1951 in comics

Events

January

January 27: The Nero story De Zwarte Voeten is first published in the newspapers. Halfway the story the main cast member Meneer Pheip makes his debut.
Action Comics (1938 series) #152 - DC Comics
Adventure Comics (1938 series) #160 - DC Comics
Adventures Into the Unknown! (1948 series) #19 - American Comics Group
Adventures of Alan Ladd (1949 series) #9 - DC Comics
Airboy (as Airboy Vol. 7) (1942 series) #12 - Hillman Periodicals
All Star Comics (becomes All Star Western) (1948 series) #58 - DC Comics
Amazing Adventures (1950 series) #2 - Ziff-Davis Publishing Company
Amazing Detective Cases (1950 series) #4 - Atlas Comics
Archie Comics (1946 series) #48 - Archie Publications
Archie's Girls Betty and Veronica (1950 series) #7 - Archie Publications
Archie's Pal Jughead (1949 series) #8 - Archie Publications
Archie's Rival Reggie (1950 series) #2 - Archie Publications
Blackhawk (1944 series) #36 - Quality Comics
The Cisco Kid #2 - Dell Comics
Dale Evans Comics (1948 series) #15 - DC Comics
Danger Trail (1950 series) #4 - DC Comics
Detective Comics (1937 series) #167 - DC Comics
Journey Into Unknown Worlds (1950 series) #38 - Atlas Comics
Movie Town Animial Antics (1946 series) #30 - DC Comics
Mr. District Attorney (1948 series) #19 - DC Comics
Private Eye (1951 series) #1 - Atlas Comics
Sensation Comics (1942 series) #101 - DC Comics
Star Spangled Comics (1941 series) #112 - DC Comics
Strange Adventures (1950 series) #4 - DC Comics
Superboy (1949 series) #12 - DC Comics

February

February 1: Jean-Michel Charlier and Octave Joly's educational comics series L'Oncle Paul is first published in Spirou.
A-1 Comics (1944 series) #31 - Magazine Enterprises
Action Comics (1938 series) #153 - DC Comics
Adventure Comics (1938 series) #161 - DC Comics
Adventures into Terror (1950 series) #102 - Atlas Comics
Adventures Into the Unknown! (1948 series) #20 - American Comics Group
Adventures of Bob Hope (1950 series) #7 - DC Comics
Airboy (as Airboy Vol. 8) (1942 series) #1 - Hillman Periodicals
All American Western (1948 series) #118 - DC Comics
All Star Comics (1940 series) #57 - final issue (cover-dated February/March), cancelled by DC Comics
All-True Crime (1948 series) #44 - Atlas Comics
Amazing Adventures (1950 series) #3 - Ziff-Davis Publishing Company
Astonishing (1951 series) #2 - Atlas Comics
Batman (1940 series) #63 - DC Comics
Blackhawk (1944 series) #37 - Quality Comics
Detective Comics (1937 series) #168 - DC Comics
Flash Gordon (1950 series) #4 - Harvey Publications
Journey Into Unknown Worlds (1950 series) #4 - Atlas Comics
Marvel Boy (1950 series) #2 - Altas Comics - Marvel Boy will be renamed to Astonishing
Marvel Tales (1949 series) #102 - Atlas Comics
Men Adventures (1949 series) #6 - Atlas Comics
Star Spangled Comics (1941 series) #113 - DC Comics
Strange Adventures (1950 series) #5 - DC Comics
Superman (1939 series) #68 - DC Comics
White Fang (1944 series) #80 - Classics Illustrated
Young Men (1949 series) #7 - Atlas Comics

