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Notable events of '''1946 in comics'''. ==Events and publications==
=== January === *'''January 6''': ''Hildie and the Kid Gang'', by Will Eisner. *'''January 23''': In Italy, the first number of ''Albi dell’intrepido'' by Editrice Universo, is published. *''Captain America Comics'' (1941 series) #52 - Timely Comics *''Joker Comics'' (1942 series) #21 - Timely Comics * ''Marvel Mystery Comics'' (1939 series) #68 - Timely Comics * In ''Walt Disney's Comics and Stories'' Carl Barks' ''Donald Duck'' story ''Donald tames his temper'' is first published.
===February=== * '''February 2''': Jean Dulieu's ''Paulus de Boskabouter (Paulus the woodgnome)'' debuts in ''Het Vrije Volk''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.lambiek.net/artists/d/dulieu.htm|title=Jean Dulieu|website=lambiek.net|accessdate=May 18, 2020}}</ref> * '''February 7''': Buth's ''Thomas Pips'' makes its debut in ''Het Volk''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.lambiek.net/artists/b/buth.htm|title=Buth|website=lambiek.net|accessdate=May 18, 2020}}</ref> * ''Captain Aero Comics'' (1941 series) #25 - Helnit Publishing *''Captain America Comics'' (1941 series) #53 - Timely Comics *''Marvel Mystery Comics'' (1939 series) #69 - Timely Comics
===March=== * '''March 1''': The National Cartoonists Society is established, along with the annual award, the Billy DeBeck Memorial Award, which will be renamed the Reuben Award in 1954.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.tcj.com/|title=The Comics Journal|first=Tucker|last=Stone|accessdate=May 18, 2020}}</ref> * '''March 3''': Milton Caniff's ''Male Call'' comes to its conclusion after three years of newspaper publication.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.lambiek.net/artists/c/caniff.htm|title=Milton Caniff|website=lambiek.net|accessdate=May 18, 2020}}</ref> * '''March 4''': Alex Raymond's ''Rip Kirby'' makes its debut.<ref>{{cite web| publisher =Don Markstein's Toonopedia| title =Rip Kirby| url =http://www.toonopedia.com/ripkirby.htm| accessdate =January 19, 2017| archivedate =2024-05-28| archiveurl =https://archive.today/20240528011546/https://www.webcitation.org/6ndwOFnH0?url=http://toonopedia.com/ripkirby.htm| url-status =live| work =Don Markstein's Toonopedia}}</ref> with ''The Chip Faraday Murder''. The series will run until 1996. <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.lambiek.net/artists/r/raymond.htm|title=Alex Raymond|website=lambiek.net|access-date=August 5, 2021}}</ref> *'''March 12''': The first issue of the comics magazine ''Treasure Chest'' is published.<ref>[http://www.aladin0.wrlc.org/gsdl/cgi-bin/library?e=d-01000-00---off-0treasure--00-1--0-10-0---0---0prompt-10---4-------0-1l--11-en-50---20-home---01-3-1-00-0-0-11-0-0utfZz-8-00&a=d&cl=CL6.1&d=HASH01f8379662cc50b0be39da47 ''Treasure Chest of Fun & Facts'' Vol. 1, No. 1. March 12, 1946] at WRLC Libraries. [https://web.archive.org/web/20120128105114/http://www.aladin0.wrlc.org/gsdl/cgi-bin/library?e=d-01000-00---off-0treasure--00-1--0-10-0---0---0prompt-10---4-------0-1l--11-en-50---20-home---01-3-1-00-0-0-11-0-0utfZz-8-00&a=d&cl=CL6.1&d=HASH01f8379662cc50b0be39da47 Archived] from the original on May 3, 2012.</ref> *'''March 24''': Will Eisner's ''The Spirit'' story ''The Last Trolley'' aka ''The Man who Killed the Spirit'' is first published. *''Captain America Comics'' (1941 series) #54 - Timely Comics *''Marvel Mystery Comics'' (1939 series) #70 - Timely Comics *''Young Allies Comics'' (1941 series) #19 - Timely Comics *''Master Ice-Fisher'' by Carl Barks, in ''Walt Disney's Comics and Stories.''
