Events and publications
Year overall
Myron Fass founds Eerie Publications and M. F. Enterprises
In Italy, while the success of Satanik generates several black comics with female protagonists (Samantha, Masokis, Super women, Jena), all short lived, the writer and publisher Renzo Barbieri launches the first explicitly erotic comics (the spy-story Goldrake, the peplum Messalina, the swashbuckler Isabella).
January
January 1: The final episode of Theo Fünke Kupper's De Verstrooide Professor is published. January 4: Greg and Hermann's Bernard Prince makes his debut. January 8: The final issue of the Italian comics magazine Il Vittorioso is published. January 9: For the first time since 1952 a new episode of Will Eisner's The Spirit is published. January 9: in the French magazine Vaillant, debut of the series Le Grêlé 7/13, by Lucien Nortier and Roger Lécureux, with a young maquisard as protagonist. January 18: in Le journal de Tintin, Concerto pour pilotes by Jean Graton. January 21: The final episode of Pieter Kuhn's Kapitein Rob is published. The artist died one day earlier. January 22: The first issue of the British comics magazine Lady Penelope is published. It will run until 13 December 1969. Adventure Comics (1938 series) #340 – DC Comics – The first appearance of Computo by writer Jerry Siegel and artist Curt Swan. Hawkman (1964 series) #11 – DC Comics – The first appearance of the Shrike by writer Gardner Fox and artist Murphy Anderson House of Mystery (1951 series) #156 – DC Comics – First Dial H for Hero by writer Dave Wood and artist Jim Mooney Peter Cannon, Thunderbolt (1966 series) #1 – Charlton Comics – The first appearance of Peter Cannon, Thunderbolt by creator Pete Morisi
February
February 5: The first issue of the British comics magazine Smash is published. It will run until April 1971. February 6: Bob West's Theophilus makes its debut. It will run until 19 April 2002. February 10: Francis' Marc Lebut et son Voisin debuts in Spirou, where it will run for 20 years. February 27: Dick Cavalli's Winthrop makes its debut, after debuting under the different name Morty Meekle on 9 January 1956. The series will run until 1994. In Quino's Mafalda Miguelito makes his debut. The first episode of Max Bunker and Roberto Raviola (Magnus) 's Gesebel is published. It will run until October 1967. Vibranium makes its first Marvel Universe appearance, in Daredevil #13 Adventure Comics (1938 series) #341 – DC Comics – Triplicate Girl (Luornu Durgo) becomes Duo Damsel after Computo destroys one of her selves. Journey into Mystery (1952 series) #125 – Marvel Comics – Final issue of the series. Becomes Thor with next issue Justice League of America (1960 series) #42 – DC Comics – Metamorpho refuses membership in the Justice League Showcase (1956 series) #60 – DC Comics – The first Silver-Age appearance of the Spectre by writer Gardner Fox and artist Murphy Anderson Fightin' Air Force, with issue #53, is canceled by Charlton.
March
March 1: The first episode of José Miguel Heredia's Perro Mundo is published. Adventure Comics (1938 series) #342 – DC Comics – Star Boy is expelled from the Legion of Super-Heroes. Challengers of the Unknown (1958 series) #48 – DC Comics – Doom Patrol cross-over Doom Patrol (1964 series) #102 – DC Comics – Challengers of the Unknown cross-over Fantastic Four (1961 series) #48 – Marvel Comics – First appearance of the Silver Surfer and Galactus by writer Stan Lee and artist Jack Kirby Green Lantern (1960 series) #43 – DC Comics – First appearance of Major Disaster by writer Gardner Fox and artist Gil Kane Justice League of America (1960 series) #43 – DC Comics – First appearance of the Royal Flush Gang by writer Gardner Fox and artist Mike Sekowsky Tales of Suspense (1959 series) #75 – Marvel Comics – first appearance of Sharon Carter and Batroc the Leaper by writer Stan Lee and artists Jack Kirby and Dick Ayers Thor (1952 series) #126 – Marvel Comics – Title becomes Thor. Previously Journey into Mystery Fist issue of the photo comics Killing (Pino Ponzoni editor), written by Luigi Naviglio, that fits into the genre of Italian black comics, but with higher doses of sex and violence.