March

March 4: The final episode of Jules Feiffer's gag comic Clifford is published.^[1]
March 5: Malang is sued by the Filipino police for defamation over a cartoon ridiculing them.^[2]
March 12: Hank Ketcham's Dennis the Menace makes its debut.
March 13: In Mort Walker's Beetle Bailey Beetle Bailey joins the army, which changes the overall concept of the comic strip, originally premiered in 1950.^[3]
March 16: In Charles M. Schulz' Peanuts Charlie Brown and his friends play their first baseball match.^[4]
March 17: David Law's Dennis the Menace and Gnasher makes its debut in The Beano.
A-1 Comics (1944 series) #32 - Magazine Enterprises
Action Comics (1938 series) #154 - DC Comics
Adventure Comics (1938 series) #162 - DC Comics
Adventures Into the Unknown! (1948 series) #21 - American Comics Group
Airboy (as Airboy Vol. 8) (1942 series) #2 - Hillman Periodicals
Amazing Detective Cases (1950 series) #5 - Atlas Comics
Archie Comics (1946 series) #49 - Archie Publications
Archie's Girls Betty and Veronica (1950 series) #8 - Archie Publications
Archie's Pal Jughead (1949 series) #9 - Archie Publications
Archie's Rival Reggie (1950 series) #3 - Archie Publications
Battle (1951 series) #1 - Atlas Comics
Blackhawk (1944 series) #38 - Quality Comics
Dale Evans Comics (1948 series) #16 - DC Comics
Danger Trail (1950 series) #5 - DC Comics
Detective Comics (1937 series) #169 - DC Comics
Movie Town Animial Antics (1946 series) #31 - DC Comics
Mr. District Attorney (1948 series) #20 - DC Comics
Mystic (1951 series) #1 - Atlas Comics
Private Eye (1951 series) #2 - Atlas Comics
Sensation Comics (1942 series) #102 - DC Comics
Star Spangled Comics (1941 series) #114 - DC Comics
Strange Adventures (1950 series) #6 - DC Comics
Superboy (1949 series) #13 - DC Comics

April

April 16: Pom's Piet Pienter en Bert Bibber makes its debut in Het Zondagsblad.^[5]
April 17: The final issue of the Belgian comics magazine Bravo! is published.
April 25: The first issue of the Flemish children's magazine Pum-Pum is published. It will run until 11 January 1967.^[6]
In Osamu Tezuka's Astro Boy story Captain Atom Professor Ochanomizu makes his debut.
A-1 Comics (1944 series) #33 - Magazine Enterprises
Action Comics (1938 series) #155 - DC Comics
Adventure Comics (1938 series) #163 - DC Comics
Adventures into Terror (1950 series) #103 - Atlas Comics
Adventures Into the Unknown! (1948 series) #22 - American Comics Group
Adventures of Bob Hope (1950 series) #8 - DC Comics
Airboy (as Airboy Vol. 8) (1942 series) #3 - Hillman Periodicals
All American Western (1948 series) #119 - DC Comics
All Star Western (previously All Star Comics) (1948 series) #58 - DC Comics
All-True Crime (1948 series) #45 - Atlas Comics
Astonishing (1951 series) #3 - Atlas Comics
Batman (1940 series) #64 - DC Comics
Battle (1951 series) #2 - Atlas Comics
Blackhawk (1944 series) #39 - Quality Comics
Danger Trail (1950 series) #5 - DC Comics
Detective Comics (1937 series) #170 - DC Comics
Flash Gordon (1950 series) #5 - Harvey Publications
Journey Into Unknown Worlds (1950 series) #5 - Atlas Comics
Marvel Tales (1949 series) #103 - Atlas Comics
Men Adventures (1949 series) #7 - Atlas Comics
Mystery in Space (1951 series) #1 - DC Comics
Two-Gun Kid (as Two-Gun Western) (1948 series) #6 - Atlas Comics
Star Spangled Comics (1941 series) #115 - DC Comics
Strange Adventures (1950 series) #7 - DC Comics
Superman (1939 series) #69 - DC Comics
Young Men (1949 series) #8 - Atlas Comics

