986).

Births:

Tom Browne (1870); George William Smith (Gus; 1915); Les Barton (1923); David Myers (1925); Brett Ewins (1955)

Deaths:

Richard Newton (1798); Oliver Postgate (2008)

Notable Events:

Opening night of Any Old Thing, at the London Pavillion, in 1918. Written by Bruce Bairnsfather.
The feature film Press for Time released in the UK in 1966, based on the novel by Angus McGill.
Derek Fullarton was found dead at his home in Smart's Lane, Epping Forest, Essex, in 1968.
The Sunday Times featured a retrospective of Judge Dredd in the weekend section in 1991.

On This Day: 26 Nov

Warlord - Peter Flint Special (D.C. Thomson & Co., Ltd.) nn [1976].
Rammie (Comic Football) #01 (2009).

EuroTemps Edited by Alex Stewart & Neil Gaiman. (Penguin; 1992)

First Appearances:

The Urnaks are Coming! in The Victor (D.C. Thomson & Co., Ltd.) #93 (01 Dec 1962).

Births:

Angus McGill (1927)

Deaths:

Harold Sidney Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Rothermere (1940)

Notable Events:

London première of The Better 'Ole took place in 1926, starring Syd Chaplin as Old Bill.
Malcolm Muggeridge was a castaway on Desert Island Discs, on BBC Radio 4, in 1956.
Crash magazine ran a sixteen-page feature on the Judge Death computer game, including reprints of the Dredd strip the game was based on, plus a Judge Anderson pin-up by Brett Ewins, in 1987.
Clare in the Community radio series, based on the newspaper strip, began on BBC Radio 4 in 2004.
Borders (UK) Limited announced that they had gone into administration in 2009.
Bryan and Mary Talbot attended a signing event at Forbidden Planet, London, in 2014.
Sheffield Comic & Film Fair began in The Showroom, Paternoster Row, Sheffield, in 2016.

On This Day: 16 Oct

Red Dagger (D.C. Thomson & Co., Ltd.) #01 (Twisty) (Oct 1979).
Red Dagger (D.C. Thomson & Co., Ltd.) #02 (Tough of the Track) (Oct 1979).
Marvel Legends (Panini) vol.2 #01 (12 Nov 2014)

Judge Dredd: Apocalypse War by Paul Powell, based on the original scripts by John Wagner & Alan Grant (Random House; 1995)
From Hell - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack by Trevor Jones (2001)

First Appearances:

Albert Ross (The Cap that Carlo Wore) in The Victor (D.C. Thomson & Co., Ltd.) #35 (21 Oct 1961).
Charles Ross (The Cap that Carlo Wore) in The Victor (D.C. Thomson & Co., Ltd.) #35 (21 Oct 1961).
Trapper Fraser (Fraser's Vow) in Warlord (D.C. Thomson & Co., Ltd.) #578 (19 Oct 1985).

Births:

Edward Ardizzone (1900)

Deaths:

John R. Mason (1986); Angus McGill (2015)

Notable Events:

Jacqueline Wilson was a castaway on Desert Island Discs, on BBC Radio 4, in 2005.
The British International Comic Show began in Thinktank, Millennium Point, in Birmingham, in 2010.
The Lakes International Comic Art Festival began, in Kendal, Cumbria, in 2015.