1959 in comics

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Notable events of 1959 in comics. See also List of years in comics.

Publications and events[]

January[]

  • January 11: After two years of publication Charles M. Schulz' It's Only a Game comes to an end.[1]
  • January 31: Philip Mendoza's The Adventures of Katie Country Mouse debuts. It will run until 1964.[2]
  • Mr. District Attorney, with issue #67 (January/February cover date), cancelled by DC.
  • In the Italian Disney magazine Topolino Paperiade (The Ducks’ Iliad), based on a script by Guido Martina, drawings by Luciano Bottaro, is first published. That same year, Martina carries out Disney versions of other classics (Der ring des Nibelungen, Cantar de mio Cid, The Adventures of Saturnin Farandoul).

March[]

  • March 10: In the Italian magazine Topolino the story Mickey Mouse in the Delta Dimension, by Romano Scarpa is prepublished, which marks the debut of Atomo Bleep-Bleep and the return of Doctor Einmug, who hadn't been featured in 20 years.
  • March 15: After 38 years of publication Russ Westover's Tillie the Toiler is discontinued.[3]
  • March 27: In Charles M. Schulz' Peanuts Lucy van Pelt opens up her psychiatric booth.[4]
  • March 28: The final episode of Phiny Dick, Ton Beek, Eiso Toonder and Andries Brandt's Birre Beer is published.[5]
  • March: Flash Comics, a series which ended in 1949 is rebooted and marks the debut of The Flash by John Broome and Carmine Infantino.
  • Carl Barks' Uncle Scrooge story The Flying Dutchman is first published.
  • In Italy, Renzo Barbieri debuts as writer and editor with the western series Timbergek.

May[]

June[]

  • June 6: Leo Baxendale's The Three Bears makes its debut in The Beano.[6]
  • June 21: The first issue of the Belgian children's magazine Zonnekind, a sister publication of Zonneland, is published. In the first issue Nonkel Fons and Gray Croucher's Rikske en Fikske makes its debut.[7]

July[]

August[]

  • August 10: In the Italian magazine Topolino, the first episode of Paperino e l’isola del Tesoro (Donald and the Treasure Island) by Luciano Bottaro is published, inaugurating the cycle of the “pirate ducks” narratives,[9] and The man from Oola-Oola, by Romano Scarpa, are published.
  • August 19: In Tintin magazine, The Michel Vaillant story Le circuit de la peur (The fear's circuit) by Jean Graton is first published.

September[]

  • September 14: The new The Adventures of Nero story De Zoon van Nero starts in Het Volk, which marks the birth of Nero's son Adhemar.
  • September 24:The final issue of the Belgian Disney comics magazine Mickey Magazine is published.
  • September: Harvey Kurtzman's graphic novel Harvey Kurtzman's Jungle Book is first published.

October[]

  • October 6: In Charles M. Schulz' Peanuts Linus van Pelt first expresses his love for Miss Othmar.[4]
  • October 10: After 27 years of publication Norman Pett's Jane comes to an end.[10]
  • October 17: After 23 years of continuous publication Bill Connor and Steve Dowling's Belinda comes to an end.[11]
  • October 17: The British comics magazine The Comet ceases to exist and merges into the new magazine Tiger.[12]
  • October 17: After 42 years of publication Sidney Smith's The Gumps comes to an end.[13]
  • October 19: ' The Perishers makes its debut.
  • October 24: The British boys' story paper The Hotspur is transformed into a comics magazine: The New Hotspur. It will run until 24 January 1981.[14]
  • October 26: In Charles M. Schulz' Peanuts Linus van Pelt first talks about the Great Pumpkin.[4]
  • October 29: The first issue of the French comics magazine Pilote is published, which will become one of the best-selling magazines ever in only a few years. In its first issue Astérix by René Goscinny and Albert Uderzo (introducing Asterix, Obelix, Getafix the druid, Vitalstatistix the chieftain and Cacofonix the bard [15]), Tanguy et Laverdure by Jean-Michel Charlier and Albert Uderzo and Jean-Michel Charlier and Victor Hubinon's Redbeard make their debut.[16]

November[]

  • November 5: Willy Vandersteen's De Rode Ridder, based on the novels by Leopold Vermeiren, makes its debut.[17][18]
  • November 10: In the Italian magazine Topolino The Sacred Spring of Seasons, by Romano Scarpa is prepublished.

December[]

  • December 10: In the 1130th issue of the Belgian magazine Spirou a small supplement Smurfs comic book is added named Le Voleur de Schtroumpfs, in which Gargamel and Azrael make their debut.[19]
  • December 16: Raymond Macherot's Clifton makes its debut.[20]
  • December 24: Jean Roba and Maurice Rosy's Boule et Bill makes its debut in Spirou.[21]
  • Carl Barks' Donald Duck story The Wax Museum is prepublished in Walt Disney's Comics and Stories.

