1966 in comics

Notable events of 1966 in comics. See also List of years in comics.


Events and publications

Year overall

January

February

March

April

May

June

Summer

July

August

September

November

December

Deaths

January

  • January 20: Pieter Kuhn, Dutch comics artist (Kapitein Rob), dies at age 55.[3]

March

April

July

  • July 16: Leslie Elton, American animator and comics artist (Jack Daw's Adventures), dies at age 72.[20]

August

  • August 24: Boris Angelushev, Bulgarian caricaturist, illustrator and comics artist, passes away at age 63.[21]

December

Specific date unknown

  • Louis Diamond, British comics artist (Mikey Midge the Merry Midget), dies at age 61 or 62.[23]
  • Jeff Hayes, American comics artist (continued Adamson's Adventures as Silent Sam), dies at age 62 or 63.[24]
  • Ed Wheelan, American cartoonist (Minute Movies), dies at age 80.[25]

Conventions

First issues by title

Harvey Comics

Bunny
Release: December.
Double-Dare Adventures
Release: December. Writer: Otto Binder. Artist: Bill Draut
Spyman
Release: September. Artists: George Tuska, Jim Steranko, Dick Ayers

Other publishers

Comandante Mark - Sergio Bonelli editore

Release: September Artist: EsseGesse

Fantasy Masterpieces — Marvel Comics
Release: February. Editor: Stan Lee
Gesebel — Editoriale Corno
Release: February. Writer: Max Bunker. Artist: Magnus
Henry Brewster — M. F. Enterprises
Release: February. Writer: Bob Powell. Artist: Bob Powell
Lady Penelope — City Magazines
Release: 22 January.
Peter Cannon, Thunderbolt — Charlton Comics
Release: January. Writer: Pete Morisi. Artist: Pete Morisi
Smash! — International Publishing Corporation
Release: February 1966. Editor: Albert Cosser ("Cos")

Teddy Bob - Astorina

Release: July - Artist: Pier Carpi

Teen Titans — DC Comics
Release: January. Writer: Bob Haney. Artist: Nick Cardy
Undersea Agent — Tower Comics
Release: January. Artist: Ray Bailey
Weird (listed as vol. 1, #10) — Eerie Publications
Release: January. Editor: Roger Elwood
witzend — Wally Wood (self-published)
Release: Summer. Editor: Wally Wood
Zorro — Gold Key Comics
Release: January. Artist: Alex Toth

Initial appearances by character name

Charlton Comics

DC Comics

Harvey Comics

Marvel Comics

Other publishers

References

  1. ↑ https://www.lambiek.net/artists/f/funke_kupper_t.htm
  2. ↑ BDoubliées. "Tintin année 1966" (in French).
  3. 1 2 https://www.lambiek.net/artists/k/kuhn.htm
  4. ↑ https://www.lambiek.net/artists/w/west_bob.htm
  5. ↑ https://www.lambiek.net/artists/p/peyo.htm
  6. ↑ https://www.lambiek.net/artists/v/verdier_ed.htm
  7. ↑ Fox, M. Steven. "Lenny of Laredo," ComixJoint. Accessed Nov. 24, 2016.
  8. ↑ Filippini, Henri (1997). Encyclopédie de la bande dessinée érotique (in French). La Musardine. p. 73. ISBN 2-84271-082-7.
  9. ↑ Lambiek Comiclopedia. "John M. Burns".
  10. ↑ https://www.lambiek.net/artists/l/lodewijk.htm
  11. ↑ https://www.lambiek.net/artists/c/coker_jr_paul.htm
  12. ↑ http://www.enjolrasworld.com/Richard%20Arndt/Witzend%20Index.htm
  13. ↑ McAvennie "1960s" in Dolan, p. 118: "In his first-ever published story, fourteen-year-old Jim Shooter admitted four new members into the Legion of Super-Heroes ... Shooter's long, memorable tenure as one of the Legion's greatest writers was officially underway."
  14. ↑ McAvennie "1960s" in Dolan, p. 119: "Barry Allen and iris West's wedding day...was {DC's} most anticipated...Writer John Broome and artist Carmine Infantino were the team behind the nuptials in the story 'One Bridegroom Too Many!'"
  15. ↑ https://www.lambiek.net/artists/a/angiolini_sandro.htm
  16. ↑ https://www.lambiek.net/artists/w/willebeek_le_mair_h.htm
  17. ↑ Jesse Marsh at INDUCKS
  18. ↑ https://www.lambiek.net/artists/m/marsh_jesse.htm
  19. ↑ https://www.lambiek.net/artists/p/parker_gladys.htm
  20. ↑ https://www.lambiek.net/artists/e/elton_leslie.htm
  21. ↑ https://www.lambiek.net/artists/a/angelushev_boris.htm
  22. ↑ https://www.lambiek.net/artists/d/disney.htm
  23. ↑ https://www.lambiek.net/artists/d/diamond_louis.htm
  24. ↑ https://www.lambiek.net/artists/h/hayes_jeff.htm
  25. ↑ https://www.lambiek.net/artists/w/wheelan_e.htm
  26. 1 2 3 Schelly, Bill. "The Kaler Con: Two Views: Bigger And Better Than The Benson Con Just Three Weeks Before?? (Part VIII of '1966: The Year Of (Nearly) Three New York Comics Conventions')," Alter-Ego #64 (Jan. 2007).
  27. ↑ Schelly, Bill. "1966: The Year Of THREE (Or Maybe 21/2) New York Comicons!: Part 2: The 1966 New York 'Benson' Con," Alter-Ego #54 (Nov. 2005).
  28. ↑ Schelly, Bill. Founders of Comic Fandom: Profiles of 90 Publishers, Dealers, Collectors, Writers, Artists and Other Luminaries of the 1950s And 1960s (McFarland, 2010), p. 60.
  29. ↑ Schelly, Bill. "Introduction," Founders of Comic Fandom: Profiles of 90 Publishers, Dealers, Collectors, Writers, Artists and Other Luminaries of the 1950s and 1960s (McFarland, 2010), p. 8
  30. ↑ McAvennie "1960s" in Dolan, p. 118: "With a story written by Jim Shooter and drawn by Al Plastino, the Parasite entered Superman's life."
  31. ↑ McAvennie "1960s" in Dolan, p. 118: "Poison Ivy first cropped up to plague Gotham City in issue #181 of Batman. Scripter Robert Kanigher and artist Sheldon Moldoff came up with a villain who would blossom into one of Batman's greatest foes"
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