Jump on our Virtual Newsstand as we journey back to 1950. See and read the comic books on sale month by month, and find out the major news of the day.

January: Armed robbers steal over $2.5m in cash & securities from the Brink's armored car company HQ in Boston, Massachusetts.

February: First credit card charge is made by Frank McNamara, Ralph Schneider & Matty Simmons founders of the Diners Club.

March: Volkswagen introduce a new panel van named 'Type 2'. It their second car model, the first being the 'Type 1' Beetle.

April: British comic 'The Eagle' is founded by vicar Marcus Morris. It features Frank Hampson's 'Dan Dare, Pilot of the Future'.

May: The mummified corpse of a man from the 4th century BC is found in a Danish peat bog. It is believed he was a sacrifice.

June: North Korean troops cross the 38th parallel into South Korea & soon capture Seoul. This action starts the Korean War.

July: Entrepreneur Richard Branson is born. Despite his dyslexia he will found the Virgin Group & become a multi-billionaire.

August: Paul Robeson, whose passport was revoked due to alleged Communist sympathies, fails to persuade officials to reinstate it.

September: After a single outing in 1941, radio game show 'Truth or Consequences' hosted by Ralph Edwards premieres on television.

October: The People's Liberation Army cross the Jinsha River & invade Tibet. It will become an Autonomous Region of China.

November: A group led by Harry Hay found 'The Mattachine Society' in Los Angeles, one of the first gay-liberation organizations.

December: Bertrand Russell won the Nobel Prize in Literature 'in recognition of his varied and significant writings in which he champions humanitarian ideals and freedom of thought'.