On This Day: 22 Mar

Thundercats (Panini UK) #01 (22 Mar 2012-18 Apr 2012)

The World of Batman sticker album (Panini; 2016)

Births:

Gerard Hoffnung (1925); Brian Walker (1926); Lew Stringer (1959); Steve Dillon (1962)

Deaths:

Malcolm Douglas (2009)

Notable Events:

Buck Ryan newspaper strip began in The Daily Mirror in 1937.
Garth newspaper strip's final episode appeared in The Daily Mirror in 1943.
Kick-Ass feature film given a London première in 2010.
Liquidators were appointed for Pedigree Books in 2016.

On This Day: 12 Feb

Baptised in the Blood of Millions by David Britton (Savoy Books; 2001) ISBN-10: 0861301013

First Appearances:

Jack Smythe Soldier Smith) in Warlord (D.C. Thomson & Co., Ltd.) #21 (15 Feb 1975).
Peter Ryan (Ryan's Revenge) in Battle Picture Weekly (IPC Magazines Ltd.) #[50] (14 Feb 1976).
Angus McBride (The Boat) Warlord (D.C. Thomson & Co., Ltd.) #595 (15 Feb 1986).
Mike Rankin (The Boat) Warlord (D.C. Thomson & Co., Ltd.) #595 (15 Feb 1986).

Deaths:

Betty Roland (1996); E.W. Hildick (2001)

Notable Events:

The Hoffnung Music Festival was revived at the Royal Festival Hall, London in 1988.
Phoo Action, based on Get the Freebies, broadcast on BBC Three in 2008.
Revolutionary War: Death's Head II (Marvel) #01 (Feb 2014) released in the US in 2014.

On This Day: 14 Jan

Treasure #01 (19 Jan 1963).
Pow! (Odhams) #01 (21 Jan 1967).
Spike (D.C. Thomson & Co., Ltd.) #01 (22 Jan 1983)

Numbercruncher by Si Spurrier & P.J. Holden. (Titan Books; Jan 2014) ISBN-13: 978-1782760047.
Solid State Tank Girl by Alan Martin & Warwick Johnson-Cadwell. (Titan Books; Jan 2014) ISBN-13: 978-1782760030.

First Appearances:

Dare-a-Day Davy in Pow! #01 (21 Jan 1967).
The Dolls of St. Dominics in Pow! #01 (21 Jan 1967).
Wee Willie Haggis, the Spy from Skye in Pow! #01 (21 Jan 1967).
Sergeant Pilot Nick Ryder, Jungle Pilot in Warlord (D.C. Thomson & Co., Ltd.) #69 (17 Jan 1976).
The Bleak Street Bunch in Spike #01 (22 Jan 1983).
Squadron Leader 'Lucky' Layton in Spike #01 (22 Jan 1983).
Ticker Tait in Spike #01 (22 Jan 1983).

Births:

Anton Lock (1893); Ken Bulmer (1921); Mario Cubbino (1930); Colin Wyatt (1939); Frazer Irving

Deaths:

Arthur William à Beckett (1909)

Notable Events:

Leslie Illingworth's Daily Mail cartoon, published in 1944, attained immortality when found in the ruins of Hitler's
Chancellery.
Gerard Hoffnung was a castaway on Desert Island Discs, on BBC Radio 4, in 1957.
Television adverts promoting the launch of Look and Learn were broadcast on British television in 1961.
Michael Moorcock underwent emergency exploratory surgery in 2002 to remove blood clots.
Brett Ewins received a serious head injury from police officers during an altercation at his home in 2012.
Colin Wyatt's The Jet–Set books had an official launch at the Just Imagine Bookshop in Chelmsford in 2012. Profits from the books raise money for the Born Free Foundation animal charity.
The première of Kingsman: The Secret Service took place in London in 2015.

On This Day: 28 Nov

First Appearances:

Bonjo from Beyond the Stars in 2000 A.D. (IPC Magazines Ltd.) Prog 41 (03 Dec 1977).
Sgt. Grogan (Grogan's Guns) in Warlord (D.C. Thomson & Co., Ltd.) #271 (01 Dec 1979).
Pierre Lebec (Deathtrack!) in Warlord (D.C. Thomson & Co., Ltd.) #525 (13 Oct 1984).

