On This Day: 16 Apr

The Best of Roy of the Rovers Monthly (Fleetway Publications) #01 (May 1988).
Doctor Who Magazine Special Edition: The Art of Doctor Who (Panini Magazines) #40 (2015).

La Squab: The Black Rose of Auschwitz by David Britton (Savoy Books; 2012) ISBN-10: 0 86130 125 0

First Appearances:

Tiger Tim in Mrs. Hippo’s Kindergarten newspaper strip (1904).
Sgt.-Major John Chard ("Kill, Kill for Kali!") in The Victor (D.C. Thomson & Co., Ltd.) #61 (21 Apr 1962).

Births:

Gianluigi Coppola (1928)

Notable Events:

Film and comic strip star Charlie Chaplin was born in 1889.
Tiger Tim made his first appearance in a one–off strip in The Daily Illustrated Mirror in 1904.
The Mulligans newspaper strip began in The Daily Mirror in 1938.
Little Joe newspaper strip began in The Daily Mirror in 1973.
Jane, Grand Daughter of Jane newspaper strip began in The Daily Mirror in 1985.

On This Day: 05 Mar

Battle Picture Weekly (IPC Magazines Ltd.) #01 (08 Mar 1975).
Dark Souls: Tales of Ember (Titan Comics) #01 (2017).
Doctor Who Ghost Stories (Titan Comics) #01 (2017).
Penny Dreadful (Titan Comics) #01 (2017).
World War Tank Girl (Titan Comics) #01 (2017).

First Appearances:

Red Star Roberts, Gang Buster in The Victor (D.C. Thomson & Co., Ltd.) #55 (10 Mar 1962).
Dave 'Lofty' Banks (Lofty's One-Man Luftwaffe) in Battle Picture Weekly #01 (08 Mar 1975).
Sergeant Bill Battle (The Monsters of No-Man's-Land) in Warlord (D.C. Thomson & Co., Ltd.) #24 (08 Mar 1975).
Danny Budd (The Bootneck Boy) in Battle Picture Weekly #01 (08 Mar 1975).
Sgt. Steve Dawson (D-Day Dawson) in Battle Picture Weekly #01 (08 Mar 1975).
The Flight of the Golden Hinde in Battle Picture Weekly #01 (08 Mar 1975).
Mike Nelson (Day of the Eagle) in Battle Picture Weekly #01 (08 Mar 1975).
The Rat Pack in Battle Picture Weekly #01 (08 Mar 1975).
The Terror Behind the Bamboo Curtain in Battle Picture Weekly #01 (08 Mar 1975).
Luke Clegg (H.M.S. Smokey Joe) in Warlord (D.C. Thomson & Co., Ltd.) #282 (16 Feb 1980).

Births:

Molly Brett (1902); Jose Rafael Fonteriz (1961)

Deaths:

Peter Fraser (1950); Eric Burgin (1966); Ruggero Giovannini (1983); Martin Edmond (2004); George Worsley Adamson (2005)

Notable Events:

Philip Zec's controversial cartoon depicting a seaman adrift after the sinking of his ship was published in 1942.

On This Day: 20 Feb

The Victor (D.C. Thomson & Co., Ltd.) #01 (25 Feb 1961).

First Appearances:

Sgt. George Bourne (strip; I Flew with Braddock) in The Victor #01 (25 Feb 1961).
Sgt.-Pilot Matt Braddock, VC and Bar (strip; I Flew with Braddock) in The Victor #01 (25 Feb 1961).
Boss Danskin (The Gaunt Hounds are Out) in The Victor #01 (25 Feb 1961).
Joe Jagger (prose; Jungle Joe) in The Victor #01 (25 Feb 1961).
Sid Rollins, Snapshot Sid - the Camera Kid (prose) in The Victor #01 (25 Feb 1961).
Gunner Wild (Jimmy the Dodger) in The Victor #01 (25 Feb 1961).
Sgt. Pilot Jimmy Kells (The Bonzo Express) in Warlord (D.C. Thomson & Co., Ltd.) #544 (23 Feb 1985).
Captain Tom Kerr (The Bonzo Express) in Warlord (D.C. Thomson & Co., Ltd.) #544 (23 Feb 1985).

Births:

Cecil Harmsworth King (1901); Reg Beaumont (1919); Mario Capaldi (1935)

Deaths:

Ken Petts (1992)

Notable Events:

The installation of Rowland Emett's Aqua Horological Tintinnabulator, at the Victoria Centre, Nottingham, was completed in 1973.
Rogue Trooper computer game for Wii released in 2009.

On This Day: 16 Oct

Red Dagger (D.C. Thomson & Co., Ltd.) #01 (Twisty) (Oct 1979).
Red Dagger (D.C. Thomson & Co., Ltd.) #02 (Tough of the Track) (Oct 1979).
Marvel Legends (Panini) vol.2 #01 (12 Nov 2014)

Judge Dredd: Apocalypse War by Paul Powell, based on the original scripts by John Wagner & Alan Grant (Random House; 1995)
From Hell - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack by Trevor Jones (2001)

First Appearances:

Albert Ross (The Cap that Carlo Wore) in The Victor (D.C. Thomson & Co., Ltd.) #35 (21 Oct 1961).
Charles Ross (The Cap that Carlo Wore) in The Victor (D.C. Thomson & Co., Ltd.) #35 (21 Oct 1961).
Trapper Fraser (Fraser's Vow) in Warlord (D.C. Thomson & Co., Ltd.) #578 (19 Oct 1985).

Births:

Edward Ardizzone (1900)

Deaths:

John R. Mason (1986); Angus McGill (2015)

Notable Events:

Jacqueline Wilson was a castaway on Desert Island Discs, on BBC Radio 4, in 2005.
The British International Comic Show began in Thinktank, Millennium Point, in Birmingham, in 2010.
The Lakes International Comic Art Festival began, in Kendal, Cumbria, in 2015.