On This Day: 19 Mar

Tornado (IPC Magazines Ltd.) #01 (24 Mar 1979).
Eagle (IPC Magazines Ltd.) vol.21 #01 (27 Mar 1982).
Scream (IPC Magazines Ltd.) #01 (24 Mar 1984).

First Appearances:

The Angry Planet in Tornado #01 (24 Mar 1979).
Captain Klep in Tornado #01 (24 Mar 1979).
Victor Drago in Tornado #01 (24 Mar 1979).
The Mind of Wolfie Smith in Tornado #01 (24 Mar 1979).
Wagner's Walk in Tornado #01 (24 Mar 1979).
The Collector in Eagle vol.21 #01 (27 Mar 1982).
Doomlord in Eagle vol.21 #01 (27 Mar 1982).
Ernie in Eagle vol.21 #01 (27 Mar 1982).
Sgt. Streetwise in Eagle vol.21 #01 (27 Mar 1982).
Mick Tempest (The Tower King) in Eagle vol.21 #01 (27 Mar 1982).
Thunderbolt and Smokey! in Eagle vol.21 #01 (27 Mar 1982).
The Dracula File in Scream #01 (24 Mar 1984).
Library of Death in Scream #01 (24 Mar 1984).
Monster in Scream #01 (24 Mar 1984).
Max (The Thirteenth Floor) in Scream #01 (24 Mar 1984).
Tales from the Grave in Scream #01 (24 Mar 1984).
The Terror of the Cats in Scream #01 (24 Mar 1984).
Frank Weitz (Armoured Gideon) in 2000 A.D. (Fleetway Publications) Prog 671 (24 Mar 1990).

Births:

Achille Beltrame (1871); Sep E. Scott (1879); William Blain (1903); Keith Waite (1927); Richard Williams (1933); Pasqual Ferry (1961); Simon Donald (1964)

Deaths:

Steve Dowling (1986); Johnny Hicklenton (2010)

Notable Events:

Jim Barker took voluntary redundancy to become a freelance artist in 1982.
The Sun published an attack on St. Swithin's Day in 1990. Failed politician Teddy "dial-a-quote" Taylor was on hand to offer his opinion on the comic, though it later transpired he hadn't even read the story.
Revolutionary War: Warheads (Marvel) #01 (Mar 2014) released in the US in 2014.
Cursed Edge – Prog 5 fan film released on YouTube in 2016.

On This Day: 30 Nov

Sexton Blake Annual 1942 replica (Bear Alley Books; 2012) ISBN-13: 9781907081651.

Judge Dredd: Crime Chronicles - Blood Will Tell by James Swallow (Big Finish Productions; 2009)

First Appearances:

Brassneck in The Dandy (D.C. Thomson & Co., Ltd.) #1202 (05 Dec 1964).
The Freedom Flyers in Warlord (D.C. Thomson & Co., Ltd.) #167 (03 Dec 1977).
Trask (Trash) in 2000 A.D. (Fleetway Publications) Prog 760 (07 Dec 1991).

Births:

Mark Lemon (1809); Norman Yendell Ward (1906); Gary Lineker (1960)

Deaths:

Compton Mackenzie (1972)

Notable Events:

The Mekons' first album, The Quality of Mercy Is Not Strnen, released by Virgin Records in 1979.
Paul 'Gamma' Gamble's funeral and wake - at The Abbey Tavern - took place in 2010. Forbidden Planet and Titan Distributor staff were in attendance.
A restored version of The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp was shown in London in 2011.
Jim Barker won the Rotsler Award, sponsored by the Southern California Institute for Fan Interests, in 2012.
An article in The Independent outlined the history of the speech balloon in comics in 2013.