On This Day: 15 Dec

First Appearances:

Sergeant Joe Bannon (Death Wish) in Valiant (IPC Magazines Ltd.) #[???] (20 Dec 1975).
Det. Jack McBane, One-Eyed Jack in Valiant (IPC Magazines Ltd.) #[???] (20 Dec 1975).
Al Bestardi (Al's Baby) in Judge Dredd The Megazine (Fleetway Publications) vol.1 #4 (Jan 1991).

Births:

Kody Chamberlain (1972)

Notable Events:

The Who Sell Out record released in 1967, with a cover by Roger Law.
A sneak-preview of the Batman computer game was featured on the cover-mounted cassette with Crash #60 (Jan 1989).
The Non–Savvy, Non–Commuter by Asia Alfasi displayed in Piccadilly Circus Underground station in 2006, as part of the "Think Cities" project which celebrated 100 years of the Piccadilly Line.
Bananaman musical began a limited run at the Southwark Playhouse, Newington Causeway, London, in 2017.

On This Day: 03 Oct

Real Roy of the Rovers Stuff by Barrie Tomlinson (2016)

Births:

W. Howard Baker (1925); Sid Burgon (1936); Dave Follows (1941); Mark Wilkinson (1952)

Deaths:

George Belcher (1947); Frank Hoar (Acanthus; 1976); John Worsley (2000); George Thomson (2008); Ricardo Garijo (2009)

Notable Events:

Izzy and Dizzy newspaper strip ended in 1925.
Gerard Hoffnung's album At the Oxford Union entered the charts in 1960, and would continue to chart for another fourteen weeks.
Bananaman animated television series began on BBC in 1983.
John Smith forgot his ID while on the Crisis signing tour in Belfast in 1988. He had an understandably difficult time convincing authorities that John Smith was his real name...
May un Mar Lady newspaper strip ended in 2003.
The British International Comic Show began in Thinktank, Millennium Point, in Birmingham, in 2009.