On This Day: 27 Feb

Red Dwarf Magazine (Fleetway Editions Ltd.) vol.1 #01 (Mar 1992)

The Blob Books:
Ghostly White      Inky Black        Poppy Red
Puppy Purple       Rainbow Blob      Sailor Blue
(D.C. Thomson & Co., Ltd.; 1981)
Anderson, PSI Division: Sins of the Father by Mitchel Scanlon. (Black Library; Feb 2007) ISBN-10: 1 84416 456 X.
Fiends of the Rising Sun by David Bishop. (Black Flame; Feb 2007) ISBN-10: 1 84416 455 1

Births:

Elliott O'Donnell (1872); Harry Banger (1897); Dudley D. Watkins (1907); Helen McCarthy (1951)

Deaths:

John Arbuthnot (1735); Dennis Castle (1993)

Notable Events:

The Flutters newspaper strip ended in 1947.
Fleetway Editions celebrated 2000 A.D.'s 15th anniversary with Panic in the Year Zero: Dancing Towards the Apocalypse (which began at 10pm, running until 3am) at The Camden Palace, London, in 1992. Chris Coco, Crusher, Mark Moore and Roxilla provided the music, while art and script droids provided the Thrill-Power. All proceeds of the event were donated to Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital.

On This Day: 14 Feb

Valentine's Day

Shockwave (London Editions Magazines) #01 (1991)

Births:

Bernard Venables (1907); Anthony J. Bryant (1961); Roger Langridge (1967)

Deaths:

James Crighton (1962); Dennis Castle (1993)

Notable Events:

Tiger Tim made his first comic–book appearance in 1914 after starring in Victorian supplements.
Tik and Tok newspaper strip began in The Daily Mirror in 1925.
William Davis was a castaway on Desert Island Discs, on BBC Radio 4, in 1988.
The Hi-Ex comics convention began, at Eden Court, Bishop's Road, Inverness, in 2009.