On This Day: 10 Feb

Spider-Man Comics Weekly (Magazine Management London Ltd.) #01 (17 Feb 1973).

Births:

Bernard Greenbaum (1917); Scoular Anderson (1946)

Deaths:

Charlie Pease (1964); Walter Robertson (1983); Mel Calman (1994)

Notable Events:

The Perishers newspaper strip began in the Northern edition of The Daily Mirror in 1958.
The first episode of Grandpa in my Pocket broadcast on CBeebies in 2009. Although unrelated, it shared a premise with D.C. Thomson & Co., Ltd.'s Peter's Pocket Grandpa.

On This Day: 03 Feb

Fantastic and Terrific (Odhams) #01

Births:

Charlie Pease (1905); Mary Cathcart Borer (1906); Eric Burgin (1926)

Deaths:

Ruth Adam (1977)

Notable Events:

Marvelman #25 and Young Marvelman #25 (the first issues starring the titular characters) were published in 1954, the characters having appeared in the titles in the preceding issues to make the change–over from Fawcett reprints less abrupt.
Punch published the controversial "Man Goeth Forth Unto His Work And To His Labour Until The Evening" cartoon in 1954.
Both Marvelman and Young Marvelman dropped to monthly schedules and began reprints in their titles cover–dated this day in 1960. Just three years later the characters would find flung into publishing limbo...
Forbidden Planet (Scotland) Limited incorporated in 1988.