===April=== * '''April 15''': Ed Dodd's newspaper comic ''Mark Trail'' is first published in the ''New York Post.''<ref name=toonopedia>{{cite web|url=http://www.toonopedia.com/mrktrail.htm|title=Mark Trail|work=Don Markstein's Toonopedia|archiveurl=https://archive.today/20120918021702/http://www.toonopedia.com/mrktrail.htm|archive-date=September 18, 2012| url-status=live}}</ref> * '''April 22''': First publication of Machiko Hasegawa's manga series ''Sazae-san'' in Fukunichi Shimbun.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.lambiek.net/artists/h/hasegawa_machiko.htm|title=Machiko Hasegawa|website=lambiek.net|accessdate=May 18, 2020}}</ref> *''Captain America Comics'' (1941 series) #55 - Timely Comics *''Human Torch Comics'' (1940 series) #22 - Timely Comics *''Joker Comics'' (1942 series) #22 - Timely Comics *''Marvel Mystery Comics'' (1939 series) #71 - Timely Comics *''Sub-Mariner Comics'' (1941 series) #19 - Timely Comics *''The Hicks formula,'' by Alex Raymond, second adventure of Rip Kirby.
===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. *''Captain America Comics'' (1941 series) #56 - Timely Comics *''Marvel Mystery Comics'' (1939 series) #72 - Timely Comics * The first number of ''Albi d’Oro'' (Golden albums), anthological magazine edited by Mondadori, centered moreover on the Disney comics.
===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.<ref name="auto">{{Cite web|url=https://www.lambiek.net/artists/w/wolverton.htm|title=Basil Wolverton|website=lambiek.net|accessdate=May 18, 2020}}</ref> *''All-Winners Comics'' (1941 series) #18 - Timely Comics *''Cat-Man Comics'' (1941 series) #31 - Helnit Publishing *''Joker Comics'' (1942 series) #23 - Timely Comics *''Marvel Mystery Comics'' (1939 series) #73 - Timely Comics *''Sub-Mariner Comics'' (1941 series) #20 - Timely Comics *''Suspense Comics'' (1943 series) #11 - Continental Magazines * In the ''Rip Kirby'' story ''Liquid murder,'' by Alex Raymond Rip Kirby meets his nemesis, the Mangler.
===July=== * '''July 5''': Hans G. Kresse's ''Eric de Noorman'' debuts in ''Het Laatste Nieuws''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.lambiek.net/artists/k/kresse.htm|title=Hans G. Kresse|website=lambiek.net|accessdate=May 18, 2020}}</ref> * '''July 7''': The first episode of the newspaper comic ''Priscilla's Pop'' by Al Vermeer appears in print. <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.lambiek.net/artists/v/vermeer_al.htm|title=Al Vermeer|website=lambiek.net|access-date=August 16, 2023}}</ref> * '''July 14''': In Will Eisner's ''The Spirit'' the recurring villain ''Octopus'' makes his debut. *'''July 15''': The first issue of ''Fantax magazine'' is published. The character, by Marcel Navarro and Pierre Mouchot, had debuted two months earlier on ''Paris-Monde Illustré.'' *''Captain America Comics'' (1941 series) #57 - Timely Comics *''Human Torch Comics'' (1940 series) #23 - Timely Comics *''Marvel Mystery Comics'' (1939 series) #74 - Timely Comics * In the French weekly magazine ''Vaillant'', organ of MJCF, the first adventure of the pilot Bob Mallard starts serialisation, scripted by Henry Bourdens and drawn by Rémy Bourlès.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.lambiek.net/artists/b/bourles_remy.htm|title=Rémy Bourlès|website=lambiek.net|accessdate=February 20, 2025}}</ref>