December

December 5: The first issue of the Finnish Disney comics magazine Aku Ankka is published.^[16]
December 28: André Breton, Benjamin Péret and Paul Braig's La Vie Imaginée de Pablo Picasso is launched in the magazine Arts. It's a comic strip about Pablo Picasso and run until 8 February 1952. ^[17]
In the 37th issue of Will Eisner and Lou Fine's Doll Man Doll Man's girlfriend Martha Roberts becomes his team partner under the name Midge, the Doll Girl.^[18]
A-1 Comics (1944 series) #41 - Magazine Enterprises
Action Comics (1938 series) #163 - DC Comics
Adventure Comics (1938 series) #171 - DC Comics
Adventures into Terror (1950 series) #107 - Atlas Comics
Adventures Into the Unknown! (1948 series) #30 - American Comics Group
Adventures of Bob Hope (1950 series) #12 - DC Comics
Airboy (as Airboy Vol. 8) (1942 series) #11 - Hillman Periodicals
All American Western (1948 series) #123 - DC Comics
All Star Western (1940 series) #62 - DC Comics
All-True Crime (1948 series) #49 - Atlas Comics
Astonishing (1951 series) #7 - Atlas Comics
Batman (1940 series) #68 - DC Comics
Battle (1951 series) #10 - Atlas Comics
Blackhawk (1944 series) #47 - Quality Comics
Combat Kelly (1951 series) #2 - Atlas Comics
Detective Comics (1937 series) #178 - DC Comics
House of Mystery (1951 series) #1 - DC Comics
Journey Into Unknown Worlds (1950 series) #9 - Atlas Comics
Marvel Tales (1949 series) #107 - Atlas Comics
Men Adventures (1949 series) #11 - Atlas Comics
Mystery in Space (1951 series) #5 - DC Comics
Star Spangled Comics (1941 series) #123 - DC Comics
Strange Adventures (1950 series) #15 - DC Comics
Strange Tales (1951 series) #4 - Atlas Comics
Superman (1939 series) #73 - DC Comics
Two-Gun Kid (as Two-Gun Western) (1948 series) #10 - Atlas Comics
Young Men (1949 series) #12 - Atlas Comics - Renamed to Young Men on the Battlefield

Specific date unknown

John Gee's The Tindertoes makes its debut. He will draw it until his death in 1977, after which it's continued.^[19]
J.H. Koeleman publishes his first Pinkie Pienter (Ronny Roberts) album.^[20]
Maurice Chénechot draws Riri, which will last until 1953.^[21]
Archie Comics Annual (1946 series) #2 - Archie Publications
Hopalong Cassidy (1946 series) #60 - Quality Comics
King Solomon's Mines - Avon Comics
Rocket To The Moon - Avon Comics

Deaths

January

January 7: Nelly Bodenheim, Dutch painter, illustrator and comics artist, dies at age 76.^[22]

April

April 5: Harry Hemsley, British comedian, radio presenter, comics artist, voice actor and illustrator (drew for Ally Sloper's Half Holiday, wrote and drew comics based on his own radio show Ovaltiney's Concert Party), passes away at age 73.^[23]
April 7: Gustave-Henri Jossot, French painter, caricaturist, illustrator and comics artist (made early text comics), dies at age 84.^[24]
April 24: Henry Yoshikata Kiyama, Japanese manga artist (The Four Immigrants Manga), dies at the age of 75.^[25]

May

May 21: Clifford McBride, American comics artist (Napoleon and Uncle Elby), dies at the age of 50.^[26]

June

June 10: Dudley Fisher, American comics artist (Right Around Home), passes away at the age of 60 or 61.^[27]

July

July 8: Walter Trier, Czech-German illustrator and comics artist, dies at age 61.^[28]

August

August 14: William Randolph Hearst, American newspaper comics publisher, co-founder of King Features and major force behind the comics industry, passes away at age 88.^[29]

September

September 18: Gelett Burgess, American poet, novelist, illustrator and comics artist (Goops), dies at age 85.