Specific date unknown[]

Deaths[]

January[]

  • January 30: Hans Füsser, German caricaturist and comics artist (Jackel und Bastel), dies at age 60.[23]

March[]

  • March 12: F. Verdugo, Spanish journalist and comics artist, passes away at age 84.[24]

April[]

  • April 15: Harry B. Martin, American comics artist (Weatherbird, It Happened in Birdland), dies from cerebral thrombosis at age 85.[25]

May[]

  • May 1: Reginald Arkell, British novelist, playwright and comics writer (scripted Bosch the Soldier by Alfred Leete[26]), dies at age 76.[27]

July[]

  • July 2: R. F. Schabelitz, American illustrator and comics artist, dies at age 72.[28]
  • July 6: George Grosz, German painter, caricaturist, and illustrator, dies at age 65.
  • July 31: Nikolai Kogout, Russian painter, illustrator and poster designer (some of his posters make use of sequential narratives), dies at age 67.[29]

August[]

  • August 4: Eric Ericson, American comics artist and cartoonist (The Grounded Gremlin, Herkimer Fuddle), dies at age 45.[30]
  • August 5: Frank Godwin, American comics artist and illustrator (Connie, Rusty Riley, continued Roy Powers, Eagle Scout), dies at age 69 from a heart attack.[31]
  • August 11: Matt Baker, American comics artist (Phantom Lady, Flamingo) dies at age 37.[32]
  • August 11: Bert Wymer, British comics artist and archeologist (continued ), dies at age 68.[33]

September[]

  • September 28: Gerard Hoffnung, German-British cartoonist and musician, dies at age 34 from a cerebral haemorrhage.[34]
  • September 29: Bruce Bairnsfather, British comics artist and cartoonist (Old Bill), passes away at age 72 from bladder cancer.[35]

October[]

November[]

December[]

  • December 7: Peter Beekman, Dutch comics artist (Hansje, Ansje en de Meeuw, Rare, Maar Ware Commentaren), dies at age 48.[38]
  • December 9: Gene Carr, American comics artist (Lady Bountiful, The Bad Dream That Made Bill A Better Boy), dies at age 78.[39]

Specific date unknown[]

  • Wasdale Brown, British illustrator comics artist (drew the off-model replacement comic for Rupert Bear in 1933), dies at age 56 or 57.[40]
  • Will Donald, Australian comics artist (Fashion Plate Fanny), passes away at age 85 or 86.[41]

First issues by title[]

Initial appearance by character name[]

DC Comics[]

References[]

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  2. ^ "Philip Mendoza". lambiek.net. Retrieved May 12, 2020.
  3. ^ "Don Markstein's Toonopedia: Tillie the Toiler". www.toonopedia.com. Retrieved 29 January 2019.
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  5. ^ "Phiny Dick". lambiek.net. Retrieved 29 January 2019.
  6. ^ "Leo Baxendale". lambiek.net. Retrieved 29 January 2019.
  7. ^ "Gray Croucher". lambiek.net. Retrieved 29 January 2019.
  8. ^ "Peyo". lambiek.net. Retrieved May 12, 2020.
  9. ^ "L'isola del tesoro di Bottaro – Luciano Bottaro cartoonist" (in Italian). Retrieved 2019-10-18.
  10. ^ "Norman Pett", Artists, Lambiek.
  11. ^ "Tony Royle". lambiek.net. Retrieved 29 January 2019.
  12. ^ "Complete AP / Fleetway Comic Index". www.dandare.info. Retrieved 29 January 2019.
  13. ^ "Don Markstein's Toonopedia: The Gumps". www.toonopedia.com. Retrieved 29 January 2019.
  14. ^ McAleer, Joseph (1992). Popular Reading and Publishing in Britain: 1914-1950. ISBN 9780198203292.
  15. ^ "Albert Uderzo". lambiek.net. Retrieved May 12, 2020.
  16. ^ Jump up to: a b c "Pilote (1959-1989)". www.lambiek.net. Retrieved 29 January 2019.
  17. ^ "Willy Vandersteen". lambiek.net. Retrieved May 12, 2020.
  18. ^ "1959: De Rode Ridder wordt als stripheld bekend gemaakt". roderidder.net. Retrieved 29 January 2019.
  19. ^ "Peyo". lambiek.net. Retrieved 29 January 2019.
  20. ^ BDoubliées. "Tintin année 1959" (in French).
  21. ^ "Jean Roba". lambiek.net. Retrieved 29 January 2019.
  22. ^ "Dick Millington". lambiek.net. Retrieved May 12, 2020.
  23. ^ "Hans Füsser". lambiek.net. Retrieved May 12, 2020.
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  33. ^ "Bert Wymer". lambiek.net. Retrieved 29 January 2019.
  34. ^ https://www.lambiek.net/artists/h/hoffnung_gerard.htm
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  36. ^ "Carl Ed". lambiek.net. Retrieved 29 January 2019.
  37. ^ "Hal Forrest". lambiek.net. Retrieved November 14, 2020.
  38. ^ "Peter Beekman". lambiek.net. Retrieved 29 January 2019.
  39. ^ "Gene Carr". lambiek.net. Retrieved 29 January 2019.
  40. ^ "Wasdale Brown". lambiek.net. Retrieved 8 November 2020.
  41. ^ "Will Donald". lambiek.net. Retrieved 29 January 2019.
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  43. ^ Irvine, Alex; Dolan, Hannah (2010). "1950s". DC Comics Year By Year A Visual Chronicle. Dorling Kindersley. p. 93. ISBN 978-0-7566-6742-9. In "The Rock of Easy Co.!" written by Robert Kanigher and Bob Haney, with art by Ross Andru, the reader was introduced to Sgt. Frank Rock of Easy Company.
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