===August=== * '''August 1''': Willy Vandersteen's ''De Vrolijke Bengels'' (1946-1954) makes its debut in Ons Volkske.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.lambiek.net/artists/v/vandersteen.htm|title=Willy Vandersteen|website=lambiek.net|accessdate=May 18, 2020}}</ref> * '''August 12''': The ''Buck Rogers'' story ''Battle on the Moon'' starts serialisation. * '''August 26''': In Chester Gould's ''Dick Tracy'' Breathless Mahoney is killed.<ref>''The Complete Dick Tracy, Volume 10'' by Chester Gould, IDW Publishing (2010)</ref> * ''Captain Aero Comics'' (1941 series) #26 - Helnit Publishing, Final Issue * ''Cat-Man Comics'' (1941 series) #32 - Helnit Publishing, Final Issue *''Green Mask'' (1945 series) #5 - Fox Feature Syndicate *''Marvel Mystery Comics'' (1939 series) #75 - Timely Comics
===September=== *'''September 2''': The Chicago Tribune Syndicate publishes the first episode of ''Aggie Mack'' by Hal Rasmusson. <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.lambiek.net/artists/r/rasmusson_hal.htm|title=Hal Rasmusson}}</ref> *'''September 7''': The first number of ''Albi dell’ardimento'' (Bravery albums), an anthological magazine is published, edited by Edizioni Alpe, centering on Western comics. * '''September 9''': ''Honey and Hank'', aka ''Elsworth'' by Bernard Segal, aka Seeg, makes its debut. It will run until 1958.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.lambiek.net/artists/s/seeg.htm|title=Bernard Segal}}</ref> *'''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''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.dandare.info/history/fleet_index.htm|title=Complete AP / Fleetway Comic Index|website=www.dandare.info|accessdate=May 18, 2020|archive-date=September 14, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190914032811/http://www.dandare.info/history/fleet_index.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref> *'''September 23''': The Mickey Mouse story ''Mickey’s menagerie'', by Floyd Gottfredson and Bill Walsh is first published. * '''September 26''': ** The first issue of the Belgian comics magazine ''{{lang|fr|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.<ref name="BDO-T46">{{cite web|last=BDoubliées |title=Tintin année 1946 |url=http://bdoubliees.com/tintinbelge/annees/1946.htm |language=French |accessdate=17 June 2007 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070709035902/http://bdoubliees.com/tintinbelge/annees/1946.htm |archivedate=9 July 2007 |url-status=live }}</ref> ** Edgar P. Jacobs' ''Blake and Mortimer'' by Edgar P. Jacobs debuts in ''Tintin'', with their first story, ''The Secret of the Swordfish''. This marks the debuts of Blake, Mortimer and recurring antagonist Olrik. <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.lambiek.net/artists/j/jacobs.htm|title=Edgar Pierre Jacobs|website=lambiek.net|accessdate=May 18, 2020}}</ref> ** Paul Cuvelier's ''Corentin'' debuts in ''Tintin''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.lambiek.net/artists/c/cuvelier.htm|title=Paul Cuvelier|website=lambiek.net|accessdate=May 18, 2020}}</ref> * '''September 30''': ''National Periodical Publications'' is established, from a merger of All-American Publications and Detective Comics, Inc. *''All-Winners Comics'' (1941 series) #19 - Timely Comics *''Captain America Comics'' (1941 series) #58 - Timely Comics *''Joker Comics'' (1942 series) #24 - Timely Comics *''Marvel Mystery Comics'' (1939 series) #76 - Timely Comics *''Sub-Mariner Comics'' (1941 series) #21 - Timely Comics *''Suspense Comics'' (1943 series) #12 - Continental Magazines, Final Issue
