In Italy, Diabolik, started softly the previous year, becomes a growing success and finds its definitive shape. In a series of classic stories (The elusive criminal, Diabolik arrested, Atrocious revenge, Buried alive) Diabolik begins to use the Jaguar E-Type, the rubber masks and the shelters, leaves his cover identity as Walter Dorian, ends dramatically his affair with the nurse Elisabeth Gray and begins a long love-story with Eva Kant.
Januaryedit
January 26: The first issue of the British comics magazine Boys' World is published. It will run until 1964.[1]
The first issue of the Catholic magazine Messaggero dei ragazzi (The Boys’ herald) is published in Padua by the Friars Minor of the Basilica of Saint Anthony. In the next decades, the magazine, in spite of its limited distribution, will host the works of important cartoonists such as Dino Battaglia and Hugo Pratt.
February 16: The final issue of the British comics magazine Knockout is published, after which it merges with Valiant.
February 4: The first chapter of Jacovitti’s Baby Rocket, about the interstellar adventures of a half-notch gangster, is published in Il giorno dei ragazzi.
March 2: The final issue of the British comics magazine Swift is published. It merges with Eagle afterwards.
March 3: In L'arresto di Diabolik, the third issue of Angela Giussani and Luciana Giussani's Diabolik, Eva Kant makes her debut. Because this story, the two sisters endure a proceedings for "incitement to corruption".[4]
March 10–17: The story Topolino e l’uomo di Altacraz (Mickey and the man of Altacraz), by Romano Scarpa is first prepublished in Topolino, a story vaguely inspired by Birdman of Alcatraz.
April 13: The first issue of the Flemish children's magazine Ohee is published, supplement of the newspaper Het Volk. It will run until 31 December 1977.[6]
June 11: The final episode of Andries Brandt's Holle Pinkel is published.[10]
June 13: The first issue of Il pioniere dell’Unità, (comic supplement to the PCI official newspaper L’unità) is published; it takes the place of the magazine Il pioniere.[11]
June 16: The first issue of ABC dei ragazzi (The boys’ ABC, supplement to the weekly magazine ABC), is published in Milan.
June 25: The first episode of Rik Clément's detective comic Jan Knap appears in 't Kapoentje. [12]
July 21: in L’isola della Paura (Fear island) by Guido Nolitta and Gallieno Ferri two important recurring characters of Zagor universe, the mad doctor Hellinger and the nice cheater Trampy, make their debut.[14]
Justice League of America #21 – the first team-up of the Justice League and the Justice Society of America as well as the first use of the term "Crisis" in reference to a crossover between Golden Age and Silver Age characters.[17]
November 16: The British comics magazine The Wizard merges with The Rover and becomes Rover and Wizard, under which title it will continue until August 1969.
In Italy, the first issue of Braccio di Ferro (Bianconi), containing Popeye’s adventures written by Italian authors, produced by Classici Audacia (Mondadori) is published.
The final episode of Al Jaffee's Tall Tales is published.[27]
Birthsedit
Deathsedit
Januaryedit
January 2: Joaquín Buigas, Spanish comics writer (La familia Ulises), dies at age 76.
January 18: Francisco Valença, Portuguese comics artist and illustrator, dies at age 80.[28]
Februaryedit
February 18: Vadim Lazarkevich, Russian-Bulgarian illustrator and comics artist (Vesel Putniks Balloon, The Little Barber), dies at age 67.[29]
February 26: Charles Folkard, British illustrator and comics artist (Teddy Tail), dies at age 84.[30]
Marchedit
March 23: Maurice Boyer, aka Moriss, French actor, comedian, illustrator, caricaturist and cartoonist, dies at age 88.[31]
Specific date in March unknown: Koos Schadée, Dutch comics artist and illustrator, dies at an unknown age.[32]
Mayedit
May 3: Alejandro Del Prado, aka Calé, Argentine cartoonist and comics artist (Buenos Aires Intimo), dies at age 37.[33]
Julyedit
July 2: Alicia Patterson, American publisher and comics writer (Deathless Deer), dies at age 56 of complications following stomach surgery for an ulcer.
July 7: François-Joseph Herman, Belgian comics artist (worked for Studio Vandersteen and made several one-shot stories of his own for Tintin), dies at age 31.[34]
August 30: Jan Lunde, Norwegian comics artist (Pappa og Pjokken, Skomakker Bekk of Tvililligene Hans, Professor Skjeel, Dimpen og Dumpen), dies at age 74.[36]
August 31: Willem Gerrit van de Hulst Sr., Dutch novelist and comics writer (In de Soete Suikerbol[37]), dies at age 83.[38]
Septemberedit
September 19: David Low, New Zealand-British cartoonist and comics artist (Colonel Blimp), dies at age 62.[39]
September 20: Jan Wiegman, Dutch comics artist and illustrator, dies at age 79.[40]
Octoberedit
October 9: Leonard Sansone, American comics artist (Wolf Man, Willie), dies in a traffic accident at age 46.[41]
^"Rik Clément". lambiek.net. Retrieved January 9, 2024.
^"Alex Graham". lambiek.net. Retrieved May 15, 2020.
^"Sulle orme di Titan". www.ubcfumetti.com. Retrieved 2022-05-03.
^"Jacques Devos". lambiek.net. Retrieved May 15, 2020.
^McAvennie, Michael (2010). "1960s". In Dolan, Hannah (ed.). DC Comics Year By Year A Visual Chronicle. Dorling Kindersley. p. 109. ISBN 978-0-7566-6742-9. In August's House of Secrets #61, writer Bob Haney and artist Lee Elias used a black diamond to transform Dr. Bruce Gordon into Eclipso.
^McAvennie "1960s" in Dolan, p. 109: "The two-part 'Crisis on Earth-One!' and 'Crisis on Earth-Two!' saga represented the first use of the term 'Crisis' in crossovers, as well as the designations 'Earth-1' and 'Earth-2'. In it editor Julius Schwartz, [writer Gardner] Fox, and artist Mike Sekowsky devised a menace worthy of the World's Greatest Heroes."
^"Charles M. Schulz". lambiek.net. Retrieved February 2, 2021.