Births:

Jack Le Grand (1919)

Deaths:

Enid Blyton (1968); Bill Thacker (2006)

Notable Events:

The Hoffnung Astronautical Music Festival took place at the Royal Festival Hall, London in 1961, two years after the death of Gerard Hoffnung.
The première of Carry On Up The Khyber took place in 1968 – the title sequence was designed by Larry (Terence Parkes).
Chris Donald took the first issue of Viz to get printed at the Tyneside Free Press in 1979.
Douglas Bader was a castaway on Desert Island Discs, on BBC Radio 4, in 1981.
Forbidden Planet 2 opened at 58 St. Giles High Street, London, in 1982. Despite claiming to focus on film and television memorabilia, it had a wide range of material - including copious SF novels.
The Gorillaz compilation album, The Singles Collection: 2001–2011, released in the UK in 2011.
Tom Gauld discussed Baking with Kafka with Paul Gravett at The British Library in 2017. After the talk he signed copies of his books and handed out badges.

On This Day: 22 Nov

Births:

Eric Eden (1924); Tim Beaumont (1928); Derek Pierson (1938)

Deaths:

Hugh McNeill (1979)

Notable Events:

The second day of the Hoffnung Interplanetary Music Festival took place at the Royal Festival Hall in 1958.
Alan Moore and Ian Gibson signed copies of collected editions of Halo Jones Book 3 and D.R. & Quinch's Guide to Life at the Forbidden Planet store in Denmark Street, London in 1986.

On This Day: 21 Nov

Births:

Sir Leslie Matthew Ward (Drawl, Spy; 1851); D.C. Thomson & Co., Ltd. chairman Brian Thomson (1918); Martin Aitchison (1919); Rich Johnston (1972)

Deaths:

Harold Underwood Thompson (H. Botterill; 1996)

Notable Events:

The Ally Sloper Manifesto published in 1885, where he set out his plans to stand for parliament as member for Shoe Lane and the Sloperies.
Tich newspaper strip began in The Daily Mirror in 1931.
The first day of the Hoffnung Interplanetary Music Festival took place at the Royal Festival Hall in 1958.
Pip, Squeak and Wilfred newspaper strip revived in The Daily Mirror in 1998.
A runaway trailer carrying steel beams crashed into the wall of D.C. Thomson's Guthrie Street printing plant in 2007. Thankfully there were no injuries.

On This Day: 13 Nov

First Appearances:

Squadron Leader 'Big' Dave Chandler (Y for Yellow Squadron) in Battle Picture Weekly (IPC Magazines Ltd.) #[37] (15 Nov 1975).
Commander Jordan Knight (Destroyer!) in Battle Picture Weekly (IPC Magazines Ltd.) #[37] (15 Nov 1975).
Brigadier-General Frank Merrill (Merrill's Marauders) in Battle Picture Weekly (IPC Magazines Ltd.) #[37] (15 Nov 1975).

Births:

John Byam Liston Shaw (1872); George William Wakefield (1887)

Deaths:

Rowland Emett (1990)

Notable Events:

The first Hoffnung Music Festival took place at the Royal Festival Hall, London in 1956.
Stan Lee continued his signing tour at Forbidden Planet, 129 Middlewalk, Broadmarsh Centre, Nottingham, in 1991.
Judge Dredd graced the cover of Time Out () #1108 (13 Nov 1991-20 Nov 1991).

There will be images, for example the Time Out cover, in the full version. These should be considered, after all, sneak peeks rather than completed pages.

On This Day: 03 Oct

Real Roy of the Rovers Stuff by Barrie Tomlinson (2016)

Births:

W. Howard Baker (1925); Sid Burgon (1936); Dave Follows (1941); Mark Wilkinson (1952)

Deaths:

George Belcher (1947); Frank Hoar (Acanthus; 1976); John Worsley (2000); George Thomson (2008); Ricardo Garijo (2009)

Notable Events:

Izzy and Dizzy newspaper strip ended in 1925.
Gerard Hoffnung's album At the Oxford Union entered the charts in 1960, and would continue to chart for another fourteen weeks.
Bananaman animated television series began on BBC in 1983.
John Smith forgot his ID while on the Crisis signing tour in Belfast in 1988. He had an understandably difficult time convincing authorities that John Smith was his real name...
May un Mar Lady newspaper strip ended in 2003.
The British International Comic Show began in Thinktank, Millennium Point, in Birmingham, in 2009.