November

November 8: Antoni Muntañola, Spanish illustrator and comics artist, dies at age 67 or 68.^[30]
November 10: William Meade Prince, American illustrator, theatrical actor and comics artist (Aladdin, Jr.), commits suicide at age 58.^[31]^[32]

December

December 2: J.P. Arnot, American comics artist (Helpful Henry), dies at age 64.^[33]

Specific date unknown

Bernard Graddon, British comics artist (Just Jake), dies at the age of 80 or 81.^[34]

Initial appearances by character name

Tiger Jack, Tex Willer's indian pard, in The Dalton gang, (January) created by Gian Luigi Bonelli and Galep - Bonelli
Knights of the Galaxy in Mystery in Space #1 (April), created by Robert Kanigher and Carmine Infantino - DC Comics
Kit Willer, Tex Willer's son, in The shadow of fear (May–October) created by Gian Luigi Bonelli and Galep - Bonelli. In the same adventure, set in Canada, two other recurring characters of the series (the Redcoat Jim Brandon and the trapper Gros-Jean) make their debut.^[35]
Captain Comet in Strange Adventures #9 (June), created by Julius Schwartz, John Broome and Carmine Infantino - DC Comics

References

^ "Jules Feiffer". lambiek.net. Retrieved May 12, 2020.
^ "Malang Santos". lambiek.net. Retrieved May 12, 2020.
^ "Mort Walker". lambiek.net. Retrieved May 12, 2020.
^ "Charles M. Schulz". lambiek.net. Retrieved February 2, 2021.
^ "Pom".
^ KOUSEMAKER, Kees en Evelien, "Wordt Vervolgd- Stripleksikon der Lage Landen", Uitgeverij Het Spectrum, Utrecht, Antwerpen, 1979, page 195
^ "Manuel Vázquez Gallego". lambiek.net. Retrieved May 12, 2020.
^ "Charles M. Schulz". lambiek.net. Retrieved February 2, 2021.
^ Daniels, Les (1995). DC Comics : Sixty Years of the World's Favorite Comic Book Heroes. Bulfinch. p. 103. ISBN 0821220764. The eighth issue of Strange Adventures achieved some sort of classic status. The cover showed a gorilla in a zoo holding up a slate that read 'Please believe me! I am the victim of a terrible scientific experiment!' This 'Incredible Story of an Ape with a Human Brain' had strong sales, and [editor Julius] Schwartz recalls that 'Irwin Donenfeld called me in and said we should try it again. Finally all the editors wanted to use gorilla covers.'
^ Strange Adventures #8 at the Grand Comics Database
^ "Tom Poes Weekblad". www.lambiek.net. Retrieved May 12, 2020.
^ Maurice Horn. The World encyclopedia of comics. Chelsea House Publishers, 1976.
^ "Charles M. Schulz". lambiek.net. Retrieved February 2, 2021.
^ "Charles M. Schulz". lambiek.net. Retrieved February 2, 2021.
^ "Willy Vandersteen". lambiek.net. Retrieved May 12, 2020.
^ "SanomaWSOY Corporation - Company Profile". Reference for Business. Retrieved 9 April 2015.
^ "Paul Braig". lambiek.net. Retrieved December 16, 2020.
^ "Will Eisner". lambiek.net. Retrieved May 12, 2020.
^ "John Gee". lambiek.net. Retrieved May 12, 2020.
^ "J. H. Koeleman jr". lambiek.net. Retrieved May 12, 2020.
^ https://www.lambiek.net/artists/c/chenechot_maurice.htm
^ "Nelly Bodenheim". lambiek.net. Retrieved May 12, 2020.
^ "Harry Hemsley". lambiek.net. Retrieved May 12, 2020.
^ "Gustave-Henri Jossot". lambiek.net. Retrieved May 12, 2020.
^ "Henry Yoshitaka Kiyama". lambiek.net. Retrieved May 12, 2020.
^ "Clifford McBride". lambiek.net. Retrieved May 12, 2020.
^ "Dudley Fisher". lambiek.net. Retrieved May 12, 2020.
^ https://www.lambiek.net/artists/t/trier_walter.htm
^ "William Randolph Hearst". lambiek.net. Retrieved May 12, 2020.
^ "Antoni Muntañola". lambiek.net. Retrieved May 12, 2020.
^ "Prince, William Meade | NCpedia". www.ncpedia.org. Retrieved May 12, 2020.
^ "William Meade Prince". lambiek.net. Retrieved May 12, 2020.
^ "J. P. Arnot". lambiek.net. Retrieved May 12, 2020.
^ "Bernard Graddon". lambiek.net. Retrieved May 12, 2020.
^ "uBC". www.ubcfumetti.com. Retrieved 2019-04-16.