===October=== * '''October 1''': Jack Dunkley's educational comic ''Patsy'' makes its debut. It will run until 1951. <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.lambiek.net/artists/d/dunkley_jack.htm|title=Jack Dunkley|website=lambiek.net|accessdate=July 18, 2024}}</ref> * '''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.<ref name="auto"/> *'''October 26''': In the Italian Disney magazine ''Topolino'', the SF series ''Saturno contro la Terra'' (Saturn vs. Earth), by Cesare Zavattini, Federico Pedrocchi and Giovanni Scolari is concluded. It had run since 1936, with a two-year break-up because of the war.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.lfb.it/fff/fumetto/pers/s/saturno.htm|title=FFF - Saturno contro la Terra|website=www.lfb.it|access-date=2020-02-14}}</ref> *Cesare Solini and Antonio Canale's ''Amok'' makes its debut.<ref>{{cite web|title=Young April 12, 1948 Findings of Facts|url=https://www.scribd.com/doc/298839638/Young-April-12-1948-Findings-of-Facts|website=Scribd|accessdate=11 December 2016|quote=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.}}</ref> *''Green Mask'' (1945 series) #6 - Fox Feature Syndicate, final issue. *''Human Torch Comics'' (1940 series) #24 - Timely Comics *''Marvel Mystery Comics'' (1939 series) #77 - Timely Comics *''Young Allies Comics'' (1941 series) #20 - Timely Comics - (Final Issue) *''Ipnos il re della magia'' (''Ipnos, King of Magic''), by Gian Luigi Bonelli and Carlo Cossio, edited by Edizioni Audace is first published, an Italian imitation of Mandrake the Magician.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=34751|title=Ipnos N-07 (Italian Language Books)|website=Comic Book Plus|language=en|access-date=2020-02-14}}</ref>
===November=== * '''November 15''': First publication of the Filipino comics magazine ''Halakhak Komiks''. *''All-Winners Comics'' (1941 series) #21 - Timely Comics - (Issue #20 was never released, and issue #21 was the final one.) *''Captain America Comics'' (1941 series) #59 - Timely Comics *''Human Torch Comics'' (1940 series) #25 - Timely Comics *''Joker Comics'' (1942 series) #25 - Timely Comics *''Marvel Mystery Comics'' (1939 series) #78 - Timely Comics
===December=== * '''December 7''': First appearance of ''Lucky Luke'' and his trusty horse Jolly Jumper by Morris, in ''Spirou'' with the story ''Arizona 1880''.<ref name="BDO-S46">{{Cite web|last=BDOubliées |title=Spirou année 1946 |url=http://bdoubliees.com/journalspirou/annees/1946.htm |language=French |accessdate=17 June 2007 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070711222714/http://www.bdoubliees.com/journalspirou/annees/1946.htm |archivedate=11 July 2007 |url-status=live }}</ref> *'''December 12''': In the French magazine ''OK'', the first chapter of ''Arys Buck et son Épée Magique'' (''Arys Buck and his Magical Sword''), by Albert Uderzo is published. In 1946 he also publishes his first album, ''Les Aventures de Clopinard''. * '''December 23''': Marten Toonder's ''Panda'' makes its newspaper debut. <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.lambiek.net/artists/t/toonder.htm|title=Marten Toonder|website=lambiek.net|accessdate=May 18, 2020}}</ref> *''Marvel Mystery Comics'' (1939 series) #79 - Timely Comics *In ''Vaillant'', Nasdine Hodja, by Roger Lecaux, a sort of Robin Hood living in the ''Arabian nights''’ world, makes his debut.
=== Year overall === *John Willie creates the Sweet Gwendolyne character in the erotic magazine ''Bizarre'', published by himself. <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.lambiek.net/artists/w/willie_john.htm|title=John Willie}}</ref> *In ''Il vittorioso'', Benito Jacovitti publishes a comic version of Collodi’s ''The adventures of Pinocchio''.
==Births== ===February=== * '''February 20''': Norbert Morandière, aka Norma, French comics artist (''Capitaine Apache'', ''Souvenirs de la Pendule'', ''Hazel et Ogan''), (d. 2021).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.lambiek.net/artists/n/norma.htm|title=Norma (Norbert Morandière)|website=Lambiek.net|access-date=January 1, 2021}}</ref>
===May===
* '''May 13''': Marv Wolfman, American comic book writer (''Teen Titans'', ''Spider-Man'', ''Daredevil'').
