1950 in comics

none Notable events of 1950 in comics. Events and publications January January 22: The final episode of Charles M. Schulz' Li'l Folks is published.https://www.lambiek.net/artists/s/schulz.htm Charles M. Schulz lambiek.net February 2, 2021 January 30: The first episode of Mickey Mouse, Eega Beeva and the Mook Treasure by Bill Walsh and Floyd Gottfredson is published. The story, published at the height of the Cold War, is overly anti-communist and portrays the villain Peg-Leg Pete as a Soviet officer. In Walt Disney's Comics and Stories Carl Barks creates the Donald Duck story Rip Van Donald, a parody of Rip Van Winkle. Joker Comics (1942 series) #40 - Timely Comics February February 9: Marc Sleen's version of De Lustige Kapoentjes makes its debut in 't Kapoentje.https://www.lambiek.net/artists/s/sleen.htm Marc Sleen lambiek.net May 12, 2020 February 9: in Spirou, first strip of Les chapeaux noirs, by Andrè Franquin. February 10: first issue of Akim by Roberto Renzi and Augusto Pedrazza (Edizioni Tomasina). February 20: Elliot Caplin and John Cullen Murphy's Big Ben Bolt debuts. February 23: Bob De Moor's Monsieur Tric (Meester Mus) makes its debut in Tintin.https://www.lambiek.net/artists/d/de-moor_bob.htm Bob de Moor lambiek.net February 3, 2024 Captain America's Weird Tales (1941 series) #75 – Timely Comics – (After issue 75, the series will be cancelled for 4 years and then rename back to Captain America Comics) Venus (1948 series) #8 – Timely Comics March March 10: in Tintin magazine, the first chapter of Destination moon by Hergè appears in print. March 16: Barry Appleby's The Gambols makes its debut.https://www.lambiek.net/artists/a/appleby_b.htm Barry Appleby lambiek.net May 12, 2020 March 21: Carl Barks' story Ancient Persia is published. March 23: In Tintin magazine the first chapter of The mystery of the great pyramid, by Edgar P. Jacobs appears in pint. March 31 : in Vaillant, debut of the series Jean et Jeannette, by Jacques Souriau, Jean Ollivier e Roger Lécureux, story of two French children in the Second World War.Bibliographie de Jean et Jeannette https://www.bdoubliees.com/series/je/jean_et_jeannette.htm 2025-10-31 www.bdoubliees.com Syd Shores and Stan Lee's Tex Taylor is cancelled by Atlas with issue #9. Black Rider debuts with issue #8, taking over the numbering of Western Winners — Atlas Comics Cowboy Romances (1939 series) #3 – Timely Comics – Renamed to Young Men Foodini (1950 series) #1 - Helnit Publishing True Western (1939 series) #2 – Timely Comics – Renamed to True Adventures April April 1: The Nero story De Hoed van Geeraard de Duivel is first published in the newspapers. Halfway the story the main cast member Madam Pheip makes her debut. April 8: Marc Sleen's Doris Dobbel makes its debut.Smet, Jan en Auwera, Fernand, "Marc Sleen", Standaard Uitgeverij, 1985. April 14: The first issue of the British comics magazine Eagle is published. It will run (in two incarnations) until 1994. In its first issue Frank Hampson's Dan Dare and Frank Humpris' Jeff Anold make their debut. Crypt of Terror debuts with issue #17 (April/May cover date), continuing the numbering of Crime Patrol — EC Comics Foodini (1950 series) #2 - Helnit Publishing The Vault of Horror debuts with issue #12 (April/May cover date), continuing the numbering of War Against Crime — EC Comics Trail of the unicorn, by Carl Barks. Topolino e I grilli atomici (Mickey Mouse and the Atomic Crickets) by Guido Martina and Angelo Bioletto is first published in the Italian Disney comics magazine Topolino. In this story Mickey Mouse and Goofy meet the Seven Dwarfs. May Andrea Lavezzolo and EsseGesse's Kinowa makes its debut. Weird Fantasy debuts with issue #13 (May/June cover date), continuing the numbering of A Moon, A Girl... Romance; analogously, The haunt of fear debuts with issue #15, continuing the numbering of Gunfighter and Weird science replaces Saddie Romances— EC