[1] "Jules Feiffer". lambiek.net. Retrieved May 12, 2020.

[2] "Malang Santos". lambiek.net. Retrieved May 12, 2020.

[3] "Mort Walker". lambiek.net. Retrieved May 12, 2020.

[3-4] "Charles M. Schulz". lambiek.net. Retrieved February 2, 2021.

[5] "Pom".

[6] KOUSEMAKER, Kees en Evelien, "Wordt Vervolgd- Stripleksikon der Lage Landen", Uitgeverij Het Spectrum, Utrecht, Antwerpen, 1979, page 195

[7] "Manuel Vázquez Gallego". lambiek.net. Retrieved May 12, 2020.

[7-8] "Charles M. Schulz". lambiek.net. Retrieved February 2, 2021.

[9] Daniels, Les (1995). DC Comics : Sixty Years of the World's Favorite Comic Book Heroes. Bulfinch. p. 103. ISBN 0821220764. The eighth issue of Strange Adventures achieved some sort of classic status. The cover showed a gorilla in a zoo holding up a slate that read 'Please believe me! I am the victim of a terrible scientific experiment!' This 'Incredible Story of an Ape with a Human Brain' had strong sales, and [editor Julius] Schwartz recalls that 'Irwin Donenfeld called me in and said we should try it again. Finally all the editors wanted to use gorilla covers.'

[10] Strange Adventures #8 at the Grand Comics Database

[11] "Tom Poes Weekblad". www.lambiek.net. Retrieved May 12, 2020.

[12] Maurice Horn. The World encyclopedia of comics. Chelsea House Publishers, 1976.

[12-13] "Charles M. Schulz". lambiek.net. Retrieved February 2, 2021.

[13-14] "Charles M. Schulz". lambiek.net. Retrieved February 2, 2021.

[15] "Willy Vandersteen". lambiek.net. Retrieved May 12, 2020.

[16] "SanomaWSOY Corporation - Company Profile". Reference for Business. Retrieved 9 April 2015.

[17] "Paul Braig". lambiek.net. Retrieved December 16, 2020.

[18] "Will Eisner". lambiek.net. Retrieved May 12, 2020.

[19] "John Gee". lambiek.net. Retrieved May 12, 2020.

[20] "J. H. Koeleman jr". lambiek.net. Retrieved May 12, 2020.

[21] ttps://www.lambiek.net/artists/c/chenechot_maurice.htm

[22] "Nelly Bodenheim". lambiek.net. Retrieved May 12, 2020.

[23] "Harry Hemsley". lambiek.net. Retrieved May 12, 2020.

[24] "Gustave-Henri Jossot". lambiek.net. Retrieved May 12, 2020.

[25] "Henry Yoshitaka Kiyama". lambiek.net. Retrieved May 12, 2020.

[26] "Clifford McBride". lambiek.net. Retrieved May 12, 2020.

[27] "Dudley Fisher". lambiek.net. Retrieved May 12, 2020.

[28] ttps://www.lambiek.net/artists/t/trier_walter.htm

[29] "William Randolph Hearst". lambiek.net. Retrieved May 12, 2020.

[30] "Antoni Muntañola". lambiek.net. Retrieved May 12, 2020.

[31] "Prince, William Meade | NCpedia". www.ncpedia.org. Retrieved May 12, 2020.

[32] "William Meade Prince". lambiek.net. Retrieved May 12, 2020.

[33] "J. P. Arnot". lambiek.net. Retrieved May 12, 2020.

[34] "Bernard Graddon". lambiek.net. Retrieved May 12, 2020.

[35] "uBC". www.ubcfumetti.com. Retrieved 2019-04-16.

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