===November=== * '''November 12''': Kazuyoshi Torii, Japanese manga artist, (d. 2022).<ref>[https://www.tokyo-np.co.jp/article/160923 鳥居一義さん死去 漫画家、愛知淑徳大教授] {{in lang|ja}}</ref> * '''November 29''': Carlos Leopardi, Argentine comics artist (''Atila'', worked on ''Nippur de Lagash''), (d. 2004).<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.lambiek.net/artists/l/leopardi_carlos.htm|title = Carlos Leopardi}}</ref>
==Deaths==
===January=== * '''January 2''': O'Galop, French painter, illustrator, graphic designer, animator and comics artist (''Le Supplice de la Roue'', ''Fifi Céleri''), dies at age 78.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.lambiek.net/artists/o/o-galop.htm|title=O'Galop|website=lambiek.net|accessdate=May 18, 2020}}</ref> * '''March 2''': Don Newhouse, British comics artist (''Bertie Blobbs'', comics based on Charlie Chaplin, continued ''Pitch and Toss, Our Saucy Shipwrecked Mariners''), dies at age 62.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.lambiek.net/artists/n/newhouse_don.htm|title=Don Newhouse|website=lambiek.net|accessdate=May 18, 2020}}</ref>
===March=== * '''March 29''': Benjamin Kilvert, A.K.A. Benjamin Cory, American illustrator, painter and comics artist (''Muffy Shuffles''), dies at age 66. <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.lambiek.net/artists/k/kilvert_sb-cory.htm|title=Benjamin Kilvert|website=lambiek.net|accessdate=March 30, 2021}}</ref>
===June=== * '''June 15''': Charles Forbell, American comics artist (''Naughty Pete''), dies at age 71.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.lambiek.net/artists/f/forbell_c.htm|title=Charles Forbell|website=lambiek.net|accessdate=May 18, 2020}}</ref>
===August=== * '''August 3''': Viktor Deni, Russian cartoonist and poster designer (made sequential propaganda cartoons and comics), dies at age 53.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.lambiek.net/artists/d/deni_viktor.htm|title=Viktor Deni|website=lambiek.net|accessdate=May 18, 2020}}</ref>
===September=== * '''September 3''': Constant Dratz, Belgian painter, poster artist and comic artist (''L'Étrange Aventure de Tom-Tom aux Amériques''), dies at age 71. <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.lambiek.net/artists/d/dratz_constant.htm|title=Constant Dratz|website=lambiek.net|accessdate=December 11, 2022}}</ref> * '''September 16''': Francisque Poulbot, French illustrator and cartoonist, dies at age 67.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.lambiek.net/artists/p/poulbot.htm|title=Francisque Poulbot|website=lambiek.net|accessdate=May 18, 2020}}</ref>
===October=== * '''October 5''': Monte Crews, American illustrator and comic artist (''The Mysterious Family Next Door''), dies at age 88. <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.lambiek.net/artists/c/crews_monte.htm|title=Monte Crews|website=lambiek.net|accessdate=July 18, 2022}}</ref> * '''October 24''': Dmitry Moor, Russian artist, poster designer and cartoonist, dies at age 62.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.lambiek.net/artists/m/moor_dmitry.htm|title=Dmitry Moor|website=lambiek.net|accessdate=September 14, 2020}}</ref>
===Specific date unknown=== * Albert Lanmour, French illustrator and comics artist (''Les Années de Service de Théodore Tiroflan'', ''Le Hoquet d'Hector Boyaux''), dies at age 58 or 59.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.lambiek.net/artists/l/lanmour_albert.htm|title = Albert Lanmour}}</ref> * Red W. Shellcope, American comics artist (''Jimmie the Messenger Boy''), dies at age 66 or 67.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.lambiek.net/artists/s/shellcope_red.htm|title=Red W. Shellcope|website=lambiek.net|accessdate=May 18, 2020}}</ref>
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==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== {{reflist}}
Category:1946 in comics