On This Day: 07 Jan

Doctor Who Monthly (Marvel) #61 (1982). Peter Davison era begins
The Phoenix (David Fickling) #01 (2012).

Births:

Eric Roberts (1910); J.G. Raw (1913); Susan Butcher (1959)

Deaths:

Arthur Thomas Pask (1936); Basil Hone (2003)

Notable Events:

George Cansdale was a castaway on Desert Island Discs, on BBC Radio 4, in 1957.
Stan McMurtry's first cartoon appeared in Today in 1961.
Musical Swan Esther premièred at the Young Vic in 1984. Lyrics by Jack Edward Oliver.
On Eagle's Wings: British Adventure Comics, 1950-1969 exhibition began at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, in 2012.
An eight-page preview of The Phoenix was given away with The Times in 2012.
Striker newspaper strip resumed in The Sun in 2013.
Trog, Flook - and Humph too! exhibition began, at the Cartoon Museum, London, in 2013.
The stage adaptation of The Giant Beard That Was Evil began a run at Bristol Old Vic Studio in 2015.
Charlie Brooker was a castaway on Desert Island Discs, on BBC Radio 4, in 2018.

On This Day: 04 Oct

Victor and Warlord (D.C. Thomson & Co., Ltd.) #1338 (11 Oct 1986).

Births:

Sidney Edward Paget (1860); Basil Hone (1926)

Deaths:

Dino Battaglia (1983); Mike Butterworth (1986); Josè Maria Jorge (2010); Brian Williams (2010)

Notable Events:

Camille and her Boss newspaper strip began in The Daily Mirror in 1937.
The Crisis tour ended in SF Bookshop in Edinburgh in 1988, with Jim Baikie, Carlos Ezquerra, Igor Goldkind, Steve MacManus, Pat Mills and John Smith signing autographs.
Birmingham International Comics Show began in Birmingham in 2008.
Locomotive 57302, owned by Direct Rail Services, was renamed Chad Varah in 2012.