On This Day: 22 Feb

Vulcan (IPC Magazines Ltd.) vol.1 #01
Topper 89 (D.C. Thomson & Co., Ltd.) #?? (25 Feb 1989).

Births:

Harold McCready (1897); John Bertram Musgrave-Wood (Emmwood; 1915); Andy Diggle (1971)

Deaths:

James H. Thorpe (1949); Victor Weisz (Vicky; 1966); Ernest Shaw (1986); Steve Whitaker (2008); John Cooper (2015)

Notable Events:

Gwilym Lloyd George, the Home Secretary, appeared at the dispatch box for the second reading of the Children and Young Persons (Harmful Publications) Act 1955 with a copy of Tales From The Crypt he had borrowed for the occasion.
Andy Capp television series began broadcast of its first – and only – series on ITV in 1988.
Denis Gifford and Bob Monkhouse looked back at British comics in A Hundred Laughs for a Ha'penny, broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in 1998.
The Perishers newspaper strip reprints began in The Daily Mirror in 2010.

On This Day: 21 Jan

Judge Dredd: The Mega Collection (Hachette Partworks Ltd.) #01 (2015) GN

First Appearances:

Judge Death in 2000 A.D. (IPC Magazines Ltd.) Prog 149 (26 Jan 1980)

Births:

Ernest Shaw (1891); Albert Lock (1893); Martin Sharp (1942)

Deaths:

Martin Honeysett (2015); Alessandro Biffignandi (2017)

Notable Events:

Notorious highwayman Claude Duval was executed at Tyburn in 1670.
Alan Coren was a castaway on Desert Island Discs, on BBC Radio 4, in 1978.
John Freeman's thoughts on the future of Marvel UK, published in 1993, is available online.
A special talk about Oor Wullie's Bucket Trail began Dundee University's Saturday Evening Lecture series in 2017. David Cunningham, chief executive of the ARCHIE Foundation, and Suzanne Scott, artistic coordinator of the trail, were present at the talk, which was chaired by Ellis Watson, CEO of DC Thomson.