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Events and publications

January

February

March

April

May

June

  • June 10: The first issue of the Dutch girls comics magazine Tina is published.[11]
  • June 19: Jimmy Hughes' Bully Beef and Chips makes its debut.
  • Blue Beetle #1 (vol. 5) (Charlton)--first appearance of The Question
  • The first issue of the Italian comics magazine Storia del West is published and will run until December 1980.

July

August

September

October

November

December

Specific date unknown

Deaths

January

  • January 21: Homer Fleming, American cartoonist and comics artist (Craig Kennedy), dies at age 84.[32]

March

April

  • April 28: Jack Romer, American comics artist (TV Titters, Bobo & Binky), passes away at age 69. [35]

May

June

  • June 7: Willy Lateste, Belgian animator and comics artist (historical comics for Ons Volkske), dies at age 36.[38]
  • June 21: Stan Kaye, American comics artist (Hayfoot Henry, continued Superman, Batman), dies at age 50. [39]
  • June 27: Charles A. Winter, aka Chuck Winter, American comics artist (Liberty Belle), dies at age 80.[40]

July

August

September

  • September 4: Margit Uppenberg, aka Gobi, Swedish comics artist and illustrator (Pian), dies at age 60. [43]

October

December

Specific date unknown

  • Jean Bellus, French comics artist (Georgie, Laurel et Hardy), passes away at age 55 or 56.[46]
  • Jean Dratz, Belgian painter, caricaturist and comics artist (Petit Chéri), dies at age 61 or 62.[47]
  • Li Fan-fu, Chinese comics artist (Young Master, Old Master Ho), dies at age 60 or 61.[48]
  • Branko Vidić, Serbian novelist and comics writer (Zigomar), passes away at age 62 or 63. [49]

Exhibitions

Conventions

Awards

Best Comic Magazine Section

Best Professional Work

Popularity Poll

Newspaper Strip Section

Fan Activity Section

  • Best All-Article Fanzine - (tie) Batmania and Gosh Wow
  • Best All-Strip Fanzine - Star-Studded Comics
  • Best All-Fiction Fanzine - Stories of Suspense
  • Best Article/Strip Fanzine - Fantasy Illustrated
  • Best Fiction/Strip Fanzine - Star-Studded Comics
  • Best Article/Fiction Fanzine - (tie) Gosh Wow and Huh!
  • Best Fannish One-Shot - Fandom Annual
  • Best Article on Comic Book Material - "Blue Bolt and Gang" (Gosh Wow #1)
  • Best Article on Comic Strip Material - "Gully Foyle" (Star-Studded Comics #11)
  • Best Regular Fan Column - "What's News", by Dave Kaler
  • Best Fan Fiction - "Nightwalker", by Larry Brody (Gosh Wow #1)
  • Best Fan Comic Strip - "Xal-Kor", by Richard "Grass" Green
  • Best Fan Artist - George Metzger
  • Best Comic Strip Writer - Larry Herndon
  • Best Fan Project - 1967 South-Western Con
  • Best Newsletter - On the Drawing Board, by Bob Schoenfeld

First issues by title

Marvel Comics

America's Best TV Comics
Release: mid-year. Writer: Stan Lee. Artists: Jack Kirby, Paul Reinman, Dick Ayers, John Romita Sr.

Ghost Rider

Release: February. Writers: Gary Friedrich and Roy Thomas. Artists: Dick Ayers and Vince Colletta.

Not Brand Echh

Release: August. Editor: Stan Lee.

Charlton Comics

Blue Beetle (vol. 5)

Release: June by Charlton Comics. Writer/Artist: Steve Ditko.

The Many Ghosts of Doctor Graves

Release: May by Charlton Comics. Editor: Dick Giordano.

Peacemaker

Release: March by Charlton Comics. Writer: Joe Gill. Artist: Pat Boyette.

Timmy the Timid Ghost vol. 2

Release: October by Charlton Comics. Editor: Pat Masulli.

Other publishers

Valérian and Laureline, in Pilote magazine

Release: November by Dargaud. Writer: Pierre Christin. Artist: Jean-Claude Mézières.

Wonder Wart-Hog

Release: Millar Publishing Company. Writer: Gilbert Shelton and Tony Bell. Artist: Gilbert Shelton.

Initial appearances by character name

Charlton Comics

DC Comics

Marvel Comics

Comic strips

References

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