October 16: In the first narrative of Dick Tracy the father of Tess Trueheart is murdered, which is the first instance of a cold-blooded murder appearing uncensored in a comic strip. [7]
November
November 27: The final issue of the Spanish comics magazine Pinocho is published. [8]
December
December 26: The first episode of the biblical text comicIllustrated Sunday School Lesson is published. It will run until 26 February 1973. [9]
Captain Roscoe Fawcett and Bruno Thompson's Screen Oddities, a daily comic about the lives of Hollywood stars, is first published. [18]
Deaths
January
January 21: C. W. Kahles, German-American comics artist (Hairbreadth Harry), dies at age 63 from a heart attack. [2]
May
May 19: Ralph Barton, American caricaturist, cartoonist and comics artist (worked for The New Yorker), commits suicide at age 39. [19]
May 28: Guydo, French comics artist, illustrator and novelist, dies at age 62. [20]
August
August 25: Marcel Arnac, French novelist, illustrator, comics writer and artist (Les Désopilantes Aventures de Trouillet Détective and other one-shot comics), passes away at age 44 in an accident. [21]
September
September 15: Jacques Marie Gaston Onfroy de Bréville, aka Job, French illustrator, caricaturist and painter, dies at age 72. [22]
^Shapiro, Associate Librarian and Lecturer in Legal Research Fred R.; Shapiro, Fred R. (12 August 2018). "The Yale Book of Quotations". Yale University Press – via Google Books.
