Tales of Suspense (1959 series) #26 - Marvel Comics
Tales to Astonish (1959 series) #28 - Marvel Comics
March
March 1: The first episode of René Goscinny and Jean Tabary's Valentin Le Vagabond is published in Pilote. The series will run until 1973.[6]
March 22: In Pilote, the first chapter of Asterix the Gladiator, by Goscinny and Uderzo is prepublished. The story marks the debut of the pirates, whose unlucky encounters with the gauls will become a running gag in each album.[7]
Amazing Adult Fantasy (1961 series) #10 - Marvel Comics
Tales of Suspense (1959 series) #27 - Marvel Comics
Tales to Astonish (1959 series) #29 - Marvel Comics
The Italian editor Luciano Secchi debuts as an author with the western series Maschera nera (Black mask), designed by Paolo Piffarerio and published by Editoriale Corno. For the occasion, the writer takes the pen name Max Bunker.
Strange Adventures #140, "The Strange Adventure That Really Happened," featuring DC Comics staff members Julius Schwartz and Sid Greene struggling to make writer Gardner Fox recall a story he has written that holds the key to saving the Earth from alien invasion.
Tales of Suspense (1959 series) #32 - Marvel Comics
Tales to Astonish (1959 series) #34 - Marvel Comics
September
September 5:
The first issue of the Flemish comics magazine Pats is published. It's a weekly children's supplement of the newspapers Het Nieuwsblad, De Standaard, Het Handelsblad, De Gentenaar and De Landwacht. It will run until 27 February 1974, after which it changes its name to the Patskrant.
Inside the first issue of PatsWilly Vandersteen's comics series Pats (1962-1977) makes its debut.,[15] as well as Gommaar Timmermans' long-running children's comic Fideel de Fluwelen Ridder.[16]
September 15: The final issue of the British comics magazine Film Fun is published, which merges with Buster.
November 1: In Spirou, the first chapter of the Lucky Luke story The Wagon Train by Goscinny and Morris is prepublished.
November 22: The Suske en Wiske story Het Rijmende Paard by Willy Vandersteen is first published in the newspapers. Halfway the story the series' nemesis Krimson makes his debut.[20]
Gene Deitch's Maly Svet (Small World) runs in Kvety, the official weekly of the Czech Communist Party for 12 episodes, after which it is discontinued because of its satire of communism.[23]
January 13: Ernie Kovacs, American comedian and comics writer (Mad[28]), dies at age 42 in a car accident.[29]
January 22: Jack Patton, American comics artist (Restless Age, Dolly Burns, Spencer Easley), dies at age 61.[30]
February
February 12: Ding Darling, American cartoonist and comics artist (Taking the Day's Work Home to Be Free From Interruptions, We Could Live Just as Cheaply as Our Fathers, The Great American Sucker, The Musical Career of Tillie Clapsaddle), dies at age 85.[31]
Bob Wickersham, American animator and comics artist (American Comics Group (ACG), Timely Comics, Real Screen Comics and Ned Pines Comics), dies at age 50.[37]
April 25: Billy Cam, American comics artist (Camouflages), dies at age 70.[38]
April 26: Carlos Neve, Mexican comic artist (Segundo I, Rey de Moscabia, Rocambole), dies at age 71–72.[39]
May 24: Vic Forsythe, American comics artist (Joe Jinks, Divot Diggers), dies at age 76.[42]
June
June 2: Jules Luyckx, A.K.A. Julux, Belgian animator and comic artist (Pimmeke, Jantje Pap, Tijl Uilenspiegel), dies at age 41 or 42 in an accident. [43]
June 21: Tom Webster, British cartoonist (drew sports cartoons), dies at age 76.[44]
August 7: Mikhail Cheremnykh, Russian caricaturist, painter, illustrator, poster artist and comics artist (Soviet propaganda comics), dies at age 71.[46]
September 17: Harry L. Parkhurst, American illustrator and comics artist (Murder for Exercise, Dear Little Dude), dies at age 86.[48]
September 26: George Carlson (Jingle Jangle Comics), American comics artist, dies at age 84 or 85.[49]
September 28: Bernardo Marques, Portuguese painter and comics artist, dies at age 64.[50]
October
October 26: Georges Sogny, French illustrator and comic artist (continued Don Winslow of the Navy in Le Journal de Mickey), dies at age 66. [51]
Specific date unknown: Forest A. McGinn, American comics artist (made a celebrity comic about Joe Martin, a Hollywood orang-utan), dies at age 69.[52]
November
November 2: Kurt Ludwig Schmidt, aka Becker-Kasch, German comics artist (Tim und Tobby, Mischa im Weltraum, Die Löwe Adolar, Rolf Kauka comics), dies at age 53.[53]
November 4: Guillermo Cifré, Spanish comics artist (Don Furcio, Cucufato Pi, Reporter Tribulete), dies at age 39.[54]
November 9: Emile Brumsteede, Dutch film director and comics artist (Dannie ben ik), dies at age 51.[55]
November 17: Albéric Bourgeois, Canadian comics artist (Les Aventures de Timothée, Les Aventures de Toinon, Les Fables du Parc Lafontaine, continued Le Père Ladébauche), dies at age 86.[56]
November 29: Karl Staudinger, Austrian graphic artist, illustrator and art teacher (made occasional comics), dies at age 88. [57]
December
December 12: David Bueno de Mesquita, Dutch graphic artist, illustrator and comics artist (De Geschiedenis van Gulzigen Tobias, Billie Ritchie en Zijn Ezel), dies at age 73.[58]
Specific date unknown
Arch Dale, Scottish-Canadian cartoonist and comics artist (The Doo-Dads), dies at age 79 or 80.[59]
Guido Moroni-Celsi, Italian comics artist (Bonifazio, I Misteri della Giungla Nera, La Conquista di Mompracem), dies at age 77.[60]
Robert Q. Sale, American comics artist (worked for Lev Gleason, Funnies Inc., D.S. Publishing & Hillman, DC Comics, Novelty Comics, Marvel Comics/Atlas Comics), dies at age 37 or 38.[62]
H.M. Talintyre, British comics artist (Uncle Oojah, Jack and Jill), dies at age 68 or 69.[63]
