1949 in comics
Notable events of 1949 in comics. See also List of years in comics.
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Events and publications
Publishers Star Publications, Toby Press, and Youthful make their debuts; conversely, Columbia Comics, Novelty Press, and Street & Smith Comics all fold.
Year overall
January
- January 22: Peyo's gag comic Poussy is first published in Le Soir. [1]
- Captain America Comics (1941 series) #70 - Timely Comics
- Human Torch Comics (1940 series) #34 - Timely Comics
- Jughead #1 - Archie Comics
February
- Lana (1948 series) #4 - Timely Comics
- Marvel Mystery Comics (1939 series) #90 - Timely Comics
- Sub-Mariner Comics (1941 series) #30 - Timely Comics
- Two-Gun Kid (1948 series) #6 - Timely Comics
March
- Captain America Comics (1941 series) #71 - Timely Comics
- Human Torch Comics (1940 series) #35 - Timely Comics - (The series will be cancelled for five years)
- Nipper, by Doug Wright, debuts in the March 12 issue of The Montreal Standard. The weekly comic strip would run until 1980 in magazines distributed across Canada.
April
- April 9: The final issue of the Italian Disney comics magazine Topolino is published. It becomes a digest instead.
- April 25: First publication of Wally Fawkes' (aka Trog) Flook in The Daily Mail. [2]
- Captain America Comics (1941 series) #72 - Timely Comics
- Lana (1948 series) #5 - Timely Comics
- Marvel Mystery Comics (1939 series) #91 - Timely Comics
- Sub-Mariner Comics (1941 series) #31 - Timely Comics
- Two-Gun Kid (1948 series) #7 - Timely Comics
- Venus (1948 series) #4 - Timely Comics
May
- May 22: First publication of Warren Tufts' Casey Ruggles as a Sunday strip. It will become a daily strip on 19 September. [3]
- The final issue of the Belgian comics magazine Wrill is published.
June
- Lana (1948 series) #6 - Timely Comics
- Marvel Mystery Comics (1939 series) #92. The final issue under this title; with the next issue it changes title and format to Marvel Tales - Timely Comics
- Sub-Mariner Comics (1941 series) #32 - Timely Comics - (The series will be cancelled for five years)
- Two-Gun Kid (1948 series) #8 - Timely Comics
- Venus (1948 series) #5 - Timely Comics
- Western Winners, with issue #5, takes over the numbering of All-Western Winners — Atlas Comics
July
- July 10: Jules Feiffer's gag comic Clifford, which appeared earlier this year during the spring in Will Eisner's one-shot Kewpies, is now moved to The Spirit comic book magazine as a back cover feature. It will run until 4 March 1951. [4]
- Captain America Comics (1941 series) #73 - Timely Comics - (The series will be renamed to Captain America's Weird Tales)
August
- August 4: Halfway the prepublication of The Adventures of Tintin story Land of Black Gold in Tintin Hergé leaves to take a 12-week resting vacation in Switzerland, because he suffered from clinical depression. The story won't be continued until 27 October. [5] [6]
- August 13: First publication of Pepo's Condorito.[7][8]
- Best Love debuts with issue #33, taking over the numbering of Sub-Mariner Comics - Timely Comics
- Big Shot, with issue #104, is cancelled by Columbia Comics
- Girls' Love Stories (1949 series) #1 - DC Comics
- Lana (1948 series) #7 - Timely Comics
- Marvel Tales debuts with issue #93, taking over the numbering of Marvel Mystery Comics - Timely Comics
- Two-Gun Kid (1948 series) #9 - Timely Comics
- Venus (1948 series) #6 - Timely Comics
September
- September 11: The episode Ten Minutes, in the series The Spirit, is first published. This marks the first story written by Will Eisner's assistant Jules Feiffer, who will continue writing most of the series until 1952. [4]
October
- Captain America's Weird Tales (1941 series) #74 - Timely Comics
- Cowboy Romances (1939 series) #1 - Timely Comics
- Alfred Harvey and Vic Herman's Little Dot makes her debut in Little Max Comics # 1. [9]
- The final issue of Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster's Slam Bradley is published.