Comics Foodini (1950 series) #3 - Helnit Publishing Joker Comics (1942 series) #41 - Timely Comics True Adventures (1939 series) #3 – Timely Comics – Renamed to Men's Adventures Venus (1948 series) #9 – Timely Comics June June 28: first issue of Zenit, collection of Western comics made in Italy (Edizioni Audace)Italiano Guida Fumetto Guida Fumetto Italiano https://www.guidafumettoitaliano.com/guida/testate/testata/7831 https://web.archive.org/web/20250514175051/https://www.guidafumettoitaliano.com/guida/testate/testata/7831 2025-05-14 2025-10-31 www.guidafumettoitaliano.com After having received a letter of complaint from Hilda Terry in October 1949 the National Cartoonists Society allows female cartoonists too as members. Terry, Barbara Shermund and Edwina Dumm are the first women to become members of their society.http://www.tcj.com/ The Comics Journal Tucker Stone May 12, 2020 Cancellation of Gian Giacomo Dalmasso and Ingam (Enzo Magni)'s Pantera Bionda. Wild about flowers, by Carl Barks Young Men (1939 series) #4 – Timely Comics July In The Haunt of Fear, the mascot character The Old Witch makes her debut, designed by Graham Ingels.https://www.lambiek.net/artists/i/ingles.htm Graham Ingels lambiek.net In Four Color Comics, Carl Barks' Vacation time. July 27: Bob De Moor's Barelli makes his debut in Tintin.https://bdoubliees.com/tintinbelge/annees/1950.htm Tintin année 1950 bdoubliees.com May 12, 2020 August August 25: In the album The Blood Pact, Tex Willer marries the Indian squaw Lylith (who will die within a year).Il salto del diavolo https://ubcfumetti.magazineubcfumetti.com/tx/7.html 2025-10-31 ubcfumetti.magazineubcfumetti.com August 28: in a strip on L’Humanitè, Pif le chien meets for the first time his antagonist, the cat Hercule.RetroNews.fr - Le site de presse de la BnF https://www.retronews.fr/journal/lhumanite/28-aug-1950/2/21c0d10c-c78f-4e86-899a-d0ea6b79df1c 2025-11-07 www.retronews.fr Foodini (1950 series) #4 - Helnit Publishing, Final Issue Joker Comics (1942 series) #42 - Timely Comics, Final Issue Men's Adventures (1939 series) #4 – Timely Comics Strange Adventures #1 – DC Comics September September 4: Mort Walker's Beetle Bailey makes its debut. Walker Mort Mort Walker Alf Thorsjö Beetle Bailey 1950–1952 2008 Egmont Kärnan AB/Checker Book Publishing Group 978-1-933160-71-9 191244495 6 Though the original comic strip is set at college and will only be set at a military base in March 1951.https://www.lambiek.net/artists/w/walker.htm Mort Walker lambiek.net May 12, 2020 September 5: The Nero story Moea Papoea is first published in the newspapers. Halfway the story the main cast member Petoetje makes his debut. September 7: Hergé falls into a clinical depression and goes on a rest cure to Switzerland. For 18 months no new The Adventures of Tintin episodes appear in the eponymous Tintin magazine.* Tintin and the World of Hergé Peeters Benoît Benoît Peeters 1989 Methuen Children's Books London 978-0-416-14882-4 https://books.google.com/books?id=P97GQgAACAAJ September 14: In the Donald Duck story A Financial Fable by Carl Barks Scrooge McDuck is seen swimming in his money for the first time.https://books.google.com/books?id=YM0koT-ENLsC&q=%22money+bin%22+Scrooge&pg=PR9 Carl Barks: Conversations 9781578065011 Barks Carl 2003 Univ. Press of Mississippi September 15: The first issue of the Dutch comics magazine Grabbelton is published, a supplement of De Katholieke Illustratie. it will last until 4 September 1954.https://www.lambiek.net/aanvang/grabbelton.htm Grabbelton www.lambiek.net May 12, 2020 September 24: Kreigh Collins' Mitzi McCoy changes its title to Kevin the Bold. It will continue under this title until 1968, whereupon it changes to another title, Up Anchor, and continues until 1972.https://www.lambiek.net/artists/c/collins_kreigh.htm Kreigh Collins lambiek.net October 2, 2022 Young Men (1939 series) #5 – Timely Comics October Tales from the