On This Day: 21 Apr

Buster (Fleetway Publications) # (21 Apr 1990). [relaunch]

First Appearances:

Mike Morgan (A Case of Death) in Warlord (D.C. Thomson & Co., Ltd.) #83 (24 Apr 1976).
Judge Hershey in 2000 A.D. (IPC Magazines Ltd.) Prog 162 (26 Apr 1980).

Births:

Len Fullerton (1909); Jim Bambra (1956)

Deaths:

Thomas Rowlandson (1827); Thomas Tegg (1845); Sir Francis Cowley Burnand (1917); Bernard Venables (2001)

Notable Events:

Lee Sullivan and John Tomlinson attended an Absolom Daak-Dalek Killer signing at Forbidden Planet, 168 Buchannan Street, Glasgow, in 1990.
Bristow radio series, based on the newspaper strip, began on BBC Radio 4 in 1999.
Rebellion's Rogue Trooper computer game for PS2, Xbox and Windows released in 2006.
Rick Brookes' cartoon of Prof. Stephen Hawking in The Metro received complaints in 2009.
The Spring Comica Comiket comic fair began at Bishopgate Institute in London in 2012.

On This Day: 21 Oct

Battle Picture Weekly and Valiant (IPC Magazines Ltd.) #[86] (23 Oct 1976)

Zenith: Phase One (Rebellion; 2014)
Private Eye Annual 2016 edited by Ian Hislop. (Private Eye Productions Ltd.; 2016) ISBN-13: 978-1901784640.

Judge Dredd: Dreddlocked by Stephen Marley. (Virgin Publishing; Oct 1993) ISBN-10: 0 35232 875 4.

Births:

Arthur Wallis Mills (1876); Geoffrey Boycott (1940); Janet Ahlberg (1944); Diego Jourdan (1977)

Deaths:

Jesús Blasco (1995); Dave Gibson (2015)

Notable Events:

The Elvis Presley Story newspaper strip ended in 1977.
Alf Omega Potter began work on his first comic, based on Marvel characters, in 1978, at the age of thirteen.
Artists Dave Gibbons and Lee Sullivan attended a Doctor Who Magazine tenth anniversary, signing held at The Cafe Munchen, St. Giles High Street, London, in 1989. Also in attendance was Target cover artist Alister Pearson.
Eddie Gorecki and Jonathan Stanesby scaled the Royal Courts of Justice dressed as Batman and Robin in 2003.