March 18: The first issue of the British comics magazine Bimbo is published. It will run until 22 January 1972.[4] In the first issue
Bob Dewar's Bimbo makes its debut.
June 18: Paperino e il calumet della pace (Donald and the ceremonial pipe), by
Luciano Bottaro is prepublished in Topolino. It marks the comeback of
Joe Piper, twenty years after his creation by
Floyd Gottfredson.
July 1: The first episode of the Dutch funny animal comic Wipperoen (Whipper in English) by Raymond Bär von Hemmersweil and Jan van Reek is published. The series will run until 1974.[9][10]
In the Uncle Scrooge story The Midas Touch by
Carl Barks the evil sorceress
Magica De Spell and the Scrooge's secretary Miss Typefast make their debut. The same month billionaire
John D. Rockerduck makes his debut too, in the story Boat Buster.
February 11:
Kate Carew, American caricaturist and comics artist (The Angel Child), dies at age 91.[22]
February 27: Nate Collier, American animator, illustrator and comics artist (Our Own Movies, Kelly Kids, Can It Be Done?, The Professor), dies at age 77.[23]
April
April 1: William Sharp, Austrian-American comic artist (made newspaper comic adaptations of novels), dies at age 60.[24]
May
Specific date unknown: Art Krenz, American writer and sports cartoonist, dies at age 55 or 56.[25]
June
June 2:
Chéri Hérouard, French illustrator and comics artist (drew comics for La Semaine de Suzette and La Vie Parisienne), dies at age 80.[26]
June 30: Félix Jobbe-Duval, French illustrator and comics artist, dies at age 82.[27]
August 9: Joseph Hémard, French illustrator and comics artist, dies at age 81.[29]
September
September 20: Nándor Honti, aka Bit, Hungarian painter, illustrator and comics artist (Nagyapó Mozgószínháza, Tréfás Természetrajz, Séta Álomországban), dies at age 83.[30]
Specific date in September unknown:
Julius Stafford Baker (Sr.), British comics artist (Casey's Court, Tiger Tim), dies at age 91 or 92.[31]
December
December 6:
Ralph O. Yardley, American comics artist (Have You Seen Alonzo?, Do You Remember?), dies at age 83.[32]
Max A. Otto, German comics artist (Stups), dies at age 61.[36]
Raúl Roux, Uruguayan-Argentine comics artist (Rulito, el Gato Atorrante, Hombres qua han Conquistado Fama, Fiero a Fierro, Cuentos de Fogón, Lanza Seca), dies at age 59.[37]
^McAvennie, Michael (2010). "1960s". In Dolan, Hannah (ed.). DC Comics Year By Year A Visual Chronicle.
Dorling Kindersley. p. 103.
ISBN978-0-7566-6742-9. This classic Silver Age story resurrected the Golden Age Flash and provided a foundation for the Multiverse from which he and the Silver Age Flash would hail.