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.

On This Day: 02 Nov

Girl (Hulton Press Ltd.) Vol.1 #01 (1951).

Britain's Best Political Cartoons 2017 edited by Tim Benson. (Random House Books; 2017) ISBN-13: 978-1847948076.

Births:

Colin McLoughlin (1925)

Deaths:

Walter Bell (1979); chairman of the Eagle Society Howard Corn (2016)

Notable Events:

Chad Varah launched the Samaritans hotline in 1953.
Beau Peep newspaper strip began in first issue of The Daily Star in 1978.
Fear and Loathing in Gonzovision, a documentary about Ralph Steadman, broadcast, as part of Omnibus, in 1978.
If... newspaper strip began in The Guardian in 1981.
The Revolver Hallowe'en Tour descended on Nostalgia & Comics, 14-16 Smallbrook, Queensway, Birmingham, in 1990.
A blue plaque was unveiled on 488 Audenshaw Road, Manchester, commemorating Frank Hampson in 2001.
Wallace & Grommit X–mas stamps were released by the Post Office in 2010.
Comica, the London International Comics Festival, began in 2012, running at multiple locations until the end of the month.
Cursed Edge – Prog 1 fan film released on YouTube in 2013.