November
- Boy Commandos (1942 series), with issue #36 dated November–December, cancelled by DC Comics.
- Little Lana (1948 series) #8 - Timely Comics - (Lana was renamed to Little Lana)
- Marvel Tales (1939 series) #94 - Timely Comics
- Two-Gun Kid (1948 series), with issue #10, cancelled by Timely Comics. (The title would be revived four years later by Marvel, continuing the numbering.)
- Venus (1948 series) #8 - Timely Comics
December
- December 3: First publication of Pecos Bill by Guido Martina and Raffaele Paparella. [10]
- December 15: The final issue of the Dutch comics magazine Doe Mee is published. [11]
- Cowboy Romances (1939 series) #2 - Timely Comics
- True Western (1939 series) #1 - Timely Comics
Specific date unknown
- The first episode of Roland Davies' Sparks and Flash is published. [12]
Deaths
February
- February 15: Charles L. Bartholomew, Bart, American comics artist (Cousin Bill, George and his Conscience, Bud Smith, the Boy Who Does Stunts, Alexander the Cat, Mama's Girl-Daddy's Boy), dies at age 80. [13]
March
- March 6: Storm P., Danish comics artist, animator, illustrator, painter and comedian (Peter og Ping), passes away at the age of 66.[14]
- March 16: Stanley E. Armstrong, American comics artist (continued Slim Jim And The Force), passes away at age 85. [15]
- March 21: Jo Valle, French comics writer (L'Espiègle Lili), dies at age 83. [16]
April
- 24 April: Reg Carter, British comics artist (Big Eggo) dies at the age of 62.[17]
May
- May 12: Neysa McMein, American illustrator, painter and comics artist (Deathless Deer), dies at age 60. [18]
- May 27: Robert L. Ripley, American comics artist, cartoonist, entrepreneur and anthropologist (Ripley's Believe It or Not!), dies at the age of 58 from a heart attack.[19]
June
- 10 June: John T. McCutcheon, American political cartoonist and occasional comics artist (Bird Center), dies at age 79. [20]
July
October
- October 8: Monte Barrett, American comics writer (Jane Arden), dies at age 52. [22]
November
December
- December 3: Frank Miller, American comics artist (Barney Baxter), dies from a heart attack at the age of 51.[25]
- December 7: Bovil, Swedish painter, illustrator, sculptor and comics artist (Tusen Och en Natt), dies at age 39.
- December 11: Clifford K. Berryman, American cartoonist (Remember the Maine, Drawing the Line in Mississippi), dies at the age of 80.
First issues by title
- Buster Bunny, cover dated November, published by Standard Comics
- Girl Comics, cover-dated October, published by Timely Comics
- Girls' Love Stories, cover dated August–September, published by DC Comics
- Heart Throbs, cover-dated August, published by Quality Comics
- Kid Colt Outlaw, cover-dated May, published by Timely Comics
- Superboy, cover-dated March/April, published by DC Comics
- Torchy, cover-dated November, published by Quality Comics
Initial appearances by character name
- Pow Wow Smith in Detective Comics #151 (September), created by Don Cameron and Carmine Infantino - DC Comics
- Dr. Edward Clariss - Reverse Flash in Flash Comics #104 (February), created by John Broome and Joe Kubert - DC Comics
Sources
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- "Wally Fawkes". lambiek.net. Retrieved May 12, 2020.
- Casey Ruggles at Don Markstein's Toonopedia. Archived from the original on March 8, 2015.
- "Jules Feiffer". lambiek.net. Retrieved May 12, 2020.
- Assouline, Pierre (2009) [1996]. Hergé, the Man Who Created Tintin. Charles Ruas (translator). Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press.
- Peeters, Benoît (1989). Tintin and the World of Hergé. London: Methuen Children's Books. ISBN 978-0-416-14882-4.
- "Pepo". lambiek.net. Retrieved May 12, 2020.
- Gravett, Paul, "1001 Comics You Must Read Before You Die", Universe, page 145.
- "Vic Herman". lambiek.net. Retrieved May 12, 2020.
- Franco Fossati, I grandi eroi del fumetto, Gramese, 1990, pp. 178–179
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