On This Day: 13 Feb

Fantastic (Odhams) #01 (18 Feb 1967)
Countdown (Polystyle Publications Ltd.) #01 (20 Feb 1971)

Kingsman: The Secret Service Original Motion Picture Score by Henry Jackman & Matthew Margeson (2015)

First Appearances:

The Missing Link in Fantastic #01 (18 Feb 1967).
Countdown in Countdown #01 (20 Feb 1971).
Colony Earth! in 2000 A.D. (IPC Magazines Ltd.) Prog 52 (18 Feb 1978).
Burt Anders (Wolverine) in Warlord (D.C. Thomson & Co., Ltd.) #282 (16 Feb 1980).
Joe Bunce (Wolverine) in Warlord (D.C. Thomson & Co., Ltd.) #282 (16 Feb 1980).
'Posh' Keeley (Wolverine) in Warlord (D.C. Thomson & Co., Ltd.) #282 (16 Feb 1980).
Chuck Lennon (Wolverine) in Warlord (D.C. Thomson & Co., Ltd.) #282 (16 Feb 1980).
Sgt. Pierre Revelle (Wolverine) in Warlord (D.C. Thomson & Co., Ltd.) #282 (16 Feb 1980).
Fritz Muller (The Best of Enemies) in Warlord (D.C. Thomson & Co., Ltd.) #282 (16 Feb 1980).
Sgt. Tom Wilson (The Best of Enemies) in Warlord (D.C. Thomson & Co., Ltd.) #282 (16 Feb 1980).
Bob Trent (The Brothers) in Eagle (IPC Magazines Ltd.) vol.20? #100 (18 Feb 1984).
Peter Trent (The Brothers) in Eagle (IPC Magazines Ltd.) vol.20? #100 (18 Feb 1984).
Cathy Biltmore (News-Team) in Eagle (IPC Magazines Ltd.) vol.20? #100 (18 Feb 1984).
Dex Donovan (News-Team) in Eagle (IPC Magazines Ltd.) vol.20? #100 (18 Feb 1984).
Kurt Goppel (News-Team) in Eagle (IPC Magazines Ltd.) vol.20? #100 (18 Feb 1984).
Jerry Maddox (News-Team) in Eagle (IPC Magazines Ltd.) vol.20? #100 (18 Feb 1984).

Births:

Frank Reynolds (1876); Robert Stewart Sherriffs (1906); Anthony Tollin (1952)

Deaths:

Ron Embleton (1988); W. Howard Baker (1991); Gordon Bell (2014); Dave Holmes (2017)

Notable Events:

The Sunday Dispatch published Comics that Bring Horror to the Nursery, a piece by Marcus Morris regarding imported horror comics in 1949.
The first episode of The Sitcom Trials, created by Kev F. Sutherland, broadcast on ITV in 2003.
Modesty Blaise: The Silver Mistress radio adaptation began on the "15 Minute Drama" slot on BBC Radio 4 in 2017, starring the voices of Daphne Alexander, Paul Bazely, and Ian McNeice. The series ran for five fifteen minute episodes.

On This Day: 03 Oct

Real Roy of the Rovers Stuff by Barrie Tomlinson (2016)

Births:

W. Howard Baker (1925); Sid Burgon (1936); Dave Follows (1941); Mark Wilkinson (1952)

Deaths:

George Belcher (1947); Frank Hoar (Acanthus; 1976); John Worsley (2000); George Thomson (2008); Ricardo Garijo (2009)

Notable Events:

Izzy and Dizzy newspaper strip ended in 1925.
Gerard Hoffnung's album At the Oxford Union entered the charts in 1960, and would continue to chart for another fourteen weeks.
Bananaman animated television series began on BBC in 1983.
John Smith forgot his ID while on the Crisis signing tour in Belfast in 1988. He had an understandably difficult time convincing authorities that John Smith was his real name...
May un Mar Lady newspaper strip ended in 2003.
The British International Comic Show began in Thinktank, Millennium Point, in Birmingham, in 2009.