On This Day: 27 Mar

Masters of the Universe (London Editions Magazines) #01 [1986]

Caballistics, Inc.: Better the Devil by Mike Wild (Black Flame; Mar 2007) ISBN-10: 1 84416 432 2
From Russia with Lust: The Nikolai Dante Omnibus by David Bishop (Black Flame; 2007) ISBN-10: 1 84416 454 3

Births:

Edward Tennyson Reed (1860); Graham High (1957)

Deaths:

Kate J. Fricero (1923); Thomas Maybank (1929)

Notable Events:

D.C. Thomson & Co., Ltd. incorporated in Scotland in 1905.
Old Bill newspaper strip ended in 1934.
Frank: The True Story that Inspired the Movie by Jon Ronson published in 2014.
Mark-Anthony Turnage's two-act opera Coraline, based on Neil Gaiman's novella, premièred at the Barbican Centre, London, in 2018.

On This Day: 28 Feb

Anderson, PSI Division: Fear the Darkness by Mitchel Scanlon. (Black Library; Feb 2006) ISBN-10: 1 84416 326 1.
Thrill Power Overload by David Bishop. (2007)

The Adventures of Luther Arkwright by Bryan Talbot. (Big Finish Productions Ltd.; 2005)

First Appearances:

Moses Rayker (Sergeant Rayker) in Warlord (D.C. Thomson & Co., Ltd.) #232 (03 Mar 1979).

Births:

Sir John Tenniel (1820); Thomas Maybank (1869); Jim Baikie (1940); Barry Fantoni (1940); Philip Reeve (1966)

Deaths:

Salomon van Abbé (1955); Charles Edmund Brock (1938)

Notable Events:

The funeral of Charles William Shirley Brooks took place, at Kensal Green Cemetary, London, in 1876.
Donald and Mickey was set to be launched by IPC in 1972, though its' actual appearance was delayed by power cuts crippling the country.
An exhibition of 1800s comic art began at the Victoria and Albert Museum in 1974.
The first episode of Spitting Image broadcast on ITV in 1984. Co-created by Roger Law and Peter Fluck, it would launch multiple spin-off media.
The Fosdyke Saga newspaper strip ended in 1985.
The Larks newspaper strip ended in 1985.
2000 A.D. held a 25th Anniversary Party at Ministry of Sound in London in 2002.