1945 in comics

Notable events of 1945 in comics. See also List of years in comics.


Events and publications

Year overall

  • Real Screen Funnies debuts with a Spring 1945 cover date. The title changes to Real Screen Comics with the second issue (Summer 1945) and features The Fox and the Crow and other Columbia-licensed funny animal characters.[1] - (National Comics)
  • Wim Meuldijk creates his newspaper comic Ketelbinkie, which will become so popular that it inspires its own magazine. [2]

January

February

March

April

May


June

July

August

September

October

  • October 15: The first issue of the Dutch comics magazine Stripfilm is published.[6]
  • October 22: The first episode of Phiny Dick's Olle Kapoen is published. Coen van Hunnik provides artwork but is later replaced by Richard Klokkers. The series will run until 15 November 1955. [7]
  • Belgian comics publisher Fernand Cheneval founds the first issue of the comics magazine Heroïc Albums. It will run until December 1956.[8]
  • Captain America Comics (1941 series) #50 - Timely Comics
  • Human Torch (1940 series) #20 - Timely Comics
  • Sub-Mariner Comics (1941 series) #17 - Timely Comics
  • U.S.A. Comics (1941 series) #17 - Timely Comics

November

December

Deaths

January

  • January 3: Georges Colomb (Christophe), French botanist and comics artist (La Famille Fenouillard), dies at the age of 88.[12]

February

March

  • March 20: Johannes Franciscus Nuijens (Korporaal Achilles), Dutch teacher and comics artist (Het Rapport der Defensiecommissie toegelicht en eenigszins uitgebreid door Korporaal Achilles, De Toekomststaat (Een Nachtmerrie Fin de Siècle). Visioenen en Droombeelden uit de 20ste eeuw, Klacht van een Onderwijzer over De Vrije & Orde Oefeningen op de Lagere School and Aanleiding tot den Engelsch-Transvaalschen Oorlog), dies at the age of 78.[14]
  • March 31: Gaietà Cornet, Spanish caricaturist, illustrator and comics artist, passes away at age 66 or 67. [15]

September

December

Specific date unknown

  • Frank Holland, British comics artist (Those Terrible Twins), passes away at age 73. [18]

First issues by title


Initial appearances by character name

References

  1. ↑ Wallace, Daniel; Dolan, Hannah, ed. (2010). "1940s". DC Comics Year By Year A Visual Chronicle. Dorling Kindersley. ISBN 978-0-7566-6742-9.
  2. ↑ https://www.lambiek.net/artists/m/meuldijk.htm
  3. ↑ https://www.lambiek.net/artists/b/buettner_carl.htm
  4. ↑ KOUSEMAKER, Kees en Evelien, "Wordt Vervolgd- Stripleksikon der Lage Landen", Uitgeverij Het Spectrum, Utrecht, Antwerpen, 1979, page 185.
  5. 1 2 Lambiek Comiclopedia. "Willy Vandersteen". Archived from the original on 5 May 2007. Retrieved 17 June 2007.
  6. ↑ https://www.lambiek.net/aanvang/stripfilm.htm
  7. ↑ https://www.lambiek.net/artists/d/dick_p.htm
  8. ↑ https://www.lambiek.net/artists/c/cheneval_fernand.htm
  9. ↑ Van Hooydonck, Peter (March 1994). Biografie Willy Vandersteen. De Bruegel van het beeldverhaal (in Dutch) (2nd ed.). Antwerp: Standaard Uitgeverij. page 60.
  10. ↑ https://www.lambiek.net/artists/s/sleen.htm
  11. ↑ https://www.lambiek.net/artists/t/toonder.htm
  12. ↑ https://www.lambiek.net/artists/c/christophe.htm
  13. ↑ https://www.lambiek.net/artists/k/keaton_russell.htm
  14. ↑ https://www.lambiek.net/artists/k/korporaal-achilles.htm
  15. ↑ https://www.lambiek.net/artists/c/cornet_gaieta.htm
  16. ↑ "Koenigsberg Dies; Newspaper Expert; Former Hearst Executive Was Founder of King Features—Began Career When 9 Took Prize for Essay Decoration Returned", The New York Times, September 1945.
  17. ↑ https://www.lambiek.net/artists/j/jacobsson_oscar.htm
  18. ↑ https://www.lambiek.net/artists/h/holland-frank.htm
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