1946 in comics
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Events and publications
February
- February 2: Jean Dulieu's Paulus de Boskabouter (Paulus the woodgnome) debuts in Het Vrije Volk. [1]
- February 7: Buth's Thomas Pips makes its debut in Het Volk. [2]
March
- March 3: Milton Caniff's Male Call comes to its conclusion after three years of newspaper publication.
- March 4: Alex Raymond's Rip Kirby makes its debut. [3]
- March 12: First issue of the comics magazine Treasure Chest is published. [4]
April
- April 15: Ed Dodd's newspaper comic Mark Trail is first published in the New York Post.[5]
- April 22: First publication of Machiko Hasegawa's manga series Sazae-san in Fukunichi Shimbun.
May
- May 12: Andrea Lavezzolo and Edgardo dell'Acqua's comic strip Gim Toro makes its debut.
- May 15: Willy Vandersteen's Suske en Wiske story De Sprietatoom is first published. Halfway the story Lambik makes his debut.
June
- In Al Capp's Li'l Abner the character Lena the Hyena is introduced. "The world's ugliest woman" is an unseen character who is always obscured from view, but characters react in horror to her ugliness. Her face will finally be revealed five months later. [6]
July
- July 5: Hans G. Kresse's Eric de Noorman debuts in Het Laatste Nieuws. [7]
September
- September 20: The British comics magazine The Comet is first published. It will run until 17 October 1959, after which it merges into the magazine Tiger. [8]
- September 26: The first issue of the Belgian comics magazine Le journal de Tintin Tintin is published by Raymond Leblanc. The magazine will run until 1993. This also marks the continuation of The Adventures of Tintin by Hergé, which had been interrupted after World War II.[9]
- September 26: Edgar P. Jacobs' Blake and Mortimer by Edgar P. Jacobs debuts in Tintin. [10]
- September 26: Paul Cuvelier's Corentin debuts in Tintin. [11]
- September 30: National Periodical Publications is established, from a merger of All-American Publications and Detective Comics, Inc.
October
- October 21: After five months of playing with readers' expectations the previously unseen character Lena the Hyena in Al Capp's comic strip Li'l Abner is finally revealed to the audience. Her design was part of a readers' contest won by a still unknown cartoonist Basil Wolverton. The exposure finally launches his career. [12]
- October: Cesare Solini and Antonio Canale's Amok makes its debut. [13]
November
- November 15: First publication of the Filipino comics magazine Halakhak Komiks.
December
- December 7: First appearance of Lucky Luke and his trusty horse Jolly Jumper by Morris, in Spirou with the story Arizona 1880.[14]
- December 23: Marten Toonder's Panda makes its newspaper debut. [15]
Deaths
- January 2: O'Galop, French painter, illustrator, graphic designer, animator and comics artist (Le Supplice de la Roue, Fifi Céleri), passes away at age 78. [16]
- June 15: Charles Forbell, American comics artist (Naughty Pete), dies at age 71. [17]
- September 16: Francisque Poulbot, French illustrator and cartoonist, dies at age 67. [18]
Initial appearances by character name
- Fantax, created by Marcel Navarro and Pierre Mouchot.
- Lambik by Willy Vandersteen.
- Morgaine le Fey in Batman #36 - DC Comics
References
- ^ https://www.lambiek.net/artists/d/dulieu.htm
- ^ https://www.lambiek.net/artists/b/buth.htm
- ^ "Rip Kirby". Don Markstein's Toonopedia. Don Markstein's Toonopedia. Archived from the original on 2017-01-19. Retrieved January 19, 2017.
{{cite web}}: Unknown parameter|deadurl=ignored (|url-status=suggested) (help) - ^ Treasure Chest of Fun & Facts Vol. 1, No. 1. March 12, 1946 at WRLC Libraries. Archived from the original on May 3, 2012.
- ^ "Mark Trail". Don Markstein's Toonopedia. Archived from the original on February 13, 2016.
{{cite web}}: Unknown parameter|deadurl=ignored (|url-status=suggested) (help) - ^ https://www.lambiek.net/artists/w/wolverton.htm
- ^ https://www.lambiek.net/artists/k/kresse.htm
- ^ Complete AP/Fleetway comic index
- ^ BDoubliées. "Tintin année 1946" (in French). Archived from the original on 9 July 2007. Retrieved 17 June 2007.
{{cite web}}: Unknown parameter|deadurl=ignored (|url-status=suggested) (help) - ^ https://www.lambiek.net/artists/j/jacobs.htm
- ^ https://www.lambiek.net/artists/c/cuvelier.htm
- ^ https://www.lambiek.net/artists/w/wolverton.htm
- ^ "Young April 12, 1948 Findings of Facts". Scribd. Retrieved 11 December 2016.
DETECTIVE COMICS, INC. was a corporation duly organized and existing under the laws of the State of New York, and was one of the constituent corporations consolidated on September 30, 1946 into defendant NATIONAL COMICS PUBLICATIONS, INC.
- ^ BDOubliées. "Spirou année 1946" (in French). Archived from the original on 11 July 2007. Retrieved 17 June 2007.
{{cite web}}: Unknown parameter|deadurl=ignored (|url-status=suggested) (help) - ^ https://www.lambiek.net/artists/t/toonder.htm
- ^ https://www.lambiek.net/artists/o/o-galop.htm
- ^ https://www.lambiek.net/artists/f/forbell_c.htm
- ^ https://www.lambiek.net/artists/p/poulbot.htm
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