On This Day: 09 Nov

Doctor Who Christmas Special - The Six Doctors (Marvel; 1984]

Births:

Godfrey Douglas Giles (1857); Harry Parlett (1881); Simon Farr (1940); Luca Saponti (1985)

Deaths:

Leonard Matthews (1997); Terry Willers (2011)

Notable Events:

George du Maurier coined the term 'curate's egg' in a Punch cartoon entitled True Humility in 1895.
The infamous confrontation between Malcolm Muggeridge and John Cleese and Michael Palin, regarding the release of The Life of Brian, was broadcast as part of Friday Night, Saturday Morning, on BBC 2, in 1979.
Stan Lee began a signing tour at Forbidden Planet, 71 Oxford Street, London, in 1991.
Thought Bubble / The Leeds Sequential Art Festival began, at Leeds Town Hall, in 2007.
Comica Presents Grandville Bête Noire World Premiere, with Bryan and Mary Talbot in an interview with Kim Newman, took place, at Foyle's, Charing Cross Road, London, in 2012.
The Leeds Comic Art Festival began in 2015.

On This Day: 10 Oct

School Fun (IPC Magazines Ltd.) #01 (15 Oct 1983).
AARGH! (Artists Against Rampant Government Homophobia) #nn (Mad Love; 1988).
Stingray (Fleetway) #01 (10 Oct 1992-23 Oct 1992).
Marvel Heroes (Panini) #01 (Nov 2008).

First Appearances:

B'Ware Caretaker in School Fun #01 (15 Oct 1983).
Coronation Street School in School Fun #01 (15 Oct 1983).
Creepy Crawler in School Fun #01 (15 Oct 1983).
E.T.T. - Extra Terrestrial Teacher in School Fun #01 (15 Oct 1983).
Grange Hill Juniors in School Fun #01 (15 Oct 1983).
School Belle in School Fun #01 (15 Oct 1983).
Schoolditz in School Fun #01 (15 Oct 1983).
Softy Sir in School Fun #01 (15 Oct 1983).
Teachers United in School Fun #01 (15 Oct 1983).
Time Bus in School Fun #01 (15 Oct 1983).
Walt Teaser in School Fun #01 (15 Oct 1983).
Young Arfur in School Fun #01 (15 Oct 1983).
Wulf Stolberg (Stolberg in Battle) in Warlord (D.C. Thomson & Co., Ltd.) #525 (13 Oct 1984).

Births:

Helen Jacobs (1888); Leonard Matthews (1914); Peter Bellingham (Scooter McKenzie; 1967)

Deaths:

Les Gibbard (2010); Paul Brazier (2016)

Notable Events:

Jane newspaper strip ended in 1959.
Dennis Publishing Limited incorporated in 1973.
Hercules animated film, with designs by Gerald Scarfe, released in the UK in 1997.
€urobo££o©ks! exhibition began at the Cartoon Gallery in London in 2007.