Events and publications
Year overall
January
January 11: The Crab with the Golden Claws premiers, a stop-motion film directed by Claude Misonne (pseudonym for Simone Swaelens). This is the first animated film based on Hergé's popular comics series The Adventures of Tintin. January 13: Milton Caniff's Steve Canyon makes its newspaper debut. January: Jean-Michel Charlier and Victor Hubinon's Buck Danny makes its debut in Spirou. Captain America Comics (1941 series) #60 - Timely Comics Marvel Mystery Comics (1939 series) #80 - Timely Comics Eerie, a one-shot horror comic book published by Avon Periodicals as Eerie #1. The book holds the distinction of being the first true, stand-alone horror comic book and is credited with establishing the horror comics genre.
February
March
March 10: Marten Toonder's Tom Poes is resyndicated in the Dutch newspapers De Nieuwe Rotterdamsche Courant and De Volkskrant after being interrupted since the Liberation in 1944. Captain America Comics (1941 series) #61 - Timely Comics Marvel Mystery Comics (1939 series) #81 - Timely Comics The first episode of Harry Hanan's comic series Louie is published. The series will run until 1976.
April
April 3: The Flemish comics magazine 't Kapoentje makes its debut. It wil run until 1989. April 11: Peyo first publishes his comic strip Johan in La Dernière Heure, which will become Johan and Peewit in 1954. April 14: The first issue of the Filipino comics magazine Bulaklak Magazine is published. April 14: Charles Kuhn's newspaper comic Grandma makes its debut. April 26: Marten Toonder's Tom Poes story De Watergeest is first published. Halfway the story major Dirk Dickerdack and Markies de Canteclaer make their debut. Captain America Comics (1941 series) #62 - Timely Comics Human Torch Comics (1940 series) #26 - Timely Comics Sub-Mariner Comics (1941 series) #22 - Timely Comics The first episode of Lib Abrena's Ipo-Ipo is published.
May
Marvel Mystery Comics (1939 series) #82 - Timely Comics
June
June 8: The first episode of Charles M. Schulz' Li'l Folks is published. It will run until 1950. June 21: Marten Toonder's Tom Poes story De Talisman is first published. Halfway the story the antagonist Joris Goedbloed makes his debut. He will later also become a recurring character in Panda. June 29: Marc Sleen first publishes his gag cartoon series De Ronde van Frankrijk, in which he chronicles every tournament of the annual Tour de France. He will continue this series up and until July 1964. The Dutch comics magazine Sjors, which was already published between 1936 and 1942, reappears but every two weeks instead of each week. Sub-Mariner Comics (1941 series) #23 - Timely Comics
July
July 1: Willy Vandersteen leaves newspaper De Nieuwe Gids and takes his successful comics series Suske en Wiske with him. About 25.0000 readers instantly subscribe to De Standaard, the paper where the series will be published from now on. July 23: Mars Ravelo and Nestor Redondo 's superheroine Varga (renamed Darna from 1950 on) makes her debut in Bulaklak Magazine. Captain America Comics (1941 series) #63 - Timely Comics Human Torch Comics (1940 series) #27 - Timely Comics Marvel Mystery Comics (1939 series) #83 - Timely Comics
August
August 24: In one episode of Will Eisner's The Spirit the Spirit is temporarily blinded and remains to for several episodes. Malang's Kosme the Cop makes its debut.
September
September 22: In the Mickey Mouse story The Man of Tomorrow by Billy Walsh and Floyd Gottfredson Eega Beeva makes his debut. Hoppy the Marvel Bunny, with issue #15, canceled by Fawcett Comics.
October
October 2: Marc Sleen's comic strip De Avonturen van Detectief Van Zwam starring Detective Van Zwam makes its debut in the newspaper De Nieuwe Gids. Halfway the story Van Zwam meets Nero who will soon become his sidekick and eventually the main protagonist of the series, which will then be known as The Adventures of Nero. It will run uninterruptedly until 2002 and is drawn singlehandedly by Sleen for its first 45 years. Captain America Comics (1941 series) #64 - Timely Comics Human Torch Comics (1940 series) #28 - Timely Comics Marvel Mystery Comics (1939 series) #84 - Timely Comics