On This Day: 24 Nov

Hammer Horror Collector's Special (Marvel Comics UK Ltd.) #01 (1994).
The Flash: Rebirth (Titan) #01 (2016).

Births:

Dudley Pout (1908); Walter Goetz (1911); Horacio Altuna (1941); Vic Neill (1941); Ian Botham (1955)

Notable Events:

The Bystander magazine published Bruce Bairnsfather's original "Better 'Ole" cartoon in 1915.
Richard Ingrams married his first wife, Mary Morgan, in 1962.
A Michael Cummings cartoon attacking trade unions, published in The Daily Express in 1971, brought a complaint from the printing union.
Barry Humphries was a castaway on Desert Island Discs, on BBC Radio 4, in 1973.

On This Day: 09 Oct

2000 A.D. and Starlord (IPC Magazines Ltd.) Prog 86 (14 Oct 1978).

Births:

Roy Davis (1921); Bill Tidy (1933); Jim Starlin (1949)

Deaths:

Michael Cummings (Arthur Stuart Michael Cummings; 1997); Ian Gammidge (2005); Bob Bartholomew (2013)

Notable Events:

Action (IPC Magazines Ltd.) #36 (16 Oct 1976) became the last issue to receive national distribution before the title was pulled by IPC for two months.
The Bear animated short broadcast on Channel 4 in 1998.