Portal:Speculative fiction/Anniversaries/October/October 15
Book releases
Film releases
- straight-to-DVD
Television series
- 1954 - Flash Gordon, a science fiction television series, begins airing on the DuMont Television Network
Births
- 1911 - James H. Schmitz (d. 1981), an American science fiction writer
Deaths
- 1987 - Donald Wandrei (b. 1908), an American science fiction, fantasy and weird fiction writer, poet and editor
- 2009 - George Tuska (b. 1916), an American comic book and newspaper comic strip artist best known for his 1940s work on various Captain Marvel titles and the crime fiction series Crime Does Not Pay