Crypt debuts with issue #20 (October/November cover date), continuing the numbering of Crypt of Terror — EC Comics First issue of Boys’ ranch by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby (Harvey comics) In Vaillant, the PCF’s weekly magazine for the younger, Fils de Chine (Sons of China), by Roger Lécureux and Paul Gillon, a fictionalized account of the Long March. October 2: Charles M. Schulz' Peanuts appears for the first time in seven US newspapers. In the first episode Charlie Brown makes his debut (although he originated in Schulz' previous series Li'l Folks). October 4: In Charles M. Schulz' Peanuts the character Snoopy makes its debut.https://books.google.com/books?id=hnuQBQAAQBAJ&q=marmaduke+october+1954&pg=PA153 Comics through Time: A History of Icons, Idols, and Ideas [4 volumes]: A History of Icons, Idols, and Ideas 9780313397516 Keith Booker M. 2014-10-28 Abc-Clio October 14: The first issue of the Belgian Disney comics magazine Mickey Magazine is published. It will run until September 1959. October 19: The Spirou et Fantasio story Il y a un sorcier à Champignac by André Franquin with Jean Darc is prepublished in Spirou and marks the debut of the Count of Champignac.franquin.com Une vie – 1951 http://www.franquin.com/bio/1951.php French 2017-12-18 2011-06-09 https://web.archive.org/web/20110609153458/http://www.franquin.com/bio/1951.php dead November November 13: Jack Kent's King Aroo makes its debut. November 27: Dick Brooks's The Jackson Twins makes its debut.https://www.lambiek.net/artists/b/brooks_dick.htm Dick Brooks lambiek.net May 12, 2020 Men's Adventures (1939 series) #5 – Timely Comics December Marvel Boy (1950 series) #1 – Timely Comics Young Men (1939 series) #6 – Timely Comics Specific date unknown The U.S. comics industry comes to a turning point. The Golden Age of Comic Books is ending, and the rise of crime comics, romance comics, Western comics, horror comics, and science fiction comics signals the start of the new decade. In films, Destination Moon is the first color science fiction film, and the first big budget science fiction film since Things to Come in 1936. DC Comics is quick to pick up on the renewed interest of the public in science fiction, and a still from Destination Moon is cover of the new science fiction comic book Strange Adventures, soon joined by a companion book Mystery in Space. EC Comics is at the height of their brief trajectory, with science fiction comics Weird Science and Weird Fantasy. Dell Comics publishes a large number of Western comics, dedicated to celebrities such as Roy Rogers and Gene Autry. The comic strip reprint comics, which had started the comic book phenomenon, are disappearing. Ace Comics, Magic Comics, and King Comics end their long runs. Attempts to bring out single character comic strip reprints, such as Flash Gordon, Steve Canyon, and Terry and the Pirates fold after short runs. It rhymes with lust by Arnold Drake and Leslie Waller, first American graphic novel (St. John). In Greece Themos Andreopoulos establishes the comics magazine Tam-Tam.https://www.lambiek.net/artists/a/andreopoulos_themos.htm Themos Andreopoulos Births March March 6: Al Milgrom, American comic book writer (Archie Comics, Spider-Man, X-Men, co-creator of Firestorm). March 14: Dudu Geva, Israeli comics artist, cartoonist and caricaturist (The Duck), (d. 2005).https://www.lambiek.net/artists/g/geva-dudu.htm Dudu Geva lambiek.net May 11, 2020 July July 6: John Byrne, English-born American comic book writer and artist (Fantastic Four, Superman, Doom Patrol, The Amazing Spider-Man).Miller John Jackson John Jackson Miller June 10, 2005 Comics Industry Birthdays http://cbgxtra.com/knowledge-base/for-your-reference/comics-industry-birthdays dead https://web.archive.org/web/20110218031356/http://cbgxtra.com/knowledge-base/for-your-reference/comics-industry-birthdays February 18, 2011 August 6, 2023 Comics Buyer's