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Sunday, March 24, 2019

On This Day: 24 Mar

The A-Team Spring Special (Marvel) #02 (1986).
Fraggle Rock Spring Special (Marvel) #nn (1986).
Get Along Gang Spring Special (Marvel) Collected Comics #02 (1986).
Secret Wars II Spring Special (Marvel) #01 (1986).
Transformers Spring Special (Marvel) Collected Comics #3 (1986).
Zoids Spring Special (Marvel) Collected Comics #01 (1986).
Team Toxic Classic Comic Collection in Toxic (Egmont) #159 (2010).

The Adventures of Meng and Ecker by David Britton. (Savoy Books; 1997)
Horror Panegyric by Keith Seward. (Savoy Books; 2008) ISBN-13: 978-0861301188.

Births:

Malcolm Muggeridge (1903); Glenn Fabry (1961); Steve Pugh (1966)

Deaths:

Ernest Howard Shepard (1976)

Notable Events:

The Greens newspaper strip ended in 1990.
Alan Grant, Simon Jacob, David Roach and John Tomlinson took part in a 2000 A.D. signing session at Forbidden Planet, 5 Duke Street, Cardiff, in 1990.

Saturday, February 16, 2019

On This Day: 16 Feb

Nikki (D.C. Thomson & Co., Ltd.) #01 (23 Feb 1985).
Comic Relief Comic (Fleetway Publications; 1991).

Judge Dredd: Wetworks by Dave Stone. (Virgin Publishing; Feb 1995) ISBN-10: 0352329750.

First Appearances:

Sergeant Mike Mason (Hit and Run!) in Warlord (D.C. Thomson & Co., Ltd.) #126 (19 Feb 1977).
Fludd (The Dead) in 2000 A.D. (IPC Magazines Ltd.) Prog 510 (21 Feb 1987).

Births:

John Worsley (1919); Carol Baker (1938); Warren Ellis (1968); Ron Wilson

Deaths:

Norman Pett (1960); Alfred Mazure (1974); Sheridan Morley (2007); Brett Ewins (2015); Mick O'Connor (2015)

Notable Events:

Ernest Howard Shepard was made an acting captain in the Royal Garrison Artillery, while second-in-command of a siege battery, in 1917.
Liquidators were appointed for The Cardal Publishing Company Limited in 1951.
The Comic Relief Comic went on sale in 1991. Uniting characters from a number of companies (from television as well as comics), for the first (and, predictably, last) time in the name of charity. Things didn't exactly go to plan, and a hoped-for second printing wasn't made available for Comic Relief's big day.
The Commando website was officially launched in 2011, with information on the hardware featured in each issue along with other interactive elements.
Facebook suspended the official Viz page in 2016, only to reinstate it later in the day with a halfhearted apology.

Monday, December 10, 2018

On This Day: 10 Dec

St. Trinians: the Soundtrack (2007)

Births:

Ernest Howard Shepard (1879); Richard Doyle (1883); Reginald Ben Davis (1907); Roy F. Brown (1921); Severino Baraldi (1930); Alan Fennell (1936)

Deaths:

Roland Davies (1993); Alan Fennell (2001); John Berry (2009)

Notable Events:

The Pater newspaper strip began in The Daily Mirror in 1928.
Viz was officially launched, at the Gosforth Hotel, in 1979.
St. Trinians feature film, of Ronald Searle's characters, released in 2007.
The Canny Comic Con, at Newcastle's City Library, began in 2011.