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Showing posts with label Ronald Niebour. Show all posts
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Thursday, April 4, 2019

On This Day: 04 Apr

Doctor Who: The Malignant Truth (Titan Comics; 2017)

Tottering-by-Gently: Tottering Hall Recipe Organiser (Frances Lincoln Stationery; 2013) ISBN-13: 978-0711234147.

Births:

Will Nickless (1902); Brian White (1902); Ronald Niebour (NEB; 1903)

Deaths:

Anthony Masters (2003); Dave Lamb (2011)

Notable Events:

The first series of Stan Lee's Lucky Man was released on DVD in 2016.

Tuesday, January 15, 2019

On This Day: 15 Jan

Bunty (D.C. Thomson & Co., Ltd.) #01 (1958).
Sparky (D.C. Thomson & Co., Ltd.) #01 (1965).
Joe 90 (City Magazines) #01 (18 Jan 1969).
Look and Learn (Fleetway Publications Ltd.) #01.
Blue Jeans (D.C. Thomson & Co., Ltd.) #01.
The Astonishing Spider-Man (Panini UK) vol.5 #01 (28 Jan 2015)

Greatest Hits #01 (1981)
LM (Newsfield) #01 (1987)

Births:

Ian Dickson (1905); Robert Geary (1931); Michael Daley (1944)

Deaths:

Alfred Edmeades Bestall (1986); Andrew Hutton (2015)

Notable Events:

A cutting of a Ronald Niebour Daily Mail cartoon, published in 1944, was found in the ruins of Hitler's Chancellery.
Look and Learn went on sale in 1961, amid the most thorough promotional launch given to such a title.
The Beano–Dandy Story, the third episode of the 11th season of documentary series Arena, was broadcast in 1988.
The lawsuit between Fox and Warner Bros. was resolved in 2009, allowing the Watchmen film adaptation to be released.
The first episode of original television series Utopia broadcast on Channel 4 in 2013. The series owed a great deal to comics in both its' narrative and visual style.
Revolutionary War: Dark Angel (Marvel) #01 (Jan 2014) released in the US in 2014.

Saturday, December 1, 2018

On This Day: 01 Dec

Fink Angel: Legacy by John Wagner, Alan Grant, Mick McMahon, Peter Doherty, Carlos Ezquerra & Tiernen Trevallion. (Rebellion; Dec 2016) ISBN-13: 978-1781-08497-7.
Judge Dredd: The Complete Case Files 28 (Rebellion; Dec 2016) ISBN-13: 978-1781-08433-5.

Births:

George Dalziel (1815); Bert Hill (1901); Harry Winslade (1901); Ricardo Garijo (1953)

Deaths:

David Nixon (1978); Mathew Abraham (Abu; 2002); Martin Sharp (2013)

Notable Events:

The Pater newspaper strip ended in 1931.
Ronald Niebour retired from cartooning for The Daily Mail in 1960.
The Jimi Hendrix Experience's Axis: Bold as Love record released in 1967, with a cover by Roger Law. It would go on to be a best-selling poster.
The Mr. Men newspaper strip began in The Daily Mirror in 1976.
Modesty Blaise newspaper strip reprints began in The Evening Standard in 2008.