On This Day: 17 Dec

2000 A.D. (Rebellion) Prog 2004 (2003).

First Appearances:

Gaunt in Eagle and Scream! (IPC Magazines Ltd.) #144 (22 Dec 1984).

Births:

Cyril Kenneth Bird (Fougasse; 1887); Neville Colvin (1918); Jacqueline Wilson (1945); Elena Casagrande (1983)

Deaths:

Notable Events:

Bill Tidy was the subject of the BBC television show This Is Your Life in 1975.
Modesty Blaise: A Taste of Death radio adaptation began on the "15 Minute Drama" slot on BBC Radio 4 in 2012, featuring the voices of Daphne Alexander, Alun Armstrong, and Carl Prekopp. The series ran for five fifteen minute episodes.

On This Day: 16 Oct

Red Dagger (D.C. Thomson & Co., Ltd.) #01 (Twisty) (Oct 1979).
Red Dagger (D.C. Thomson & Co., Ltd.) #02 (Tough of the Track) (Oct 1979).
Marvel Legends (Panini) vol.2 #01 (12 Nov 2014)

Judge Dredd: Apocalypse War by Paul Powell, based on the original scripts by John Wagner & Alan Grant (Random House; 1995)
From Hell - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack by Trevor Jones (2001)

First Appearances:

Albert Ross (The Cap that Carlo Wore) in The Victor (D.C. Thomson & Co., Ltd.) #35 (21 Oct 1961).
Charles Ross (The Cap that Carlo Wore) in The Victor (D.C. Thomson & Co., Ltd.) #35 (21 Oct 1961).
Trapper Fraser (Fraser's Vow) in Warlord (D.C. Thomson & Co., Ltd.) #578 (19 Oct 1985).

Births:

Edward Ardizzone (1900)

Deaths:

John R. Mason (1986); Angus McGill (2015)

Notable Events:

Jacqueline Wilson was a castaway on Desert Island Discs, on BBC Radio 4, in 2005.
The British International Comic Show began in Thinktank, Millennium Point, in Birmingham, in 2010.
The Lakes International Comic Art Festival began, in Kendal, Cumbria, in 2015.