On This Day: 23 Mar

TV Fun (Fleetway Publications) #01 (23 Mar 1988-05 Apr 1988)

Freestyle BMX (IPC Magazines Ltd.) #01 (1984) *magazine*

First Appearances:

Sergeant Rob Hunter (Hunter) in Warlord (D.C. Thomson & Co., Ltd.) #133 (26 Mar 1977).

Births:

Patten Wilson (1969); Julius Stafford Baker, Jr. (1904); Sam Fair (1909)

Notable Events:

The Pet Shop Boys featured in a Smash Hits interview, looking back at Neil Tennant's career, in 1988.
The Glasgow UK Comic Art Convention took place in 1991, with winners of the UK Comic Art Awards being announced by Penguin.
Dave Gibbons became the first artist to be featured in a Superstar Evening by the Cartoon Art Trust in 1996.
The Warren Ellis–scripted Hostile Waters computer game, by Rage Games Limited, was released by Interplay in 2001.
Stanley McMurtry was a castaway on Desert Island Discs, on BBC Radio 4, in 2008.

On This Day: 22 Jan

First Appearances:

Drake of E-Boat Alley in Warlord (D.C. Thomson & Co., Ltd.) #18 (25 Jan 1975).
The Stuarts of Stalingrad in Warlord (D.C. Thomson & Co., Ltd.) #18 (25 Jan 1975).
Gunner Kite The Soldier and the Samurai! in Warlord (D.C. Thomson & Co., Ltd.) #179 (25 Jan 1978).
Lieutenant Moto The Soldier and the Samurai! in Warlord (D.C. Thomson & Co., Ltd.) #179 (25 Jan 1978).
Storm Force in Battle (IPC Magazines Ltd.) #?? (?? Jan 1987).
Bix Barton, Master of the Rum and Uncanny in 2000 A.D Prog 663 (27 Jan 1990).

Births:

Walter Bell (1893); Kimon Evan Marengo (KEM; 1904)

Deaths:

Carlo Pellegrini (Ape; 1889); Patten Wilson (1934)

Notable Events:

Romeo Brown newspaper strip ended in 1962.
The first episode of the original television series Stan Lee's Lucky Man broadcast on Sky 1 in 2016.