1942 in comics

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Notable events of 1942 in comics. See also List of years in comics.

Events and publications[]

Year overall[]

  • Joe Simon and Jack Kirby leave Timely Comics and move to National Comics (now DC Comics).[1]

January[]

February[]

  • February 10. In Italy, after the outbreak of the war with USA, Tuffolino, by Federico Petrocchi and Pier Lorenzo De Vita, replaces Topolino (Mickey Mouse), until then the only American comic tolerated by the Fascist censure. The new comic, a shameless plagiarism of the Disney original, with human characters instead of animals, lasts until December 1943.[3]

March[]

Spring Issue[]

April[]

May[]

June[]

Summer Issue[]

  • All Flash Quarterly (1941 series) #5 - DC Comics. In this issue the villain trio Winky, Blinky, and Noddy make their debut.
  • (1941 series) #4 - DC Comics
  • Leading Comics (1941 series) #3 - DC Comics
  • Wonder Woman (1942 series) #1 - DC Comics, which marks the first stand-alone series of William Moulton Marston and Harry G. Peter's Wonder Woman. In its first issue supervillain Ares makes his debut.
  • World's Finest Comics (1941 series) #6 - DC Comics

July[]

August[]

September[]

Fall Issue[]

  • All Flash (1941 series) #6, previously All Flash Quarterly - DC Comics
  • (1941 series) #5 - DC Comics
  • Leading Comics (1941 series) #4 - DC Comics
  • Wonder Woman (1942 series) #2 - DC Comics
  • World's Finest Comics (1941 series) #7 - DC Comics

October[]

November[]

December[]

Winter Issue[]

Specific date unknown[]

  • The final issue of the Flemish comics magazine Wonderland is published, a supplement to the newspaper De Dag.[19]
  • The first episode of Carl Grubert's The Berrys is published. It will run until 1974.
  • Bovil creates his comic strip Tusen Och en Natt, based on Arabian Nights. It will run until his death in 1949.[20]
  • Vic Herman creates Winnie the Wac.[21]
  • Philip Mendoza draws The Early Life of Winston Churchill, which is the earliest biographical comic about Winston Churchill.[22]
  • During the internment of Japanese Americans Bennie Nobori draws the comic strip Yankee Reporter for the prisoners in camp Topaz in Central Utah.[23]


Deaths[]

April[]

  • April 1: Charles H. Wellington, American comics artist (Pa's (Imported) Son-In-Law), passes away at age 48.[24]

May[]

  • May 12: George William Wakefield, British comics artist (worked for Film Fun, made comics based on Laurel & Hardy), dies from a stroke at age 54.[25]
  • May 14: René Bull, Irish comics illustrator and comics artist, passes away at the age of 79.[26]

July[]

  • July 11: Antonio Salemme, Italian comics artist (Il Principe Azzurro), dies at the age of 48 or 49.[27]
  • July 21: Giove Toppi, Italian comics artist (Topo Lino, Renato Gallo), dies at age 53.[28]

August[]

  • August 10: Albert Guillaume, French caricaturist, illustrator and poster designer who also made some occasional pantomime comics, dies at age 69.[29]

September[]

  • September 11: Horst Rosenthal, German-born French comics artist (made a series of text comics while incarcerated in Gurs internment camp, among them a comic strip starring Mickey Mouse named Mickey au Camp de Gurs), is executed in Auschwitz at the age of 27.[30]

November[]

  • November 7: J. Norman Lynd, American comics artist (Family Portraits, continued Vignettes of Life), dies at age 63.[31]
  • November 11: Billy DeBeck, American comics artist (Barney Google), dies at the age of 52.[32]
  • November 26: Larry Whittington, American comics artist (Fritzi Ritz) dies in a car accident at the age of 39.[33]

Specific date unknown[]

  • Joe Devlin, American comics artist (assisted Rube Goldberg, continued Looy Dot Dope and worked for Quality Comics), dies at an unknown age.[34]
  • Emil Reinicke, German comics artist (published in Fliegende Blätter), passes away at age 82 or 83.[35]
  • Josiah Walker, aka Jos Walker, British comics artist (Sexton Blake), dies at age 55.[36]

First issues by title[]


Initial appearances by character name[]

References[]

  1. ^ Wallace, Daniel (2010). "1940s". In Dolan, Hannah (ed.). DC Comics Year By Year A Visual Chronicle. Dorling Kindersley. p. 40. ISBN 978-0-7566-6742-9. DC scored a coup by luring to their ranks the popular artist and writer team of Jack Kirby and Joe Simon, who [in 1942] introduced the Newsboy Legion, the Guardian, and the Boy Commandos.
  2. ^ Wallace "1940s" in Dolan, p. 40: "Wonder Woman...took the lead in Sensation Comics following a sneak preview in All Star Comics #8."
  3. ^ "Guida Fumetto Italiano". www.guidafumettoitaliano.com. Retrieved 2021-07-26.
  4. ^ "Marten Toonder".
  5. ^ "Reynold Brown".
  6. ^ "Sjors (Van de Rebellenclub)".
  7. ^ "Basil Wolverton".
  8. ^ "Chris Ishii". lambiek.net. Retrieved March 27, 2021.
  9. ^ "Tom Okamoto". lambiek.net. Retrieved March 27, 2021.
  10. ^ "Jack Ito". lambiek.net. Retrieved March 27, 2021.
  11. ^ "Hal Forrest".
  12. ^ "Hergé".
  13. ^ "George Baker".
  14. ^ Keith Booker, M. (2014-10-28). Comics through Time: A History of Icons, Idols, and Ideas [4 volumes]: A History of Icons, Idols, and Ideas. ISBN 9780313397516.
  15. ^ "Carl Barks".
  16. ^ "Jack Hannah".
  17. ^ "Guy Depière". lambiek.net. Retrieved November 2, 2021.
  18. ^ "Eugen Semitjov".
  19. ^ KOUSEMAKER, Kees en Evelien, "Wordt Vervolgd- Stripleksikon der Lage Landen", Uitgeverij Het Spectrum, Utrecht, Antwerpen, 1979, page 235.
  20. ^ "Bovil".
  21. ^ "Vic Herman".
  22. ^ "Philip Mendoza".
  23. ^ "Bennie Nobori". lambiek.net. Retrieved March 27, 2021.
  24. ^ "Charles H. Wellington".
  25. ^ "George William Wakefield". lambiek.net. Retrieved May 18, 2020.
  26. ^ "René Bull".
  27. ^ "Antonio Salemme".
  28. ^ "Giove Toppi".
  29. ^ "Albert Guillaume".
  30. ^ "Horst Rosenthal".
  31. ^ "J. Norman Lynd".
  32. ^ "Billy DeBeck".
  33. ^ "Larry Whittington".
  34. ^ "Joe Devlin".
  35. ^ "Emil Reinicke".
  36. ^ "Jos Walker".
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