Guide Iola, Wisconsin mdy-all November November 25: Chris Claremont, American comic book writer (X-Men, Fantastic Four, John Carter, Warlord of Mars). Specific date unknown Zyx, Canadian cartoonist and comics artist (Sombre Vilain), (d. 2015).https://www.lambiek.net/artists/z/zyx.htm Zyx lambiek.net May 11, 2020 Elliot S. Maggin, American writer (Action Comics, Detective Comics, Superman).March 3, 2016 Who's Who bio http://www.bailsprojects.com/bio.aspx?Name=MAGGIN,+ELLIOT December 23, 2023 https://web.archive.org/web/20160303211247/http://www.bailsprojects.com/bio.aspx?Name=MAGGIN,+ELLIOT 2016-03-03 Deaths May May 18: Jenö Jeney, Hungarian illustrator, editorial cartoonist and comics artist, dies at age 75.https://www.lambiek.net/artists/j/jeney_jeno.htm Jenö Jeney lambiek.net October 7, 2020 Specific date unknown: Mario Silva Ossa, aka Coré, Chilean illustrator and comics artist (Quentin el Aventurero), dies at age 37.https://www.lambiek.net/artists/c/core.htm Coré lambiek.net May 12, 2020 June June 7: W.O. Wilson, South African-American comic artist (The Richleigh Family, The Wish Twins, Madge the Magician's Daughter), dies at age 84.https://www.lambiek.net/artists/w/wilson_wo.htm W.O. Wilson lambiek.net September 28, 2022 July July 9: Salvador Bartolozzi, Spanish illustrator, theatrical set designer, comics artist (Pipo y Pipa, Pinocho contra Chapete) and publisher (founder of the children's magazine Pinocho), dies at age 68.https://www.lambiek.net/artists/b/bartolozzi_salvador.htm Salvador Bartolozzi lambiek.net May 12, 2020 July 26: Eduard Thöny, Austrian-German cartoonist, dies at age 84.https://www.lambiek.net/artists/t/thony_eduard.htm Eduard Thöny lambiek.net May 12, 2020 August August 1: Raoul Thomen, Belgian-French comics artist (Marius, comics based on Charlie Chaplin), dies at age 83.https://www.lambiek.net/artists/t/thomen.htm Raoul Thomen lambiek.net May 12, 2020 October October 2: J. Carlos, Brazilian comics artist (Lamparina, Juquinha, Almofadinha & Melindrosa), dies of a brain stroke at age 66.https://www.lambiek.net/artists/c/carlos_j.htm J. Carlos lambiek.net May 12, 2020 October 9: Harry Moyer, A.K.A. Hy Moyer, Canadian comics artist (Nothing But The Truth, Java Bean), dies in a car accident at age 65 or 66.https://www.lambiek.net/artists/m/moyer_hy.htm Hy Moyer lambiek.net April 20, 2024 Specific date unknown Fred Nankivel, American illustrator and comics artist (Sing Sing Sid, Uncle Mun), dies at age 63 or 64.https://www.lambiek.net/artists/n/nankivel_fred.htm Fred Nankivel lambiek.net May 12, 2020 Charles W. Saalberg, American illustrator and comics artist (The Ting-Lings), dies at age 84 or 85.https://www.lambiek.net/artists/s/saalburg_charles.htm Charles W. Saalburg lambiek.net May 12, 2020 First issues by title Foodini (March) Helnit Publishing Marvel Boy, cover dated December, by Stan Lee and Russ Heath, published by Timely Comics Quatre aventures de Spirou et Fantasio by André Franquin, Dupuis franquin.com Une vie – 1950 http://www.franquin.com/bio/1950.php French 2007-06-17 2011-05-14 https://web.archive.org/web/20110514180918/http://www.franquin.com/bio/1950.php dead Strange Adventures cover dated August–September, published by DC Comics. Initial appearances by character name Akim, in Akim il figlio della giungla #1 (February), created by Roberto Renzi and Augusto Pedrazza, Edizioni Tomasina. Deadshot in Batman #59 (June), created by David Vern Reed and Lew Schwartz – DC Comics King Faraday in Danger Trail #1 (July), created by Robert Kanigher and Carmine Infantino – DC Comics Kinowa, in Kinowa #1 (May), created by Andrea Lavezzolo and EsseGesse, Editoriale Dardo. . Knight in Batman #62 (December), created by Bill Finger and Dick Sprang – DC Comics Lana Lang in Superboy #10 (September), created by Bill Finger and John Sikela – DC Comics Marvel Boy in Marvel Boy #1 (December), created by Stan Lee and Russ Heath – Timely Comics References